Corked/Spoilt Ports - Name and Shame

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Quarles Harris 1977: Corked. From a batch of 2 bottles bought some two years ago. Bottle no.1 was also corked. :cry:
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RonnieRoots wrote:Quarles Harris 1977: Corked. From a batch of 2 bottles bought some two years ago. Bottle no.1 was also corked. :cry:
To bad, I've opened several of these and they've all been fine
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Calem 1985
Opened at the Crusting Pipe on August 26 2010; sadly quite badly tainted. The only time I have tried this port so I hope this is not the last time.
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Vesuvio 1999...2 out of 3 bottels.....with bad cork
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Another bottle of Gould Campbell 1977, Oporto bottled. I really don't have a good strike rate with these. I think I'm probably 9 out of 10 corked.
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Warre 1958 - not sure who the bottler was. Perhaps Derek can identify the bottler.
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AHB wrote:Warre 1958 - not sure who the bottler was. Perhaps Derek can identify the bottler.
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dow 1977

slightly corked, bit of cardboard with a strange bitterness/astringency.

no fruit at all, all burnt wood.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=39923#p39923]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:SW95 LBV, dark red, 90% opacity. Initially I thought bottle stink, but as it grew in strength this resolved into being corked. Foul.

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Quarles Harris 1980 from half bottle.
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Partly-corked Grahams 83.
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1977 Dow on 25 April, 2011. So badly corked that even I could taste it.
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A half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV, bought from Tesco.

I think this is the first time I have had a corked bottle that has a T-cork.
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DRT wrote:A half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV, bought from Tesco.

I think this is the first time I have had a corked bottle that has a T-cork.
Strike 2 !!!!

The second half bottle from six from the same purchase. Not as badly corked as the first one, but enough to make me not drink it. Hopefully this is just a concentrated bad batch of corks as I have a ton of this stuff in storage. Thankfully all of it was bought from a different store to these corked ones so hopefully not from the same batch.
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Both a noval 63 and a warres 63 both appeared heat damaged.
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Smith Woodhouse 1977 at the QH / SW / GC triple vertical in November 2011.
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1996 Niepoort LBV 375 mL bottle
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Fonseca Crusted (bottled 2006)
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Last night we had a bottle of Bomfim 1979 that was quite badly corked.

So we opened a bottle of Bomfim 1978 instead - only to find that was also corked.

And then there was a general discussion about whether it was coincidence that we also experience a high level of TCA taint in the Dow 1977...
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Just opened my only bottle of Bomfim 1978 - yup! Corked!!

Bomfim 1978 and 1979 will be added to my list of ports not to buy.
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hi! I ',m new round here.
Anyway, the first two out of our case of 1983 Warre's were both pretty badly corked (TCA)
third one seems ok, just opened, but that's a bad start. Imay jsut detect a hint of taint in this thirdone, but it's hard to tell as I've never had a good bottle of this stuff, and I'm paranoid.
it's drinkable, with some decent deep berry flavours, and a hint of alcohol. Not as complex as I'd expect but a. it's just opened 30 minutes ago , and b. there may be a hint of cork suppressing it!
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richardhod wrote:hi! I ',m new round here.
Anyway, the first two out of our case of 1983 Warre's were both pretty badly corked (TCA)
third one seems ok, just opened, but that's a bad start. Imay jsut detect a hint of taint in this thirdone, but it's hard to tell as I've never had a good bottle of this stuff, and I'm paranoid.
it's drinkable, with some decent deep berry flavours, and a hint of alcohol. Not as complex as I'd expect but a. it's just opened 30 minutes ago , and b. there may be a hint of cork suppressing it!
That's bad news. Warre 1983 is not a port that I thought had a particular problem with TCA - my experience is about 1 in 12 have been tainted.
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Krohn 2007 lbv, smells and tastes musty and very little fruit.
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At the Taylor offline on 22 March 2013 the 1977 and 1983 were both corked - and the 1927 was very odd, although not corked.
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Now that's what I call a spoilt bottle...

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