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Red Wines
indeed,like prophets in our own country—appreciated more
abroad than at home...vmless they bear a foreign title and
some romantic Chateau name. They need better press
agents!
Yes,the French are as subtle as their wines, past masters
in the art that A1 Smith calls "baloney"—and I say this
without discrediting their talents in trading. They're as
canny as the Prohibition-day Scotch, who bought oodles of
American bootleg and whose agents sold it as "just off the
ship" to guileless American drinkers, without its ever having
touched Scottish soil.
I have emphasized this situation purposely so that I
might close this chapter with a warning that one must be
much more careful in the buying of red wines than in pur
chasing white wines, although in buying any liquors of any
type care should always be one's watchword.