WTN: Insult to injury

First, the injury: our last bottle of the Edmunds St. John 2000 Paso Robles Red Wine, Rozet Vineyard, "Los Robles Viejos" was corked. Then, the insult: its replacement, a Raymond Usseglio 2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pâpe, wasn't corked, but it had a nervous breakdown after about 20 minutes in the glass. At first, a ripe-but-coherent mix of cherry and strawberry fruit, earth, and toasty cocoa; then, a hot, boozy, gobby mess, with whatever coherence it once had melting away like little Timmy's fallen scoop of ice cream on an August sidewalk. Blech.

[David M. Bueker]

Double bummer.

Yikes! Let me know when you're in my neighborhood again; I don't have many bottles left, but I'll open one with you if we can work out the timing!

Hey, that's kind of you, Steve! We don't get out there quite so frequently nowadays, but we do, so I'll let you know... it'd be a pleasure to see you again!