Comments on: Fraud in Languedoc: A Sea of Fake Pinot?

By: Curious: The Curious Wines Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Languedoc-Roussillon & the label with the pretty bike

Wed, 12 May 2010 06:00:50 +0000

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By: David Flaherty

David Flaherty — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:57:23 +0000

Steve, thats because it is difficult to talk on the phone while you’re in the jacuzzi. Especially a jacuzzi filled with Red Bicyclette Pinot. Has Gallo made an official response yet?

By: Steve Winston

Steve Winston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:23:13 +0000

And meanwhile, back at the ranch, normally chatty Gina Gallo, the family’s Sonoma winemaker, is not, not, accepting calls today following the French Court’s finding of guilty, guilty, guilty.

By: Steve Winston

Steve Winston — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:10:04 +0000

Red Bicyclette carries a Healdsburg return address rather than Modesto as is usual with Gallo products. That is Gina Gallo’s turf. She is married to J.C. Boisset, scion of the huge French wine company and should have known there are not that many hectoliters of Pinot Noir juice available in Languedoc. And since she has been making Pinot Noir wines in E&J Gallo’s Sonoma winery since 1991, Gina Gallo should have known what it smelled and tasted like?

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By: Evening Hérault

Evening Hérault — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:15:49 +0000

Really well put – we’ve been mentioning it on our blog too but you’ve really caught the mind-boggling scale of it all with “an aircraft carrier-load of fake wine”. Spot on.

By: Solo500

Solo500 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:29:09 +0000

Great post. Interesting to note that Gallo made the effort to appeal to the pedestrian consumer with a neat, twee cartoon label. It can still be “bicyclette” even if not Pinot, right? I would keep the blend the same and just call it “F is for Fake Pinot”.