One of my hobbies is wine tasting.  So it’s no surprise that an article from the Wall Street Journal recently grabbed my attention.  It said: “U.S. Investigates Counterfeiting of Rare Wines.”

The very idea assaults the senses. 

According to the article, the targets of the counterfeiters include France’s great Chateau Mouton Rothschild.  How distasteful!

Chateau Mouton, of course, enjoys an exalted and well earned reputation as one of the great Bordeaux wines of France.  The historian, Hugh Johnson, describes the wines of the region this way:

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