Comments on: Good Body But Over Manured: Italian Wine Found to Be Heavily Laden with Many Things But Little Actual Wine http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scandals: Made in Italy… | Consigli DiVini http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-13051 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:11:50 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-13051 [...] million litres of cheap Italian wines (sold for under 2 euros per litre) were discovered to be contaminated with traces of horse manure, acid, fertiliser, hydrochloric acid and lots of water. The bootleg [...]

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10636 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:11:06 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10636 I must confess that I gravitated toward the California Pinot Noirs on this trip. I was born with both a tendency toward risk aversion and wine saturation.

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10624 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:56:05 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10624 :) JT,

I would love to have been with on THAT jaunt – better yet you with me on a similar one in Boston’s North End – my old stompin’ ground!

http://www.martignetti.com/

p.s. I have yet to see the after effects in the grocery/drug stores up here, although, unlike you I haven’t been to MY local sommelier/wine dealer.

Hope you got some good deals!!!

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10557 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:50:53 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10557 Ironically, I went to the wine store this weekend and found a huge sale on all Italian wine. Hmmmmmm.

]]> By: binx101 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10553 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:29:19 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10553 Let’s have a toast with one of my favorite wine quotes of all time:

From the movie Jerk. In the scene, Marie and Navin (Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin) are having dinner celebrating his new success and having just asked the waiter to remove Marie’s appetizer of Escargot because the plate was covered with disgusting snails – this brief dialogue occurs:

Waiter: Would monsieur care for another bottle of Chateau Latour?
Navin: Ah yes, but no more 1966. Lets splurge! Bring us some fresh wine! The freshest you’ve got – this year! No more of this old stuff.

]]> By: mespo727272 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10548 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:07:32 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10548 Vince:

I bow to our resident master of the pun!

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10545 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:50:55 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10545 Bada Bing Vincent and All!

]]> By: Binx101 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10524 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:09:45 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10524 Okay … one final entry to help ameliorate my transgression:

‘Chateau Latrine’

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10522 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:54:55 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10522 Eyyyyyy, Vinnie, you’re a freaken genius? ;) ;)

The rest we can discuss… :)

]]> By: Binx101 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10521 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:32:09 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10521 Or perhaps … ‘Wine-from-the-Can’

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10511 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:26:11 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10511 JT, Binx, our has very adroitly picked up on the Economy Class
‘No Frills’ concept of Wine-in-a Box – I’m jus’ sayin’…

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10476 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:56:05 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10476 Bix101, you have entered the realm of blogging legend with that one!

]]> By: Binx101 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10441 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:48:02 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10441 Perhaps there is much more to the etymology of the term ‘sh*t faced’ when drinking to excess.

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10439 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:12:52 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10439 ROFLMA :)

We have the Super Tuscan appellation which are quite pleasant and now
the Super Fund Tuscan – not so much.

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10431 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:13:31 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10431 Indeed, this “finish” could be final.

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10429 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:49:33 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10429 Now, I’ll be more discerning when I see “earthy undertones’
in the description.

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10426 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:26:47 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10426 Good point. Though I could swear that I have had this wine on countless occasions.

]]> By: Fuji-san http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/05/good-body-but-over-manured-italian-wine-found-to-be-heavily-contaminated-with-little-actual-wine/#comment-10424 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:35:01 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-10424 The price is right.

It’s hard to tell whether this is tainted wine or not wine at all. In either case, I assume the company is liable for any harm (is this products liability?); in the not-wine-at-all case, is it also fraud?

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