Few things are more annoying than opening a very special bottle and finding it to be corked. This one was very special, a Latour 1966; and beneath the stench of cork lurked a quite beautiful wine.
Backup was pretty wonderful, a Sociando Mallet 1982. Unclassified it may be, but forty three years later it was just at its apogee, an extraordinary wine from an extraordinary vintage. Tertiary was just kicking in, leather, spice, a dominant underlay of cassis and violets. Finish was excellent, and it had none of the rusticity I have seen in more recent vintages.
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Wonderful! Well, about the Sociando. An incredible vintage of that wine. Sorry about the Latour, that’s painful.
Sociando is a long lived wine and I hope it made up for the major disappointment of the Latour.
I am out of 82 Sociando but do have some 86 that I should get into. Sadly, recent tastings by others indicate a possible problem with the corks on that wine too!
I had a corked 86.
I feel your pain. Ask me about bottle after bottle of '82 and '83 Margaux! Or please don’t :).
Great about the Sociando
Maybe you just need to charge the Latour a little more?
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