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I quote thee:

“I’m talking Jenna Jamison, rolled in fetid cabbage, lying naked in horse stall filthy.”

I think I’ve seen that movie.

Jeff

Great post!!!

Lol. Didn’t even make the Bret/Jenna connection until now. Nice.

David,

I don’t think it’s really accepted that you can return a wine with Brett. There are too many people out there who feel it is not a fault.

However, my policy will always be return or exchange with no questions asked, anytime after ordering. But that’s a customer service/business decision, not really a wine quality one.

Thanks for the comment and the kind words!

If you download the ETS report there is another white Burgundy on there that tested positive. So my sample size is two!

I should probably mention that these tests aren’t cheap, so not many people go around having them done every time they suspect Brett.

I guess what I’m getting at is that if you taste Brett in a white, don’t be afraid to mention it to your tasting group, friends or whomever. Brett is out there in whites, and in my experience it is much more prevalent in French wines. For the purposes of giving supporting evidence to this contention I supplied the results of the lab tests. Overall I think it’s a pretty reasonable and defensible position, but I’ll happily amend it when I come across an infected new world Chard.

Please note that I’m not bashing the French wines! The reds were amazing, and the other two white Burgs I had blind were excellent. Heck I’m not even arguing that Brett is bad for everyone. Some like it, some don’t. I just happen to be pretty sensitive to it, so I can only take it in small doses.

Thanks for the comment!

Request for future blog entry: your thoughts on natural cork enclosures. Seems like they’d be responsible for more tainted bottles than brett would be.

–rama (ramarob on twitter)

I will however comment on the brett. I think this happens more than folks want to admit. In the 20 plus years I have been drinking wine, I’ve had it happen at least 5 times that I believed I was tasting wine that had brett. Now you were able to do some testing, so it was clearly brett. I was talking with a winemaker the other day and a retailer had called him about his wine having this taste. I think he did the right thing, but he pulled all the bottles from her store, open a fresh case and tasted it with her. After having this conversation with a distributor, they seemed surprised that he pulled the wine. WOW! was I shocked.

What are your thoughts? If you found out about your own wine?

I just believe you build Customer one at a time! And when they have bad product, it needs to be replace.

I hope more consumers get a chance to read about brett and understand, they should bring this to someone’s attention when they thing something isn’t right.

Thanks for sharing the test results and the reminder, it happens in whites as well!