Our policy at the Market has always been: If a wine is not rated by a major wine critic, then one of us here must taste the wine before we bring it in the store.
We strayed from this policy for a recent wine tasting and bought a value priced Cabernet without tasting it first. When I tried the wine, I thought it was corked. Jeff and Rich tried it too, and we couldn't decide whether it was really corked or just stinky. It didn't taste very good either. We opened more bottles of the wine. We decanted them. We left them open for hours to see if the smell would burn off. It didn't. It was just flawed, poorly made wine that we wouldn't have bought if we tasted it first. We took the wine off the shelf and returned it.
I'm just glad we bought the wine for a tasting instead of just putting it on the shelf untried. That would not have been good.
Tom
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