Or, as they say Back Home, titbits.
I have it on good authority that the scandal will have legs because it's the Germans who are prosecuting this thing. Not easily bought off as the home-boy carabinieri would be. All ist klar, Herr Kommissar?
I saw a list of the names, not merely one or two and most of them Big Time, who are implicated in the counterfeiting of Brunello. Should give their PR people lots and lots of billable hours. This list was "off the record and strictly hush-hush," as they say in the grisly James Elroy crime novels.
This goes way beyond the recent arrest of one of the Frescobaldis for fraud.
Oh cmon give us some name, or a link, or whatever. I'm too lazy to search. Pliiz :D
Posted by: Fiorenzo | March 25, 2008 at 04:17 AM
Spiace, ragazzo. No can do. Off record conversation.
Posted by: TH | March 25, 2008 at 07:21 AM
I've been hearing some of these rumblings as well. Dying to hear more! Any idea when things will break?
- wolfgang
Posted by: wolfgang | March 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Not sure when it will break. Let's hope the one who has leaked this info, someone "on the ground" in the Montalcino area, will feel free to publish it soon, or have an allied journalist do it.
The fear is that bruiting it about prematurely will harm the investigation and allow the malefactors to get off scot-free.
Posted by: TH | March 25, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Other news about Montalcino rumors and Brunello scandal:
http://vinoalvino.org/blog/2008/03/cosa-accade-a-montalcino-parlano-wine-spectator-ed-il-consorzio-del-brunello.html
Posted by: Franco Ziliani | March 25, 2008 at 06:05 PM