Nosmo King
I'm not a cat
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If you are a serious collector of vintage wine it is possible to tell an original bottle from a fake, this is mainly down to things like the type of glass used, and mostly the label, things like the inks used, the paper, even the wording and font, there was an episode of 'The Hustle' about conning a wine collector.Meh.
Unless you drink it, can you tell it's fake? The whole "some wines are an investment" thing is a scam ... and this is coming from one who likes a tipple, knows the processes, and values a wine not as an investment but as a taste.
I know of a senior bar staff who, when Premiership Footie players came in with their "escorts", would reach for the old Champagne bottles that had been filled with cheap fizzy white. The players were happy to pay a couple of hundred quid to impress their ... ah ... guests by buying "vintage champagne" without knowing actually what they were drinking.
They were paying for the label, and the gloss that came with it. Not the taste.
I'd recommend listening to John Finnemore's Cabin Pressure radio comedy series, especially any that involves "Burling Days". The 'trick' is all around Talisker whiskey, and the actual taste of the whiskey counts and is counted!
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