Red and white wine re-corking service

18th November 2008

A service could help concerned consumers establish if the expensive vintage wine they have stashed in their cellar is worth what they paid for it.

Reuters reports on a re-corking clinic that consists of a team of wine experts who re-cork and certify fine wine for worried punters.

The news agency reported the story of a New York advertising executive, Jerry Roberts, who took a bottle of '69 Penfolds Grange and an '81 Grange to a re-corking clinic in New York.

Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago tested both bottles and declared that Mr Roberts had better drink his '69 Grange before Christmas or New Year's to avoid it going off.

Luckily for Mr Roberts his 1981 Grange could last for another 15 years. The wine fetched over $400 (£266) at auction.

Mr Gago explained that he had two motives for running the business. He said: "First, it takes bad wines out of the system, and second we get to meet our customers and they get a chance to taste what it is they have."

It is believed that both red and white wine appeared in Europe around 4500 BC in what is now Bulgaria and Greece.

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