Just picked up a case of wine from WineBid. Some great stuff – 2001 Rinaldi Brunate, 2000 Monte Bello, 1973 D’Olivieras Bual, and 4 Rieslings among others. Was stoked to open this 2020er Falkenstein Kabinett Trocken. One of my favorite QPR Mosel producers, and probably one of my favorites in general.
I’m not super sensitive to TCA but as soon as I smelled the cork, I knew something was up. Palate wasn’t terrible at first, but it smelled like a cardboard box that’d been sitting in the rain.
Few minutes went on and it go so much worse… palate also went within 30 minutes. Thankfully it’s not super expensive but man, I’m so sad. I don’t think I’d ever had a corked bottle, now it’s 2 in the last 3 weeks (Caduceus Arizona Nebbiolo was the other).
Hope your Friday wines start better than mine!
by LeadingFollowing2564
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Hey nice Rolex. You’re a man of taste.
I’m all about agglomerate corks or screwcaps at this point. I switched over to agglomerates at the winery I work for shortly after starting as winemaker and we have had basically no issues with corked wines or bottle variation since then.
Yeah Falkenstein can definitely have some bad bottles in the mix, they are a low intervention producer after all. Hopefully your next will be safe!
I’ve had way too many corked falks.
My condolences, when clean this is a great wine 😥
Which Caduceus was corked? Just curious.
I think about 1.5% of my bottles have been corked, that’s out of a few thousand recorded. Granted, the large majority are post 2000 vintage.
That’s typically 💣. Must be bad bottle.
Damn that is a bummer. Love that producer.
Falkenstein are notorious for using shitty corks. Often I’ve had experiences like yours, where the wine is literally tasting like the cheap, bleached, cardboard-like cork looks. So have many others in the industry. It’s sad to see a producer not take their wines serious enough to value good corks