Awesome guy. It's good to see that he took the corked bottle in stride. My buddy is working for them as a cellar monkey. You should totally have Walter on again. Tell him to bring two bottles of the cab this time ;)

What a nice guy, I'll try a Raymond sometime soon.

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Corked Wine? He seemed really cool about it. My favorite guest so far!

Wow, it seems they may have a quality control issue. I'm a QA test engineer by trade. I'd be happy to QA their product. =oP

I read about you in Time Magazine - the article was in between their promos for iPhone. I mean 5 iphone stories in as many months!! Anyhow- glad I stumbled across this/ I will forward url on.
See if you can get Stamos on to try some wines- I hear he is a big drinker.

Never heard of this label....shows what I know....I'll be on the lookout.

A corked bottle. Wonderful. Love it.

Thank for the description. I had a wine at a tasting that spelled of wet cardboard. Now I realize it was corked!

I've had TONS of Raymond in the past and can't ever remember a corked bottle. I hope it's not a trend. Has anyone had a corked Raymond over the last couple of months? I'm not drinking it as much as I used to, so now I'm curious.

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How weird. I had a 2002 Raymond cab last week at a wine tasting that was also corked. I'm seeing more corked wines coming out of California than ever previously.

This was an entertaining episode that unfortunately ended somewhat abruptly. I felt the corked wine issue was left hanging in the air like, well, like the musty stench of wet newspapers. I tried an '02 Raymond cab a few weeks ago and it, too, was corked... incidentally, it's not so funny when you don't have another bottle to open and you have to drive several miles to your local wine shop for a replacement.
Gary should have pressed Mr. Raymond to confront this problem or at least give his opinion about alternative bottle closures.

I've tried wonderful wines from Raymond, but my last experience with their wines was with a rep that was tasting with my local shop. Out of eight wines, three were corked. Need to worry?

Nice guy. Too bad for the corked cabsauv. It appears like a consistent, can't go wrong, appelation. Thanks for great story Raymond- I look forward to your wines in DC.