Our first glass tasted differently than what we had expected and when I finished pouring our second glasses I felt a little jingle in the bottle. Needless to say we didn’t finish our second glass.
by simple_caesar
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szakee
why?
Doge________________
did you push it in? or was it there originally?
RemoveBeforeFight
You actually found a bottle of wine around your cork. Win!!
stabzmcgee
Sorry to say… It’s corked.
investinlove
There’s two possibilities here.
So, when we’re on the bottling line there’s a person who makes sure every bottle has a cork in it before it goes in the capsule spinner. Either the cork got pushed into the bottle on the first application, and then the bottle was picked up and put back in the cork queue, or…
The corker malfunctioned and pushed 2 corks into one bottle, and the first one inserted went into the wine.
I like the second option as a production winemaker with a lot of bottling lines in my past.
Understanding-Fair
Seen this once before where only the foil was holding the wine in. Wine was over 20 years old. Turned out to be a great bottle of wine.
rwsen22
A little tricky to make out through the glass, but I’m surprised the cork doesn’t appear to be stained red?
SIR2480
That’s a wined cork
Evan_802Vines
“Cork it again!”
Impossible-Charity-4
Once received a bottle of Chardonnay (William Hill IIRC…was over a decade ago) that had what looked to be a 6in x 3in piece of corrugated plastic inside of a perfectly corked and capped bottle. We kept it behind the counter for shits and giggles. I’ve always wondered how it was possible, but I know the size of the mystery plastic was magnified by the liquid and glass. In any case, it sure was interesting.
Also received nearly a pallet of BV Coastal cab, over half of which shipped with capsules but no corks at all. We couldn’t figure out where the leak was coming from as they were on a horizontal rack and cursory inspection showed nothing obvious until I noticed a couple beads forming around the little pinholes at the top of the capsule. I felt it with my thumb, which went right through the foil revealing the lack of cork. The whole case sat sideways for over a week before discovering this. It’s wild that it shipped from one side of the country to other like that unnoticed.
10 Comments
why?
did you push it in? or was it there originally?
You actually found a bottle of wine around your cork. Win!!
Sorry to say… It’s corked.
There’s two possibilities here.
So, when we’re on the bottling line there’s a person who makes sure every bottle has a cork in it before it goes in the capsule spinner. Either the cork got pushed into the bottle on the first application, and then the bottle was picked up and put back in the cork queue, or…
The corker malfunctioned and pushed 2 corks into one bottle, and the first one inserted went into the wine.
I like the second option as a production winemaker with a lot of bottling lines in my past.
Seen this once before where only the foil was holding the wine in. Wine was over 20 years old. Turned out to be a great bottle of wine.
A little tricky to make out through the glass, but I’m surprised the cork doesn’t appear to be stained red?
That’s a wined cork
“Cork it again!”
Once received a bottle of Chardonnay (William Hill IIRC…was over a decade ago) that had what looked to be a 6in x 3in piece of corrugated plastic inside of a perfectly corked and capped bottle. We kept it behind the counter for shits and giggles. I’ve always wondered how it was possible, but I know the size of the mystery plastic was magnified by the liquid and glass. In any case, it sure was interesting.
Also received nearly a pallet of BV Coastal cab, over half of which shipped with capsules but no corks at all. We couldn’t figure out where the leak was coming from as they were on a horizontal rack and cursory inspection showed nothing obvious until I noticed a couple beads forming around the little pinholes at the top of the capsule. I felt it with my thumb, which went right through the foil revealing the lack of cork. The whole case sat sideways for over a week before discovering this. It’s wild that it shipped from one side of the country to other like that unnoticed.