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Delaforce quinta da Corte 91 disintegrating corks
Posted: 22:09 Mon 29 Apr 2013
by mpij
Bought some bottles from Majestic Wine a couple of months ago. Have found that on opening the cork disintegrates when i try to pull it out. Port has still been good but would sugest better to drink now rather than keeping. Thankfully I have a good supply of coffee filter papers(as I make coffee with cafetiere or espresso machine perhaps I should describe them as port filter papers) as second atempt at cork removal always ends up with remains ending up in bottle.
Re: Delaforce quinta da Corte 91 disintegrating corks
Posted: 22:23 Mon 29 Apr 2013
by RAYC
How annoying.
I decanted one of these last year and the cork on that bottle was reasonably solid (picture of cork
here), with just the final half centimetre coming apart as it came up through the neck. Unfortunately, while the cork was sound, the wine itself was duff!
Could it be that the stock you purchased from Majestic had been stored standing up for some time (causing the corks to dry)?
Re: Delaforce quinta da Corte 91 disintegrating corks
Posted: 22:27 Mon 29 Apr 2013
by mpij
Quite possible, will drink my 1 remaining and not buy more (unless going cheap)
Re: Delaforce quinta da Corte 91 disintegrating corks
Posted: 22:33 Mon 29 Apr 2013
by RAYC
Looking around, another report (and picture) of a duff Corte 91 cork from Majestic stock is
here
Also a comment on cellartracker
here and a reference to an "exploding cork" on flickr
here.
My first guess would still be that this was a Majestic-specific issue due to their storage (or the storage of the stash before they acquired it)...but could be a wider issue...