Police are advising anyone whose Yellow Tail tastes ‘more winey than usual’ to report it to the authorities. Interestingly, analysis showed that the bogus Yellow Tail was less than 12 percent alcohol. ‘We can’t have them accidentally drinking something that might taste like wine.’ Sweet solution ‘Wine drinkers need to know that when they buy a bottle of Yellow Tail they’re getting a vastly over-sweetened bottle of filth,’ he told Fake Booze. Watt Isset from the consumer group WTF said the whole affair would leave a bad taste in the mouth of duped customers. Fake Bottles of Yellow Tail Wine Are Popping Up in the U.K. ‘The numbers just don’t bear thinking about.’ Bad taste ‘These unscrupulous villains could have been making upwards of five or even ten pence on each sale. ‘Some of these wines go for six or seven quid a bottle, while the bubbles can fetch as much as eight,’ said Inspector Uri Nicked. UK Wine Police put the street value of the 5,000 cases of Yellow Tail at literally tens of pounds. ‘By passing off half decent wine as gaudy supermarket roo-juice they have brought dishonour on our proud, lucrative and officially tiny profession.’ Huge sums 16:31, Stock photo of a wine glass as KVK Supermarket in Walmley loses its licence (Image: Stock) A Sutton Coldfield supermarket caught with 41 bottles of counterfeit wine has. ‘The whole point of our business is to sell cheap crap at an unfeasibly high price,’ said Wine Forgers’ secretary Hoo Ki Red. Council chiefs are considering whether to revoke or restrict the owner's licence. Yellowtail wines is a family-owned and operated wine company based in the small country of Yenda, Australia. Buy high, sell cheapĬhinese authorities believe that the ‘Yellow Tail’ might actually have been put together from unsold bottles of Penfolds – a situation that would be profoundly embarrassing for the country’s forgery industry. Select Express on Warwick Road in Acocks Green had 24 counterfeit bottles of Yellowtail wine for sale. The fraudsters saw their memberships revoked when they were found to be responsible for a vast number of hooky bottles that surfaced in the UK earlier this week.

The team behind thousands of cases of fake Yellow Tail wine have been blackballed from the Chinese Guild of Wine Forgers.

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