Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds 336
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Carbon dating isn't used only for such academic pursuits as trying to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin, or figure out how old some rocks are. An anonymous reader writes "Up to 5% of fine wines are not from the year the label indicates, according to Australian researchers who have carbon-dated some top dollar wines."
-1 wine snobs (Score:1, Funny)
Alternate Headline (Score:5, Funny)
The finer things in life. (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent work. (Score:5, Funny)
Some days I'm proud to be an Australian.
Re:-1 wine snobs (Score:5, Funny)
"Can you guess what wine it is?"
"Chateu Latour 1986?"
"Nooooo! 1985!!!"
"Damn! So close!!!"
I mean, you don't exactly hear winos on the street going...
"Yes, fantastic vintage!" "About four O'Clock!"
"Goes well with the carcass of KFC, from bin number four..."
More accuracy (Score:2, Funny)
Ya know, they'd get way more accuracy measuring these fine wines age if they used oxygen depleted gold plated monster cables on their equipment...
Re:The finer things in life. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:-1 wine snobs (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, my. There was a hysterically funny sketch on Carol Burnett, decades about an alcoholic wine expert who was lured into a final tasting match against another expert. His opponent's failing description included the type of wine, the year, the winery, and the name of the girl who stomped the grapes. But he got the name of the girl wrong.
The alcoholic's winning description was "Isss g-o-o-d".
Re:Excellent work. (Score:5, Funny)
Whoosh
Fixed that for you.
Re:No One Would Notice (Score:5, Funny)
$400 dollar wine is much like gold plated ethernet cables. Only less so.
Re:Old Enough? (Score:5, Funny)
I saw that episode of White Collar too! ;)
Re:No One Would Notice (Score:5, Funny)
'Sideways': Everything you need to know bout wine (Score:4, Funny)
2. Delicate grapes on a vine can be a metaphor for your life / personality, or something.
3. If anyone orders Merlot, leave.
Re:No One Would Notice (Score:3, Funny)
If I spend that much on wine I'm not going to spit it out. That's just crazy talk right there!
Re:-3.14 Reference Snobs (Score:5, Funny)
So has Monty Python, and it's probably still in the top 10 references on slashdot...
No it isn't
Re:Let me take a pro-expensive wine position (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a memorable experience if you have to be TOLD that it's a memorable experience.
Some of my most memorable experiences I can't recall at all.
Re:Let me take a pro-expensive wine position (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let me take a pro-expensive wine position (Score:4, Funny)
Same goes for hookers.
Or so I've heard.
Re:-1 wine snobs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:'Sideways': Everything you need to know bout wi (Score:4, Funny)
4. Always order Merlot. Everyone else leaves, more wine for you!