Sentence examples for phony wine from inspiring English sources
"But there's lots of phony wine.
He has thrown himself into his battle against Rodenstock and phony wine with the same headlong enthusiasm that he devoted to collecting wine.
Sun Yu, sales director, said phony wine brands like Mouton & Sons or Edouard Mouton popped up in the Chinese market: "It happens in secondary or third-tier cities where they don't have much wine knowledge".
She said that on a number of occasions she has inspected a cellar that a collector was interested in auctioning and rejected it, in whole or in part, because of the preponderance of fakes, only to learn that the collector sold the phony wine through one of her competitors.
Officials recently created a national database in an attempt to track down the items, which range from fake olive oil to phony expensive wine, according to Cleveland local news station 19 Action News.
The phrase "Brie and Chablis crowd" was used to deride liberals, branding them as effete after the stereotyped image of art-gallery openings at which bad cheese and phony French white wine were served.
The real question is not whether wine snobs and wine writers are big phonies but whether they are any bigger phonies than, say, book reviewers or art critics.
In one high-profile counterfeit case, alleged wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan produced millions of dollars of phony Burgundies, perhaps altering the fine wine market indefinitely, Vanity Fair reports.
And we prefer wine with a pedigree, even if it's a phony one.
Beyond phony labels, cheap imitations and copycat knockoffs in China, sometimes harmful chemicals and sweeteners are added to manipulate low-end wine.
