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Thank you -rens- for your response. Answers = closure? -- cork, pristine, good quality : Drinking alone? no one other -agreed that nose was unusual for a 'wine'. Second bottle? yes and very similar experience, but it was a Semillon different vintage. Other bottle? not the same but it was a Rheisling...

I've gone through the sequence of storing wine in boxes at home for a few years, then in a commercial wine storage unit for a further 3 years and finally in my own fridge for 2 months. The first bottle of semillon (2006) that I tasted was terrible -both nose and palate. After studying the nose "...