But the more important reason why this is a problem is that when the person sits down to drink the wine he purchased, he'll compare it with the Diet Pepsi he was just sipping, with the wine he drank last Saturday or with some other beverage he remembers.
Several agreed so he could rotate the kinds of wine he gave waiting guests.
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To encourage people to drink up, he sells wine by the half bottle and by the glass.
He discovered the fakes when, several months after the auction, he hired wine expert William Edgerton to inspect his collection.
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There he makes wine and displays his European arms and armor, including seven 16th-century pikes (2.5-meter-long spears) and halberds (pikes with hatchet blades).
There he makes wine and displays his European arms and armor, including seven 16th-century pikes (8-foot-long spears) and halberds (pikes with hatchet blades).
Mr. Parker gently shooed aside his bulldog Betty Jane (he's almost as impassioned about dogs as he is wine) and offered some semiconvincing assurances.
Less than four months later, the boy revealed to investigators that Jackson had inappropriately touched him about five times, that he was given wine and alcohol almost every night he stayed at Neverland, and that Jackson showed him pornographic magazines.
George likes a nice glass of wine when he's cooking, red wine from a green bottle.
He was a connoisseur of fine wine and he never allowed his grievances over the Boer war, and over the gradual eclipse of Afrikaans by the English language in South Africa, to blind him to the glories of English literature.
At the trial today, Cortes told a smooth narrative about what happened next: Greenberg announced that he was selling some wine to fund a company he was starting, and because he had more than he could drink.
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He rails against the modern language of wine, which he describes as the worst sort of synthesis of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell and creating a club designed to exclude other people.
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He founded a wine shop and restaurant chain called PlumpJack in the early 1990s.
Because drinking wine was illegal, he says he tasted the flavors associated with wine instead.
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The wine he drinks is often a bottle that a friend brings to his house.
He told CNN his favorite job was putting on the labels and that he makes red wine.
He kept a wine locker there, his name engraved on a brass plate between two other regulars: George H.
"He had a couple of white wine spritzers, but he has never been over the top, " Mr Noble-Campbell said.
Mr. Carter accepts samples but discloses when the wine he's reviewing was free.
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To counter pizza's two main ingredients, tomato and mozzarella, he says the wine needs acidity and a generous proportion of sweet fruit.
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Curiously though, the white wine he brought for our meal is very ripe and voluptuous, by no means dry, a 2006 Hirtzberger Riesling Smaragd Singerriedel.
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Koch, a yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 1992, conceded that the wine he bought from the California businessman was not his first encounter with fakes.
In addition, he writes about wine and beer regularly for a number of trade and consumer publications and occasionally serves as a wine judge and panelist for various events.
But it had the characteristic pear, apple and honey flavors of his beloved Loire Chenin, and it was the first wine he'd tasted since his capture some two years before.
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The dangers of trading in rare wines was already apparent to Koch, who learned in 2005 that four bottles of French wine he believed had been once owned by Thomas Jefferson were fake.
"He became a wine educator, " said Mr. Johnnes.
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Koch, a Palm Beach resident and the brother of industrialists and conservative political supporters David and Charles Koch, conceded on the witness stand that the wine he bought from Greenberg was not his first encounter with fakes.
He says his wine and spirits business, the biggest distributor in Illinois, has seen a serious uptick in the middle of a recession as bars and restaurants in the Chicago area fill up during the Blackhawks' playoff run.
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