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Faking Wine (in the Closet)

By Neil Pendock | 13 June 2012

Is US wine fakir Rudy Kurniawan musical?  This would seem to be the implication of Jancis Robinson’s strange blog posting yesterday: “Rudy never seemed to have a girlfriend but sometimes brought his mother to wine tastings.  He took over the restaurant Melisse in Los Angeles for her 60th birthday celebrations.”  I should ask Jancis’s friend Tim James, who has a nose for this kind of thing, being an expert, as he is, in “suspiciously childless” wine farm owners both alive (on the now very dead Grape magazine) and dead (in Noseweak).

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