Mark Lipton > wrote:

>> I had hoped that screw tops might eliminate TCA but yesterday I
>> think I detected it in a screwtop NZ wine: Grove Mill
>> Marlborough Riesling, 2005. It was not undrinkable but there
>> was a most unusual over taste. The label claims that it could
>> be cellared until 2013, but not by me!

> Keep in mind that corks aren't the only source of TCA, just the
> most common one. Barrels can also pick up a TCA contamination

JFTMOR: a riesling -- from wherever it might come -- probably
never ever has seen a barrel even by distance. (I know that a few
exceptions exist, thank you.)

> and (most disastrously) even entire winery facilities can.

But then the whole batch should be tainted. One single bottle does
not tell much.

M.