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filed under: Ramblings
Do you ever get that feeling that you've done something wrong? That you've somehow ignited a really lethal chain reaction of bad karma that's impossible to get out from under? For me, this has for some reason taken place (the alleged bad deed followed by said bad karma response) and is causing an inexplicably large number of wines I'm opening to be "off." In the last few weeks I'd say close to 30% of all the wines I've cracked have been oxidized, corked or infected with brett, the icky spoilage yeast that some un-shy women at my last tasting declared smelled like a "stinky baby diaper." And it did.
But I wonder - Perhaps it wasn't something I did, but a recent spooky event that took place? Like the lunar eclipse? (These same well-plied women insisted it had to be due to the lunar eclipse.) Whatever it was, I'm crossing my fingers its ill effects go away soon.
Or, perhaps I should appeal to some arbiter of wine spoilage to let me off the hook? After all, I didn't get into this business to drink icky wine. But where to find this unidentified sketchy wine guru??? Oy vey.
Posted by Courtney on March 5, 2008 10:42 PM
