I’m grateful to purple pager Pete Wrobel who pointed out this morning that he had just received an emailout from Fine & Rare Wines of London W10 touting the Taittinger Collection Rauschemberg (sic) 2000 at £677 for six bottles in bond.
He pointed out that they were using my tasting notes on the regular Taittinger 2000 rather than anything directly connected to this special bottling swathed in a work by the American artist Robert Rauschenberg.
When I took this up with FRW they said they had checked with Taittinger who confirmed that the wine inside was identical to...