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I took 'her indoors' out to a BYO restaurant for an 'occasion' dinner recently. I selected a Rockford BP 2002 as our 'red' for the night from our (now small, post children) cellar. I was more than a little disappointed. On opening, and first taste it was dull, with not much fruit and not much length. It basically 'fell away' very quickly. I've alway been a big fan of the BP, and do not recall ever having this issue before. I'm sure the same wine about 12-18 months ago was fine. This particular bottle (to my taste) was not corked, and while it did improve a little after about an hour, it never became even 'interesting'. I regret not taking a 'backup', and will probably make sure I do this in future. So, I'm wondering if this wine is in a known 'dull period', or perhaps my admittedly less than ideal cellaring conditions are too blame (not that they are _that_ bad!). Has anyone tried this vintage recently with better luck?

cheers,
dave

Dull, not much fruit and not much length sounds lightly corked to me. If it is, this is the worst kind where it ist screamingly clearly corked.

I've had two wines in two days now where it took a long time to work out TCA was at play, to the point we probably wont get a refund on one of them cos we thought it was just a poor wine ad kept drinking it to see if it would come around!

AB

I had the same problem this week with a couple of my wines this week as noted on TORB's Sunday thread. Maybe its the phase of the moon?

cheers

Carl

Dave, I've had this a few times in the past 8 or 9 months and its a rich, slightly sweet wine with an almost porty finish to it. Your description screams TCA to me, just without an overt mustiness on the nose.

Rockford is great when it comes to replacing bad bottles. Give them a buzz and they'll usually replace it with the same vintage.

Mike