Made my point thank you. At the prices these bottles fetch losing 20% to
bad corkage is a major loss. 9 bottles of wine that some could be over
$200 is a big loss.

In article >,
Michael Pronay > wrote:

> Lawrence Leichtman > wrote:
>
> > My percentage of corked wines from France now approaches 15%
> > since 1990 [...]
>
> Last Wednesday we tasted 45 Bordeaux from 2001 and 2002. 9 of them
> - exactly 20% - were corked, from heavily to almost indiscernible.
> The latter was the case for Léoville Las Cases 2001, scoring 90
> for the first, 94 for the second bottle.
>
> M.