Is it good? Is it spoiled?
The bottle is not opened.

Thanks for the help!

Ginger

"Ginger" > wrote in message
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: Is it good? Is it spoiled?
: The bottle is not opened.
:
: Thanks for the help!
:
: Ginger

Hi Ginger, the presence of sediment does not indicate whether the wine is
good or bad or spoiled. As long as it was stored at a relatively constant
cool temperature it should be fine. However the only way of knowing is to
open it up and give it a taste.
Let us know what you think of it.
Tim

Ginger wrote:
> Is it good? Is it spoiled?
> The bottle is not opened.
>
The presence or absence of sediment in the wine isn't really an
indication of anything one way or another. Sediment forms in
the creation of all wines. The winemaker uses a variety of
techniques to lessen how much of it goes into the bottle but
unless they outright filter it (which people contend has it's
own problems), some always gets in the bottle.

The sediment doesn't taste all that great itself, but it really
doesn't affect the rest of the bottle. A host will decant wine
with sediment to preclude it from inadvertantly being dumped into
a guest's glass, but when it's just family we just deal with it.