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The cap was sound. Feedback from the winemaker (on another bottle of that vintage) was that she was comfortable with the stylistic variation. Apparently in that year they used an oak variation which may have had an effect.
I think the oddity of my bottle was accentuated at our tasting by all the other wines being stylistically similar to each other.
Should add that Howard Park have offered to replace the faulty bottle with either the same of another vintage.