Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

THERE was startling news last week in London-based trade paper The Drinks Business.

It reported that Professor Roger Corder, author of The Wine Diet, had spoken out against red wines sold in supermarkets saying they were “cheap imposters” and “little more than white wines pretending to be red...”

Wine fans, and connoisseurs of media nonsense, will be suspicious of such general sweeping statements. If they read on, they will discover that such vague suggestive statements are the stock-in-trade of Corder who is, by the way, involved in a wine retailer which happens not to be a supermarket. There aren’t any untruths in that article nor, as far as I know, in Prof Corder’s other outlets, including his Vinopic website — but they are so stripped of context as to be utterly misleading.