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A new sort of TCA?
Rodrigo Mainardi, Brazil: I've had an awful amount of bad bottles recently, including a few from producers who take special care in their cork selections such as Vega Sicilia. The odd thing is that the wines appear to be corked and after a few minutes they lose most of the fruit and gain that odd TCA taste but the wines seem to retain a little bit of the fruit even after several hours. Is this a new kind of contamination? Have you had a similar experience? me: This doesn't ring a particular bell with me. Don't you find that with regular TCA contamination there is often some fruit there? It's just that it's spoilt by the TCA...
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