Ullage
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:48 am
David's post about "High Towers" raises (for me) the question of ullage, so I thought I bring it up in a new thread. The last few bottles of 1975 Lafite I've opened were selected based on ullage. The wine still has the original corks and I selected bottles to open that had the most ullage, nothing extreme, all still into the neck and none more than about an inch below the cork. The 3 remaining bottles are all about 3/4 inch below the cork. I indicated in David's post that I felt the wine had peaked in 2000. However, the bottles opened since than were the ones with the most ullage, so I'm wondering if there is a correlation between ullage and aging; ie., would a bottle with greater head space show more age than one with less? BTW - I open a bottle every 5 years and for those doing the math, the reason I only have 3 left is because I opened one for friends at MOCOOL a few years ago and donated one to the Hurricane Katrina fundraiser that went to Dale.