I have recently open a bottle of Spanish un-oak Tampranillo.It smell like rotten egg. But slowly fade off with time in the glass. Ismell the cork but it smell fine. It's the first time I've tried un-oakTampranillo, just wondering is it normal or the wine is corked.Question, How corked wine smell and when the wine is corked, does the corkitself smell bad too?I've drunk many wine and I've never encounter faulty one before.

Salut/Hi Eric lee, le/on Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:05:23 +0800, tu disais/you said:-H2S, often caused by sulphur dropping onto the bottom of a barrel, when thesulphur "candle" is burnt in it to sterilise it. However as your Tempranilloisn't oaked that sounds improbable. This is called "blowing off" and quite often happens with some minor faults.Doesn't prove anything at all and in general doesn't give much informationeven if the wine were corked.or the wine is corked.No it's not normal and from your description the wine is _definitely_ notcorked.People describe a corked wine smell in many ways, but most often have thewords "wet" & "mouldy" associated. So "Wet dog" "wet cardboard" "mouldycardboard" are all used fairly frequently. A very slightly corked wine maynot have much corked smell (at first certainly) but the smell does NOT goaway, it gets worse and that's the MOST distinctive characteristic of acorked wine. Well, you've been pretty lucky, or else you're one of the people like me...

How to confirm the wine is corked?

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Mark Lipton 22 years ago

Chemists are known for their precipitation... ;-)

Stay tuned, Mike. I may be over there this upcoming summer.

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Mike Tommasi 22 years ago

Isn't the Lord St Helier planning to be here also?

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JEP 22 years ago

I just re-read this. Sorry. It doesn't create energy, but transfers energy to a usuable source (ATP).

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Mark Lipton 22 years ago

So it is rumored. I have heard rumblings from another (unnamed) afw reg, too. Could be fun...

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Mike Tommasi 22 years ago

Now we just have to get the Tour de France to pass by my town...

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