How to recork your own '82 Lafite

WINE TALK
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Guess we may see these on wine bid soon.

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Ask Rudy, but he specialized in DRC.

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Holy crap Batman.

A $50 bottle of 1982 lafite.

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Well maybe not wine bid, but get your own recorked bottle on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RP-100-Legendary-1982-Chateau-Lafite-Rothschild-Professional-re-cork-/141267255070?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20e42f3f1e

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OMG

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He must get paid by the hour. I’ve never seen anyone take that long to open a bottle.

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+1

I don’t even know what to say.

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2003 corks? Isn’t that the peak of concern with taint?

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somebody get that man a Durand!

If it were my wine for personal consumption, never to be re-sold, I guess I can see the value of the process. One must realize that the value of those bottles of wine falls precipitously the moment he cuts that foil and pierces the cork.

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Looked like a bunch of gunk fell in the bottle when he jammed that blue stopper in there.

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The 82s are heat damaged based on the capsule and cork. Kinda painful to watch.

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I can only assume from them posting that video and putting those stickers on there, that they think what they are doing is perfectly fine.

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I don’t get what the big deal is??? He said that there is “some guarantee” that the bottles have “maximum authenticity”… :astonished:

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Given that they are not hiding anything I don’t see why it is not fine. They seem to take decent care of the wine and are not re-conditioning the wine in any way. As I mentioned, they are destroying the value of the wine, but that is their choice.

If I want to paint a beautiful Ferrari an ugly color of chartreuse, it doesn’t make it wrong, just ugly… (ok, maybe it is wrong…but hopefully you get my point)

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Low humidity in Eastern Florida cellars? I gues climate change is real!

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I much prefer my '82 Lafite to be recorked by some guy wearing cargo shorts* in his mother’s dining room over the work they do at the Chateau. Gives it a more homey feel to the experience.

*I think - I couldn’t bear to watch more than 15 seconds of the video once I realized what he was going to do.

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It was a painful video to watch.

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Looks like a Lamborghini Miura to me:)

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A Lamborghini Miura in a nice color [wow.gif]