I popped my first Alsace pinot noir last night, a 2019 Ruhlmann Cuvée Mosaïque. The first thing I noticed was a deep smokiness. There weren’t any predominant fruit flavors. Instead it was gamy and funky. All flavors I’ve liked in other wines, like a Syrah, but in a pinot noir it was all very off-putting. A friend suggested it may be cork taint, but after remembering that it had a synthetic cork I wasn’t sure if this was possible. The tasting notes I’ve read for this wine are all incredibly different than what I got out of it, which leads me to my question: is it it possible to get a corked bottle from a synthetic cork?
For 15 years, Athan Zafirov has traveled the vineyards around the world and worked with some of the greatest chefs including Francois Duc and Alan Brown.
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