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Wine fraud: you can’t judge a book by its cover — or a wine by its label
I had lunch last week with Vick Mickunas, he of WYSO-FM “Book Nook” fame until things got all crazy at that Yellow Springs public radio station. In case you haven’t heard, the Dayton Daily News has talked Vick into bringing his book-world expertise to our Sunday paper and more recently to our web site, where his Book Nook blog is very much worth checking out.
At one point of our conversation, Vick — who knows his way around a wine list — noted how similar wines are to books: just as you can’t judge a book by its cover, neither can you judge a wine by its label.
Ain’t THAT the truth, especially now with the news that Federal authorities are investigating whether inferior bottles of wine were passed off as rare vintages worth more than $100,000 a bottle.
And to think I came thiiiiiiiis close to buying one of those “Thomas Jefferson Collection” bottles.
I knew there was something suspicious about that label, though. I didn’t think Yellow Tail was around during Jefferson’s time….
Cheers!
Mark Fisher
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