Salut/Hi Bi!!,

le/on 31 Jan 2005 11:48:42 -0800, tu disais/you said:-

>>>I'm very skeptical about tastings which report failure rate? of up
>to 30%.

>>Why? Because it's not your personal experience. It isn't min?e
>either, but
>>then we may be lucky/careful in our choice of supplier!

>Ian,
>I'm not sure how being careful with the supplier would mitigate the
>cork issue since the supplier wouldn't be able to discern TCA until the
>bottle was opened.

Careless language on my part, trying to be too brief. Despite what Michael
says, I think there is evidence that some growers/bottlers are particularly
careful about their corks and that they get a statistically significant
lower proportion of corked wines. That's what I meant - with the
concommittant thought that retailers and restaurateurs are in a fairly good
position to know whose wines are more prone, whose less. Remember also that
I buy nearly all my wines from the grower so in my mind, supplier=grower.

>FWIW, screwcaps aren't perfect either. I'm seeing more and more
>incidents of seal failures.

Any idea what proprtion?


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