From the Cellar
November 13, 2013: Folie a Deux 2005 Menage a Trois - Red (California)
14 Nov 2013- Details
- Category: Uncorked Tonight
I brought this wine into my wine class to prove a point and ended up proving quite a different one. I had opened a bottle of this California blend a few months ago and found a synthetic cork under the capsule and a nasty tasting wine under the "cork" (so bad in fact that I never wrote it up, but did make a private note of the incident). Now I know this isn't suppose to be a long-lasting wine, it was a fluke that I found it in the first place, buried in my cellar - sad part is ... there was a companion bottle with it. And so I took it to class to show what an oxidized wine tastes like ...
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