Sensitivity to Cork Taint Can't Spoil an evening?

2010 Da Vero Carignan. Dry Creek Valley.

I am pretty convinced this wine was pretty corked, but my friends and I still had a nice evening finishing it. Underneath the wet cardboard was some very nice, brambly berry fruit and herbal notes. Maybe I am imagining things, because the wine was still pleasant and they both proclaimed no cork taint or problem with the wine. Alan is a wine lover with a pretty good palate, so maybe I was wrong.

Nice medium body red...13.7% alcohol, so no heat or burn. red cherry, earth, savory notes.

I have one more bottle, so I will open it and see if I can catch TCA. It may just have been herbal notes and reticence I am tasting???? and not TCA.

Even good tasters have different perception levels for TCA, and (unfortunately) the more you recognise corkiness then the more corky bottles you seem to encounter.

Had a a surprising number of corked bottles on my recent trip to Rioja, and this week rejected a borderline corked wine in a gastro pub and was vindicated when the replacement showed what the wine should be. And oops, it was a Rioja.

I think it is easier for bolder, punchier wines. Like we were sampling a cabernet from Napa Valley, and I know it is a pretty potent wine. So, when it tasted flat...I said "wait a minute...I know what this wine is supposed to taste like!"

As in your case, I was right. I am a club member, so it is not as important to them for me, but if they are trying to sell this very nice cabernet to other people, it needs to be a good bottle!