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Fraud in Languedoc: A Sea of Fake Pinot?

Feb 11th, 2010 by

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8 Responses to “Fraud in Languedoc: A Sea of Fake Pinot?”

  1. Solo500 says:
    February 12, 2010 at 10:29 am

    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”.

  2. Evening Hérault says:
    February 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    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.

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  4. Steve Winston says:
    February 15, 2010 at 10:10 am

    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?

  5. Steve Winston says:
    February 18, 2010 at 12:23 am

    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.

  6. David Flaherty says:
    February 18, 2010 at 7:57 am

    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?

  7. Curious: The Curious Wines Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Languedoc-Roussillon & the label with the pretty bike says:
    May 12, 2010 at 1:00 am

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  8. Will Doyle says:
    June 5, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Gallo suckered by millions of gallons of fake Pinot? Miles from Sideways would be pissed. http://t.co/PMw7lBIz

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