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Brown, boiled and horrid.

A damaged bottle. Hopefully the other two are not the same.

You don't say.

LGTrotter wrote:You don't say.

You only get to say "I told you so" if I open one that hasn't been boiled but is over the hill and tastes like chewing a twig. This one would have tasted the same whether it was a LB67 or a Lafite 1982. It has either been in a kitchen cupboard above the cooker or a window for the past 30 years, which doesn't bode well for the other bottles. The only hope I can hold onto is that the other two have perfect labels, whereas this one was almost fully decomposed with just a few flakes of paper remaining on the bottle.

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:You don't say.

You only get to say "I told you so" if I open one that hasn't been boiled but is over the hill and tastes like chewing a twig.

Now did I say 'I told you so'? Oh look, I just did.

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:You don't say.

You only get to say "I told you so" if I open one that hasn't been boiled but is over the hill and tastes like chewing a twig. This one would have tasted the same whether it was a LB67 or a Lafite 1982. It has either been in a kitchen cupboard above the cooker or a window for the past 30 years, which doesn't bode well for the other bottles. The only hope I can hold onto is that the other two have perfect labels, whereas this one was almost fully decomposed with just a few flakes of paper remaining on the bottle.

hmm, not sure if the lables help you for a good drinkable wine...

Have you checked the colour on the Leoville Bartons 67?

WS1 wrote:hmm, not sure if the lables help you for a good drinkable wine...

Have you checked the colour on the Leoville Bartons 67?

I obviously haven't been clear.

1. I bought three bottles of Leoville Barton 1967

2. One of the bottles had a very poor degraded label and the other two are pristine.

3. I opened the bottle with the degraded label and the wine was spoiled, probably through bad storage.

4. I am hoping that the other two bottles might have been stored differently based on the fact they look better than the one I opened.

5. I will probably be wrong and the other two will also be undrinkable.

DRT wrote:

WS1 wrote:hmm, not sure if the lables help you for a good drinkable wine...

Have you checked the colour on the Leoville Bartons 67?

I obviously haven't been clear.

1. I bought three bottles of Leoville Barton 1967

2. One of the bottles had a very poor degraded label and the other two are pristine.

3. I opened the bottle with the degraded label and the wine was spoiled, probably through bad storage.

4. I am hoping that the other two bottles might have been stored differently based on the fact they look better than the one I opened.

5. I will probably be wrong and the other two will also be undrinkable.

Use a torch and check the colour. If the colour is a nice clear red there is light at the end of the tunnel. If completly black or dirty etc. there is a high probabilty that the other two bts follow the merits of the first bt.