What are those black particles? Ewww. I wonder how much of that I drank...Any ideas? I think the prime suspect has to do with the cork. It was pretty brittle. The corkscrew hardly worked on it. I don't know, Imagine an old rotten cork and that's pretty much it. However, the wine smelled and tasted fine. I'm not exactly sure that's what it should have tasted like, since I've never tried this one before. But it wasn't bad.
The bottle was vacuum sealed between uses.
Here's another angle of the mysterious particles:
