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redbigot said:
Yes, I find cork taint, premature oxidation, woody/musty/corky flavours all add to my joy of drinking wine. Or not. I do remember the joy on winemakers' faces when they've opened their cork sealed wine for you and found it tainted.

Cork quality has improved in the last 5-10 years, dropping the incidence of taint (yay!), but not the other issues.
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Sorry I should have clarified, I mean the part I enjoy is the set up and actually removing the cork itself, smelling the cork etc. I also keep the corks from notable bottles as a keepsake (often the bottles too of course).

Totally get why you're not a fan though!
 
Ninetails23 said:
Sorry I should have clarified, I mean the part I enjoy is the set up and actually removing the cork itself, smelling the cork etc. I also keep the corks from notable bottles as a keepsake (often the bottles too of course).

Totally get why you're not a fan though!
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Many years ago I used to save the corks and hold competitions to guess how many were in the glass containers. Long gone now.
 

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Does anyone have any views on whether the salvation cases are still worth it?

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Salvation 88.0 - Mixed Case

It’s Salvation time again! When it comes to the Salvation Dozen, here's our guarantee - excellent booze at way under market value. Grab this mystery mix and get 12 wines for under $11 a bottle. That's a no-brainer in our book.
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I see there is a current one available.
 
lukeyyc88 said:
Does anyone have any views on whether the salvation cases are still worth it?

www.vinomofo.com

Salvation 88.0 - Mixed Case

It’s Salvation time again! When it comes to the Salvation Dozen, here's our guarantee - excellent booze at way under market value. Grab this mystery mix and get 12 wines for under $11 a bottle. That's a no-brainer in our book.
www.vinomofo.com www.vinomofo.com

I see there is a current one available.
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Probably depends what people have been sending back lately….hasn’t been a lot of traffic on this site recently ?
 
I would have had thousands of cork bottled wines over the years with very few cork tainted and I rarely drink a wine under 5 years old and most 8-10 years +.

I've had plenty of dried out, breaking corks which can impact oxidisation etc and plenty of wine that's over the hill or been light/heat effected.

The real problem with cork was that we were sold the low end stuff in the 90's and beyond.
 
Tanark2 said:
I would have had thousands of cork bottled wines over the years with very few cork tainted and I rarely drink a wine under 5 years old and most 8-10 years +.

I've had plenty of dried out, breaking corks which can impact oxidisation etc and plenty of wine that's over the hill or been light/heat effected.

The real problem with cork was that we were sold the low end stuff in the 90's and beyond.
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The whole issue of corks as a wine bottle seal has been examined widely and professionally, but probably not updated in recent years as the general quality of corks available in Australia has improved. But the non-taint issues haven't really changed with taint-free "natural" corks.

From Huon Hooke: Screwcaps aren’t necessarily the best closure, but they’re arguably the best we have at present and much more consistent than cork. Winemakers tell me cork quality has improved in recent times, but I don’t see the evidence in the thousands of wines I taste each year.

Why are Australian winemakers still using wine corks instead of screwcaps?

Screwcaps are arguably the best closure we have at present and much more consistent than cork, writes Huon Hooke.
www.smh.com.au www.smh.com.au

There is a wide variation in the threshold of detection/concern with TCA. I'm at the low threshold end of the spectrum. I've seen on many occasions wines that to me were clearly tainted being happily consumed by others. I've been to wineries where a half-empty bottle opened and provided for tasters the day before was clearly and quite badly (to me) tainted, or one just opened and checked by the staff, clearly tainted. I've seen a barrel sample extracted two days prior and sealed with a cork open clearly tainted.

Before I pretty much stopped buying cork-sealed wines I used to keep records of faults, including taint, oxidation, cork-related off-flavours and the taint rate was over 4% on average. I reckon I've probably tasted (not drunk) over 20,000 cork-sealed wines, I've been to a lot of tastings and winery visits over 50 years.

Of the many tainted wines I've taken/sent back for replacement I've never had my claim rejected, including one where the winemaker thought it wasn't tainted but the machine analysis showed it was, at a low level.
 
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lukeyyc88 said:
Does anyone have any views on whether the salvation cases are still worth it?

www.vinomofo.com

Salvation 88.0 - Mixed Case

It’s Salvation time again! When it comes to the Salvation Dozen, here's our guarantee - excellent booze at way under market value. Grab this mystery mix and get 12 wines for under $11 a bottle. That's a no-brainer in our book.
www.vinomofo.com www.vinomofo.com

I see there is a current one available.
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I have ordered a few in the past and always find them to be good value. Usually at least 1-2 bottles punch well above the $11 price point.
 
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Free Shipping on this evening. Anybody know what this is?
Also had a buyer email for Parker Estate "Hungry Lou" Shiraz Tokay 2018.
96 points James Halliday. Less than 100 cases available (earlier this afternoon)
 
Thank you.
The Parker Estate "Hungry Lou" Shiraz Tokay 2018 has my interest, but I can find very little information (other than the cellar).
I was hoping someone on here might have some experience
 
JJE said:
Thank you.
The Parker Estate "Hungry Lou" Shiraz Tokay 2018 has my interest, but I can find very little information (other than the cellar).
I was hoping someone on here might have some experience
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Does anyone know how much they were selling this for?
 
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