{"id":1287,"date":"2010-09-27T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2010-09-27T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:45:22","slug":"a-couple-of-disappointments-one-corky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/a-couple-of-disappointments-one-corky","title":{"rendered":"A couple of disappointments, one corky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1288\" title=\"P1050128-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1050128-1-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get all that many cork-tainted wines these days. Part of this is that I&#8217;m opening quite a few bottles sealed with alternative closures, but also the proportion of tainted natural corks seems to have dropped a little. But I had a big disappointment with a bottle I opened yesterday &#8211; one that I was really looking forward to trying. It was a Pic St Loup from Cazeneuve, and it was really nastily corked.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a picture of the offending cork above. Again, a common feature with badly corked wines seems to be big lenticels (the pores in the cork bark that allow gas exchange) running through the wine-contacting face of the cork. Could it be that these harbour the microbes making the haloanisoles that taint the wine?<\/p>\n<p>The other disappointment was the latest vintage, 2007, of the Bellingham Bernard Series Basket Pressed Syrah from South Africa. At \u00a310 in Sainsbury&#8217;s, the 2006 was a real hit. The 2007 has lovely fruit, but far, far too much new oak. Such a shame. Over-oaking is almost as bad as cork taint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get all that many cork-tainted wines these days. Part of this is that I&#8217;m opening quite a few bottles sealed with alternative closures, but also the proportion of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}