Why did no-one draw my attention to the best wine-based April Fool of all? And created by purple pager Steve De Long to boot. Much funnier than decanter.com's all-too-believable story that the French were to ban drinking alcohol in pavement cafes, and even our own powdered wine spoof.
It took until today when a friend in Washington pointed me in the direction of
http://www.delongwine.com/news/2009/03/31/playmobil-wine-bar/