A Proud Dad - 5 Year Old Points Out Corked Wine

Jason_Hagen · October 14, 2009, 3:05am

So before I head home I ask my wife to open the 05 Jones Family Estate along with the 05 The Sisters. I wanted to taste them blind, side by side. When I walk in the door, my wife says lets me know that Hazel pointed out that one of the wines was corked. Hazel is 5. Sure enough, The Sisters stinks to high heaven. Big bummer since it is a great wine.

Workin on the Estate which is has more structure. Saving half the bottle for tomorrow.

Jason

jdietz · October 14, 2009, 5:02am

Good for Hazel!!! Glad it was your bottle and not mine!! She has great taste…need to get her some avocados… or at least her dad…

What did she think of the Jones???

Daniel_McNiff · October 14, 2009, 3:10pm

don’t you know that you have to be TCA oblivious to get into this biz?

Keith_Levenberg · October 14, 2009, 3:22pm

Nah, the future retailer/sommelier is the kid who goes, “All of us tasted it and it’s perfectly fine.”

Jason_Hagen · October 14, 2009, 4:09pm

Hah. I have had the quite a few times. Most recently I was in Asheville NC at a great restaurant (wine bar) with some co-workers and I ordered and inexpensive Priorat that was badly corked. I had ordered the same wine the day before and it was perfect for the people present. A big new worldish wine that still maintained balance. This second bottle stank up the whole table. I said its corked. He of course began to study the cork. Then took a glass to the manager. He said it is just an old world wine an I wasn’t used to it. So the waiter says, we’ll get you a different bottle but that wine is not corked. Because of the company I was with I just brushed it off but I really wanted to punch both of them in the face.

Jason

Richard_T_r_i_m_p_i · October 14, 2009, 5:19pm

Too Funny…an entrenched tradition carefully passed down through the ages! At a tasting last year, after a most convincing delivery, it took the collective input of 3 winemakers to push the Somm back for a new bottle.

RT

dcornutt · October 14, 2009, 5:47pm

Good job Jason.
A chip off the old block.

Cris_Whetstone · October 14, 2009, 5:51pm

Definitely genetic. Jason’s TCA sniffer always seems to get it before most of us.

Jason Hagen:

Keith Levenberg:

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Nah, the future retailer/sommelier is the kid who goes, “All of us tasted it and it’s perfectly fine.”

Hah. I have had the quite a few times. Most recently I was in Asheville NC at a great restaurant (wine bar) with some co-workers and I ordered and inexpensive Priorat that was badly corked. I had ordered the same wine the day before and it was perfect for the people present. A big new worldish wine that still maintained balance. This second bottle stank up the whole table. I said its corked. He of course began to study the cork. Then took a glass to the manager. He said it is just an old world wine an I wasn’t used to it. So the waiter says, we’ll get you a different bottle but that wine is not corked. Because of the company I was with I just brushed it off but I really wanted to punch both of them in the face.

Rough trip dude?

Jason_Hagen · October 14, 2009, 11:00pm

Nah just bad service. I needed Robo to lean on the restaurant staff

J

Cris_Whetstone · October 15, 2009, 4:10am

Nice one. Threaten them with a raid if you get anymore lip there.

Daniel_Posner · October 15, 2009, 7:57pm

And wine critics

Jason_Hagen · October 16, 2009, 9:47pm

I should mention that Jones is replacing the bottle.

bob_parsons_alberta · October 17, 2009, 7:12am

My daughter in London knows her wines somewhat. This past March I took an elderly Monte Real for dinner. Her son, who is only 10, remarked on the browning on the rim. “Grandad, the wines Mum buys don`t look like that”.