by Saina » Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:52 pm
Not long ago I posted on some 1989 white Reservas that were drinking nicely but there was no hurry with them. Today I noticed that one of my three bottles of the red LdH Tondonia Reserva 1991 had a leaking cork (low shoulder ullage and several spoiled labels beneath this in my fridge). The colour was old, but the wine itself was lovely: crisp, clean, bright cherry aromas; acidic and well structured but with enough fruit that even those who require such a pedestrian quality in wine (isn't the magic of wine that it mutates something as dull and boring as fruit into something genuinely worthy of contemplation?) would have enjoyed this. If a leaking bottle was so good and young, how long should I still keep my other two?
I don't drink wine because of religious reasons ... only for other reasons.
