At this point, Miller just has to go for RMP to maintain any semblance of credibility. These "Miller-gate" issues, if nothing else, have exposed his rating methodology and independence to be severely lacking, to say the least. I actually think Miller was duped in this case (the importer or brand owner slipped him higher quality wine that what was eventually released as Sierra Carche), but to sit for 10 months on the evidence sent him by "his biggest fan" (Kenney) is unexplainable. Not that Miller hasn't offered some incredibly lame excuses on the BB.

As to the Sierra Carche issue (Carche-gate?), that one is REALLY going to take some 'splaining by the winemaker, importer, retailer. The latest response, allegedly from the winemaker, is that they "accidentally" bottled some higher quality juice in one production run and, go figure, that happened to be the one that Miller was given to taste.

After the rating (96) came out, they did more bottlings of other juice that was crap and sold it as Carche hoping to get away with it. I know..I'm very cynical..but this brand is owned and was created by Guy Anderson Wines, a large UK based "brand creator" for wines. I think, if enough objective investigation is done (a big IF), that it will turn out that GAW tried to capitalize on the rating and, at the very least, had horrendous quality control procedures leading to releasing wine that even Miller has called "undrinkable".

The reactions on the Parker BB are getting nastier including one that coins a new Parker rating for the wine.... "Undrinkable; Rating 96!".