Quel Dommage! French Judge, Wines, ‘There Has Been Fraud’

We knew there was some Noir missing from the Pinot Noir we’d bought from E & J Gallo. Now, a French judge has confirmed that we were right: poorer quality wine was mislabeled as higher quality and sold to Gallo. Declaring “there has been fraud,” the judge delivered a harsh, albeit suspended, prison sentence to several of the guilty wine producers/traders, and imposed fines.

The story is available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/business/global/19wine.html.