Those good quality corks

AND it was a mystery wine, because the front label was also defective.

[David M. Bueker]

Join the revolution. Screw caps!

[James Roscoe]

Was the wine bad? A bad cork doesn't mean a bad wine in my experience.
Nice mixer in the background by the way. What brand?

Join the revolution. Screw caps!

And we must do something about those damnedable labels!!!! Even a 1% failure rate is unacceptable. And after all, there is nothing sacred about paper labels. Wine labels as we know them have been in common use only since the last decade of the 18th century.

Comes the revolution comrades and we shall drink blood and borscht.

Best
Rogov

I have a bottle of 63 Croft's in the cellar. Its label is totally disintegrated. The only way to know what it is is that the top of the capsule (that's right - this is not wax dipped) says 1963 Croft embossed.

And I, with a nearly ideally temperature and humidity controlled cellar, and who has cellarrf some wines for as many as 30 years (so far) keep a fine pointed paintbrush and white paint at hand in order to mark bottles whose labels have deteriorated.

The new revolution has begun!!! Power to the people and all that kind of "stuff"

Best
Rogov

Looks like you used every corkscrew in the house to get that bad boy open!

[James Roscoe]

Looks like you used every corkscrew in the house to get that bad boy open!

They obviously did not have a saber.

Looks like you used every corkscrew in the house to get that bad boy open!

They obviously did not have a saber.

Yes, but the acme stick of dynamite seemed to have worked

I have a bottle of 63 Croft's in the cellar. Its label is totally disintegrated. The only way to know what it is is that the top of the capsule (that's right - this is not wax dipped) says 1963 Croft embossed.

The other way is often... by inspection of the side of the cork when removed!

[David M. Bueker]

I have a bottle of 63 Croft's in the cellar. Its label is totally disintegrated. The only way to know what it is is that the top of the capsule (that's right - this is not wax dipped) says 1963 Croft embossed.

The other way is often... by inspection of the side of the cork when removed!

I'm thinking of a horse and a barn door...

I have a bottle of 63 Croft's in the cellar. Its label is totally disintegrated. The only way to know what it is is that the top of the capsule (that's right - this is not wax dipped) says 1963 Croft embossed.

The other way is often... by inspection of the side of the cork when removed!

I'm thinking of a horse and a barn door...

Indeed it can bring some pleasant / unpleasant surprises. It is as you say though, the one indication that you can't tell until the bottle is opened ... well that and the wine itself.