Gotcha!
Wine is great for many reasons. One of them happens to be its amazing ability to make people too full of themselves look bad. And an express route to looking humble is the blind tasting. Witness Paris, 1976.
Such was the case this past week in London. On his TV show, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay poured two wines blind for the “veteran crooner” Cliff Richard (pictured right–I mean how could this guy leave it to someone else to make him look bad? Love the silver workout shoes).
The first Richard said was excellent. OK it was $700.
The second he trashed saying: “That’s rubbish. I wouldn’t pay for that, it’s tainted, it’s insipid. It tastes like vinaigrette. I’d never buy that.”
Only problem? It was his wine. As in from his winery, Adega do Cantor (Cellar of the Singer), in Portugal.
Zing!!
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On June 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pm ,Salil wrote:
Dee-lightful!
There’s also a fun piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about it. A particularly amusing excerpt:
“To add insult to injury, Ramsay said that he is actually using the wine for vinaigrette in his restaurant at upmarket Claridges.
“I got 75 bottles for free and it really is going down tremendously well with the tuna,” he said.”