TN: 2014 Caves Duplessis Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

[Keith_Levenberg]

I opened a highly respected Red Burgundy the other day where the cork slipped out like a rocket. It had a seam all the way up one side of the cork as well. Wine was still OK, but not what it should have been.

Moral of the story - bad corks happen to everyone.

Cork slipping out like a rocket sounds like it might have gotten a literal propulsive assist from CO2 as so many red Burgs have these days.

[David_Bu3ker]

I opened a highly respected Red Burgundy the other day where the cork slipped out like a rocket. It had a seam all the way up one side of the cork as well. Wine was still OK, but not what it should have been.

Moral of the story - bad corks happen to everyone.

Cork slipping out like a rocket sounds like it might have gotten a literal propulsive assist from CO2 as so many red Burgs have these days.

Nope. Just really loose. No CO2 at all. It was a 2002.

[B_Buzzini]

Well…I “had” to open my last 2015 MdT because I saw that it had a protruding capsule. Seepage was evident…the cork slide out way too easy, and was really soaked and spongy. The wine is a LOT better than the last two undrinkable bottles of angry, disjointed, chemical, alc fummy hot messes. Although not as great as the first bottle I had in 2018. Looks like I got a bad batch of these, which is too bad because they are wines to lay down…totally built for the long haul…but there is NO way these faulty corks will let you do that! I can’t explain the angry and disjointed juice in the past couple bottles, and can’t blame the cork for that, as the first bottle had a bad cork as well, but the wine was excellent? The weird thing is…no signs of ox in any of these bottles…which you would think would happen with faulty seeping corks?

I don’t know…