Tasting 1973 Chappellet Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon - Part 1 The Perfect Cork that went wrong.

This is the second old bottle of the afternoon. The first was Drunk by itself - it was a 1967 Heintz Cellar's Martha's Vineyard. So Anthony and Jeff are already feeling good and Happy when they go to open the 1973 Chappellet Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon - which was to go with lunch. Because the 1973 had a Very clean "Perfect" cork they decide to video it, but it turns out to be really really hard to get out.

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[CaptKelp]

@WhiteTiger333 Hi WT in short Definitely a real cork for something you are trying to age. In my opinion - which is extreme - Only a real cork for anything that you are going to keep more then a year or two. Plastic corks and screw on tops are best used for wines that are drunk young and wines that should be frozen in time - just the way they were bottled. But even those wines if you have equal wines - cork against plastic - I will always go Real cork.

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[WhiteTiger333]

I just learned a lot about tweezing recalcitrant corks without ending up with the lot inside the bottle. I wonder how plastic corks will do on long-term storage. Come to that, until I watched this video, I never thought to pay attention to whether or not wine meant to age in the bottle is potentially being given a plastic cork.