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To: albie
And I’ll bet they couldn’t tell the difference if their life depended on it.

Stick the expensive label on a bottle of cheap wine and pawn it off on the next sucker. There was an episode of Midsommer Murders based on a scam where they convinced a connoisseur that they have found a secret trove of vintage wine and convinced him to help them steal it, when in fact it was rotgut with counterfeit labels.

33 posted on 10/23/2020 11:31:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Stick the expensive label on a bottle of cheap wine and pawn it off on the next sucker.”

When agents searched his house, they found inexpensive Napa wines with notes indicating they would be passed off as older vintages of Bordeaux, corks, stamps, labels, and other tools involved in counterfeiting wine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Kurniawan


76 posted on 10/23/2020 12:04:20 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The Billionaire’s Vinegar...fun read and true.

https://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive/dp/0307338789


84 posted on 10/23/2020 12:26:06 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Another good read and says the same thing——drink what you like. Has several examples of blind taste tests with the “lesser” wine being chosen as the best.

https://www.amazon.com/Toast-Bargain-Wines-Iconoclasts-Revolutionaries-ebook/dp/B004T4KL34/ref=sr_1_4?crid=YEV6ZG3BSTNF&dchild=1&keywords=george+taber&qid=1603482136&s=books&sprefix=george+taber%2Cstripbooks%2C194&sr=1-4


91 posted on 10/23/2020 12:43:35 PM PDT by vis a vis
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