Some really excellent Chablis and a question about premoxed wines

[Rodrigo_B]

@Howard_Cooper

In fact, has anyone on this thread ever had a corked or premoxed wine from a bottle finished with DIAM. Still trying to learn.

A few Berserkers have had issues with corked wines sealed under DIAM, but I have not found an example of premox under DIAM

Corked wine under Diam?! Is this possible???

I’ve never had a corked or oxidized wine bottled under a Diam cork…until today. 2018 Walter Scott Freedom Hill Chardonnay. The cork is a Diam10. This wine is definitely corked! I couldn’t believe it. Wet rotting cardboard, mustiness, totally muted fruit. All the tell-tale signs were there. Maybe it’s just a bunch of funky reduction? Into the decanter it goes, sat awhile, no improvement at all. Maybe it’s just my nose? I poured a little glass, and nonchalantly passed it to my girlfriend. I didn’…