Volunteers sought..
Posted: 19:21 Sun 10 Sep 2017
Following on from a thread I started on another site - https://www.fortheloveofport.com/ftlopf ... =1&t=40628
- Could I ask for volunteers to do something rather simple?
Next time you open a bottle and find it to be unmistakably corked, please don't throw it down the sink, but put it back in the bottle it came from, reseal the bottle with a fresh cork or T stopper - anything other than the original cork.. - and put it away for a few years (making a note about the date and degree of taint observed)
I am hypothesising - very tentatively at this stage, and based on a not terribly scientific statistical review of tasting notes from the past decade; that TCA when dissolved in wine (or at least, in Port) may not be chemically stable, and that when removed from the source, wine may be capable of recovery.
In the interests of getting clear results it would be better if this were done with wines that show full-on corked symptoms, rather than observed possibly traces.
This might be either a revelation or a false dawn, but there is only one way to find out - and little to lose..
- Could I ask for volunteers to do something rather simple?
Next time you open a bottle and find it to be unmistakably corked, please don't throw it down the sink, but put it back in the bottle it came from, reseal the bottle with a fresh cork or T stopper - anything other than the original cork.. - and put it away for a few years (making a note about the date and degree of taint observed)
I am hypothesising - very tentatively at this stage, and based on a not terribly scientific statistical review of tasting notes from the past decade; that TCA when dissolved in wine (or at least, in Port) may not be chemically stable, and that when removed from the source, wine may be capable of recovery.
In the interests of getting clear results it would be better if this were done with wines that show full-on corked symptoms, rather than observed possibly traces.
This might be either a revelation or a false dawn, but there is only one way to find out - and little to lose..