[muawiyah]

Europeans used to take cheap white wines, add cows blood, put it in bottles with corks and peddle the stuff as the highest quality estate bottled vintages.

It took scientific tests to tell the difference ~ you mix that cows blood right, you can match the "earthiness" of all the European wines.

Cheap dessert wines in the US cannot be as readily immitated. Sugar water, alcohol and kool-aid mixes will settle out and give themselves away.

[editor-surveyor]

you mix that cows blood right, you can match the "earthiness" of all the European wines

Another good reason to stick with Napa or Sonoma wines.