Not just the most expensive but also the most corked: 2006 Guigal Ex Voto white. Only time a wine has been so bad I had to rinse out my mouth to get rid of the taste.
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2012 Chappellet Pritchard Hill cabernet: cork leaked .... didn't catch in time. Wine was terrible.
1990 Aldo Conterno Barolo Granbussia
My Cellartracker note at the time:
Excellent fill, no seepage, clean, solid cork. But the wine was spoiled. The colour and opacity of muddy liquid brown sugar. The nose and palate of shoe polish. A massive disappointment. Purchased at auction from Spectrum. When the bottle arrived I noted that it also had an Acker Merrill auction sticker. And who knows where else it had travelled and how it had been stored. A costly reminder that provenance is everything.
I made the mistake of checking cellartracker....
1988 Ducru Beacaillou
1990 Monsanto Il Poggio
1988 Canalicchio di Sopra Le Gode de Montosoli
2001 Jean-Luc Colombo Les Terres Brulees
2003 Eric Texier Cote Rotie VV
1995 Manzone le Gramolere
1997 Rampolla Sammarco
1998 Fuligni
2000 Lisini
1980 Mastroberadino Taurasi Riserva
1996 Chapoutier les granits blanc
1989 Chapoutier Chante-Alouette blanc
the list keeps going..... too many tears on my keyboard to continue. Even though most of these are auction bottles above, there are a few that i bought direct from winery or on release that were corked like an '01 Alion. As Sunny notes, and has been echoed for years, provenance is everything.
@vinoevelo posted:I made the mistake of checking cellartracker....
1988 Ducru Beacaillou
1990 Monsanto Il Poggio
1988 Canalicchio di Sopra Le Gode de Montosoli
2001 Jean-Luc Colombo Les Terres Brulees
2003 Eric Texier Cote Rotie VV
1995 Manzone le Gramolere
1997 Rampolla Sammarco
1998 Fuligni
2000 Lisini
1980 Mastroberadino Taurasi Riserva
1996 Chapoutier les granits blanc
1989 Chapoutier Chante-Alouette blanc
the list keeps going..... too many tears on my keyboard to continue. Even though most of these are auction bottles above, there are a few that i bought direct from winery or on release that were corked like an '01 Alion. As Sunny notes, and has been echoed for years, provenance is everything.
Wow! Lucky though that none of your California or vintage port bottles were off!
there were a number of cali's as well. my only bottle of Carlisle Gruner Veltliner jumps to mind.
(Cali is a city in Columbia.)
After so much focus on the problems with cork, and at first the rush to artificial ones (which seems to have slowed down), has there been a reduction to this problem in recent years?
Mag of 1982 Dom Pérignon. Flat, sour, brown apple juice.
@The Old Man posted:(Cali is a city in Columbia.)
Colombia
I think it's actually Santiago de Cali.
@jcocktosten posted:Colombia
I always make that mistake.
@Rothko posted:I think it's actually Santiago de Cali.
"Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia."
@The Old Man posted:I always make that mistake.
Me too, which is why I noticed it.
@The Old Man posted:"Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia."
Same source:
"Cali is the shortened form of the official name of the city: Santiago de Cali."
And
"Cali, an informal short form of the name of the US state of California."
@Rothko posted:Same source:
"Cali is the shortened form of the official name of the city: Santiago de Cali."
And
"Cali, an informal short form of the name of the US state of California."
I'm going to have to go in and fix that.
@sunnylea57 posted:... Purchased at auction from Spectrum. When the bottle arrived I noted that it also had an Acker Merrill auction sticker...
One can't help but wonder whether the previous owners of the bottle knew it was bad and chose to sell it to another victim. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits.
My costliest bottle of drain cleaner was a 1967 Lafite Rothschild, also an auction purchase.
82 Mouton Rothschild at a tasting seminar put on by lcbo. The product consultant opened a second bottle. Second one was good. Asked him if he would be in trouble with the boss and he said not to worry, their actual cost was much much less then list price. This was about 12years ago.
Just happened Friday night. 2008 Ponsot Mag. Prior to that 1988 Sass.
The two worst:
1961 Latour (mine, my only bottle)
1929 Lafite (my friend's)
@board-o posted:The two worst:
1961 Latour (mine, my only bottle)
1929 Lafite (my friend's)
Sorry about your bottles, but it's nice to see you posting again, board-o.
Several years ago, a friend of mine brought a 5-ltr Gaja of some sort to another friend's wedding rehearsal dinner. He had gotten it at auction, and it turned out to be horribly maderized.
1993 Ornellaia. Cost about $200 back in 2007ish.
@mneeley490 posted:Sorry about your bottles, but it's nice to see you posting again, board-o.
Thanks mneeley. I love you too!
@mneeley490 posted:Sorry about your bottles, but it's nice to see you posting again, board-o.
And there's some people that say this forum is dead. I'm waiting for Bomba to return.
@The Old Man posted:And there's some people that say this forum is dead. I'm waiting for Bomba to return.
Prefer if you leave.
1995 L'ermita ..
it was painful pouring out
While probably not the most expensive corked bottle I've opened, last night's 1997 Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon hurt nonetheless.
1990 Montrose (wasn’t mine)
That I had paid for, probably a 1985 Jaboulet La Chapelle
Think it was probably the '99 Chapoutier Ermitage de L'Oree. My only bottle. That one hurt.
@vint posted:While probably not the most expensive corked bottle I've opened, last night's 1997 Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon hurt nonetheless.
There was a stellar wine underneath that wet cardboard. 😩
My most costly corked bottle was a 1990 Gaja Barbaresco Costa Russi. I felt a bit ill after opening it.
@sunnylea57 posted:There was a stellar wine underneath that wet cardboard. 😩
My most costly corked bottle was a 1990 Gaja Barbaresco Costa Russi. I felt a bit ill after opening it.
One of my friends started out as big fan of Gaja, late 80's-mid 90's. But then he got a string of corked bottles (different bottlings, different years), so he gave up spending on them.
@mneeley490 posted:One of my friends started out as big fan of Gaja, late 80's-mid 90's. But then he got a string of corked bottles (different bottlings, different years), so he gave up spending on them.
Do you know if anyone else has commented on cork taint issues with Gaja during that period? Or was it just bad luck?
This was the first Gaja Barbaresco I had bought (and likely the last, given the price) and my oldest Gaja. But I’ve had a bunch of 1997 & 2001 Darmagi and 1996 & 1997 Sperss that have all been rock solid.
At a Quebec chalet wine guy weekend, KSC02 brought a 1995 Alvaro Palacios L‘Ermita that was corked. The group still rated it 95, it was still that good.