Originally Posted by
Showbizguru
Wine is the ultimate bollocks.
You've only got to read some of the cobblers on here to understand that it's a gigantic con trick to suck in the emotionally retarded.
A bottle of wine is just six glasses of crushed grapes fermented.
Some are better than others but rather like one car is more comfortable than another ultimately they're just a means of getting you to a certain place.
The rest is just hype, marketing and BS.
On the theme of wine being a gigantic con, US wine collector arrested for fraud:
http://nymag.com/news/features/rudy-...-fraud-2012-5/
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/46509
Rudy Kurniawan, a high-flying California-based wine dealer and collector who once bought and sold millions of dollars worth of wine annually, was arrested by the FBI at his southern California home on the morning of March 8 and charged with five felony counts of wire and mail fraud. The charges center on sales of allegedly counterfeit wines.
Sold over $35MM in counterfeit high end wine, quite impressive.