wine sipping when a bottle was brought to a restaurant table. It seemed pretentious. I'd just ask the waiter to skip it and many seemed to be relieved. Of course I don't know one fermented grape from another and never order it anymore.
This has to be highly embarassing. I wonder how many of their experts passed on it. I've often wondered who is best for telling the difference between what's good and what's slop, the wine tasters, or beer drinkers? I'd put my money on the beer drinkers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7030802.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093
The label boasted of wine ?crafted with handpicked grapes? offering ?dark fruit aromas and flavours of black cherry and ripe plum?.
That description fooled the customers of E&J Gallo, the US wine giant, but not the fine noses of the fraud squad in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France.
A court in Carcassonne yesterday sentenced 12 local executives who were caught by the investigators passing off inferior wine as pinot noir and selling 18 million bottles of it to Gallo, the biggest family-owned wine firm in the US.
Gallo sold it in the US under its popular Red Bicyclette pinot noir brand.
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