Cork Issues And Our Latest Bottle - 2006 Bodegas Luzon Petit Verdot
So, we can't in good conscience do a review on this wine that we opened up tonight. As soon as we got the foil off the bottle we saw that the cork had some moisture on it....not good. We decided to pop the cork and see how it was. The good news was it did not have the musty basement/wet dog notes that we would expect from a wine with cork taint but it did not have what we would consider an attractive nose. It smelled like burnt sugar or raisins. Now, this is why we won't review it. We don't know if there has been evaporation from the cork which might have caused some concentrations of the fruit notes but if this is how this wine is supposed to smell, it is not the best. The burnt sugar smell goes passed the caramel and ripe fruit sensations to the raisin level. Too much. There is also debris in the bottle which again might be part of the wine but maybe not. Maybe the wine has begun to oxidize and there is yeast dropping out of su...