Steinberger on fraud and the Royals

originally posted by Thor:
As I understand it, Parker's tie to the scandal is merely that he rated a Rodenstock wine with lots and lots of points.
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You missed some stuff in the article, then. The newer assertion is that Parker maintained regular association with the Royal folks for both casual and less casual imbibing, association which (via scores and just the public nature of the relationship) was then used by the Royal gang to sell wine which may have been fraudulent.
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Granted this addition, what I said still holds. I have no doubt that he has since made inconsistent statements as to his association with Rodenstock and/or Royal. He has certainly repeated said that he judged the wine he tasted to be what it was represented to him as, even though he admits that he had never tasted the same wine before, a statement that beggars the imagination for foolishness. But that's about the most he can be accused of, and we hardly need this story to accuse him of that.
 
I interviewed for a position with a prominent auction house back in 2006. During the Q and A I asked about fakes and how often they encountered them. There was an uncomfortable moment of sheepish silence followed by this comment: we don't like to use the "f" word around here. Then they changed the subject.

I wasn't offered the job.
 
originally posted by Nicolas Mestre:
I interviewed for a position with a prominent auction house back in 2006. During the Q and A I asked about fakes and how often they encountered them. There was an uncomfortable moment of sheepish silence followed by this comment: we don't like to use the "f" word around here. Then they changed the subject.

I wasn't offered the job.
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...shudder...

I'm glad I don't have anywhere near the cash to be tempted to spend it on things like ultra rare "old bordeaux" in large formats.

Good article, too.

Fools and their money are soon parted.
 
So aside from establishing trust of provenance, how does one fake a "classic" wine in terms of what"s in the bottle? 25% declared or similar age vintage?
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

From this thread's title, I thought we would be revisiting the incident involving George Brett, pine tar and the Yankees.
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I was at that game. Ruling shouldn't have been overturned. He had too much pine tar on that bat.
 
It turns out that if you can move the stuff to Tesco, you don't need high prices. As VLM says, it's all about the cash flow.
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
Bernard BerensonSo aside from establishing trust of provenance, how does one fake a "classic" wine in terms of what"s in the bottle? 25% declared or similar age vintage?
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I notice the term "port-like" often appears in the tasting notes. There's a clue.
 
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