Daughter was doing a curry fritter so I thought lets break out he
sparkling cider that I have kept too long, right oxidized yellow brown .
.. . so I said ok we can move to the main wine for the night a 2002
Trimbach Cuvee Frederik Emile, you guessed it bad cork and oxidized wine
eesh we settled for a St Michelle 2011 Horse Heaven Sauvignon Blanc
which was by comparison excellent in reality it was a nice non
grapefruity SB fresh and acidic and quite nice. As it turned out the
fritters were not as hot as I had thought and the wine was a good match.
though I knew the cider was too old it was a shame about the CFE.
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Joseph Coulter

Joseph Coulter wrote:
> Daughter was doing a curry fritter so I thought lets break out he
> sparkling cider that I have kept too long, right oxidized yellow brown .
> . . so I said ok we can move to the main wine for the night a 2002
> Trimbach Cuvee Frederik Emile, you guessed it bad cork and oxidized wine
> eesh we settled for a St Michelle 2011 Horse Heaven Sauvignon Blanc
> which was by comparison excellent in reality it was a nice non
> grapefruity SB fresh and acidic and quite nice. As it turned out the
> fritters were not as hot as I had thought and the wine was a good match.
> though I knew the cider was too old it was a shame about the CFE.

Eek! I have some of the '02 CFE, too. I hope my cork(s) are in better
shape than yours was. My most sincere sympathies.

Mark Lipton

Glad all ended up good for you Sir. Skunky wine can be tedious. Way some were taught to handle it is take a deep breath and hold it..take a big pull out of the brown paper sack..give a swallow and start breathing again in a bit. Hope you gave that one the old college try before tossing the stuff out.