So, I bought a wine today...

WINE TALK
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with no labels of any kind. As soon as I saw this baby with its wax capsule and caked on cellar dust, I just had to buy it. When held up to the light, one can tell it’s a red wine of sorts. Any ideas as to what I just purchased?
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Looks like you keep your car about as clean as your bathroom…

Ill say Mid eighties-mid level Bdx, but how will we ever know???.

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Take a pic of it in front of something bright white so we can see the color of the wine. You know, like your toilet…oh, wait…

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What does the stamp on the wax capsule say?

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Is there a signet imprint on top of the cork?

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That’s pretty much what I was thinking. It’ll be fun to see if the cork can give up any of its secrets when I open it later this week.

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Unfortunately, it’s just a blob. It appears as though it may have resembled a grape cluster at one point in time.

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they charged $29.99 for that!? basements struck back!

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Man, I wish this was a basement find. This was actually an above ground cellar with temp and humidity controls.
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Hey, even if you don’t open it today scrap off the wax and see if you can read the cork thru the glass.

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Good idea. I’ll give it a go and report my findings.

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Looks familiar. Cardinale?

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OMG, is that the floor of your passenger seat . . . where you place that cute girl from Bern’s?!

Disgraceful! Take the $29.99 and get the POS cleaned, my man!!!

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Radicchio.

In case you were trying to remember what was missing in your salad during dinner.

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You bought a completely unknown bottle of wine for $30? There must have been some context to make you think it was a good wine – explain the context.

I guess the only way you’ll ever know is to the extent the cork says a producer and maybe vintage on the cork. More likely, it will just be a producer, and you won’t know what the wine or vintage was.

Talk about blind tasting . . .

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I highly doubt that it’s Bordeaux…definitely not from the 80’s. All the bottles were the standard Bdx blt…no tapering. Can’t ever recall something pre t2k with wax…

It’s not a Dunn either…blt wouldn’t be tapered…

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Looking at your other pick, I see some other similar looking btls with wax tops in the glass cabinet. Probably one of those…

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Are there any markings on the bottle, like on the bottom which are molded into the glass? How many seams on the bottle, 1, 2, 4, 5?

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You purchased freedom from prejudice and bias. Enjoy [cheers.gif]

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Absolutely!