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.
George Soleas, the board's vice-president of quality assurance, said yesterday there is not risk to the public. ( No just surprise and embarrassment if you give a bottle of this Christmas item as a gift and the recipient opens it and discovers that he just been given tap water as a gift. I'm sure that he would not know what happened and unless he saw this article in the paper would have no reason to know why there is tap water in the bottle.)
"Basically, the chemical testing we have done, that was quite extensive, shows it is just tap water."
Apparently, the problem was the bottling plant where the bottles are flushed out with water.
"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. (I am surprised that he feels that he needs to explain the need for a recall. There should be no discussion that customers who paid good money for water would receive a full refund. Now, the problem is how is the recall being managed? How does a customer discover that they have purchased expensive tap water?)
Wonder if the customer who first discovered the problem had trouble proving his case to the Liquor Control Board?
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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