LCBO recalls Italian wine

Clive sent me this information, which I'm passing along as a public service . . . and also because it's rather amusing:

Ontario's Liquor Control Board is recalling an Italian wine, but not for the usual reasons.

Some of the 1,500 ml bottles of 2007 D'Aquino Pinot Grigio delle Venezie are nothing but water.

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"The only reason we decided to do the public recall is because we stand behind the quality of our products 100 per cent," Soleas said. "And a lot of these products, because they are Christmas items, they are going to be gifted and I didn't want to have people surprised on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve opening this product and finding water instead of wine."

"It was a human error basically, it wasn't a tampering issue at all," he added.

The problem was at the bottling plant where the bottles are flushed out with water.

"I guess someone was waiting for Jesus to turn it into wine," he joked.

Of course, given that a major American brewery is busy pushing its primary product because of its easy drinkability, this might be an ideal "wine" to serve to that audience . . . very little could be easier drinking than water.