This bottle was received as a gift from a friend but after removing the black paper I'm not sure if what I see here will have affected the quality of the wine? The black seal is wax. Thx for your thoughts
by MisterJeus
5 Comments
Biljettensio
That has been cooked. Return it.
Cheap_Put2778
Yep. This happens when wine freezes or gets hot.
Sea-Dingo4135
Yes definitely return.
MisterJeus
Ok, thx for the input.. too bad this happened 😑
chadparkhill
It’s not a good sign for the wine: it has definitely been affected by heat or extreme cold in one way or another. It might be drinkable still in the near future, but I wouldn’t recommend ageing it from this point onwards—too much risk of failure in one way or another.
The real question is: do you have any idea when and how this wine got this way? Has it been in your possession long? Or your friend’s before that? If you were gifted it yesterday _and_ your friend got it from a store the day before _and_ both of you have treated it reasonably (i.e. didn’t leave it in a hot car or whatever) while it was in your respective custodies, then you can and should get your friend to take it back to the store. If your friend has been holding onto it for months, or if you have, and you have no idea when this damage was incurred, then it’s hard to imagine that any wine store would accept a return on an item that quite likely got cooked well after it left their custody.
5 Comments
That has been cooked. Return it.
Yep. This happens when wine freezes or gets hot.
Yes definitely return.
Ok, thx for the input.. too bad this happened 😑
It’s not a good sign for the wine: it has definitely been affected by heat or extreme cold in one way or another. It might be drinkable still in the near future, but I wouldn’t recommend ageing it from this point onwards—too much risk of failure in one way or another.
The real question is: do you have any idea when and how this wine got this way? Has it been in your possession long? Or your friend’s before that? If you were gifted it yesterday _and_ your friend got it from a store the day before _and_ both of you have treated it reasonably (i.e. didn’t leave it in a hot car or whatever) while it was in your respective custodies, then you can and should get your friend to take it back to the store. If your friend has been holding onto it for months, or if you have, and you have no idea when this damage was incurred, then it’s hard to imagine that any wine store would accept a return on an item that quite likely got cooked well after it left their custody.