What's happening ?

Time for a quick perousal of the world of wine and a catch up on what everyone is saying, or doing.

HRH Jancis, reports in the Financial Times that 2005 Bordeaux is every bit as good as the hype, and then some. Just what we need- they're already as dear as poison, whats another zero tacked onto the end of the price tag!

Decanter reports that the extremely pissed off US billionaire, William Koch, is sueing anyone he can find who has been involved in the sale of counterfeit wine to him over the past few years. That includes the controversial German wine dealer, Hardy Rodenstock, auction house Acker Merrall, and now Californian wine collector, Eric Greenberg.

Koch has every right to be agitated. At the centre of this brouhaha is the issue of the 'fake' Thomas Jefferson collection bottles see our previous blog on this sold to him by Rodenstock, for which he paid a kings ransom. Rodenstock has since been implicated in the sale of numerous other wines of allegedly dubious provenance. There is obviously a lot more to come with this story.

The sale of the esteemed Californian producer, Chateau Montelena, has fallen over, no doubt related to the credit crunch issues of the moment. Miguel Torres is experimenting with Chinese oak, and
a report that dangerously high levels of heavy metals are to be found in some European wines raised a few eyebrows as well.

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