It's low priced swill.
"Ken Overton" > wrote in message
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> I've never been formally introduced to a corked wine as clearly identified
> by folks who know those kind of things. Well, last week I opened a
> cheapie -- Penfolds Rawson's Retreat Merlot, '03. By most accounts it's
> supposed to be an innocuous, juicy thing, but this had all tannin, almost
> no fruit and utterly no nose that I could find. I sniffed and swirled but
> nothing came out. The cup was an eerie olfactory black hole.
>
> I know that TCA is said to produce unpleasant musty smells. So what could
> explain this?
>
> TIA,
>
> -- kov