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martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:19 am

seems our very own little wine maker Sir Cliff, has been caught out....
well next time I buy a bottle of sir cliffs "summer holiday" plonk , I will send it straight back to the wine waiter and ask for my money back.

read here

Chef Gordon Ramsay managed to get Cliff Richard to say the F word on his program of the same name.

Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef that everyone loves to hate, now has a new enemy: Sir Cliff Richard.
The singer-turned wine maker agreed to take part in a blind wine tasting on Ramsay's British TV show, The F Word.
The UK's Daily Mail reports that Richard thought the first wine Ramsay gave him to taste was "amazing".
"Of course it was, it was a £400 ($1000) a bottle," Ramsay is reported as saying later at a launch party for the show.
The second wine did not go down so well.
"I told him it was a sort of £12.99 bottle and Cliff said, 'That's rubbish. I wouldn't pay for that, it's tainted, it's insipid. It tastes like vinaigrette. I'd never buy that,'" Ramsay quoted him as saying.
I told him, 'Cliff, that was your wine' and, well, f*** me, he went off. Bananas. He lent over and [beckoned me towards him] with his finger and said, 'Young man, go f*** yourself.'"
To add insult to injury, Ramsay said that he is actually using the wine for vinaigrette in his restaurant at upmarket Claridges.
"I got 75 bottles for free and it really is going down tremendously well with the tuna," he said

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:25 am

forgot to add the link in case any doubt about the value of their cliff plonk depreciating in value now - well would you but a case from him now?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:57 pm

I am not standing up for Sir Cliff, but I don't think it was a very fair thing to do, I would like to see anyone taste a glass of £400 wine and then drink anything else without it tasting like a very nasty cheap glass of plonk!

I personally don't like the wine of Sir Cliff as I don't like 'oaked' red wine, but this was not a fair test.

Also I must say 'go Cliff' Gordon Ramsey is a foul mouthed tyrant.
I know of someone who used to work in one of his kitchens and he said that he was really offensive and downright rude, making it almost a pleasure to see people who worked for him cry or squirm.

Michael Crane · Post by **Michael Crane** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:09 pm

I think Ramsay is just a bully. If Sharen worked for him and he treated her badly I'd be round to his caff and plonk him one!

Graham · Post by **Graham** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:11 pm

I read the Mail article this morning and then heard Ramsey on the radio speaking about the event - talk about two different sides to the story!

I got the feeling that Sir Cliff and Gordon actually got on, and it was a practical joke by Gordon that Sir Cliff seems to take in good spirit.

Odd it seems the Daily Mail chose to sensationalise it - I thought they were such an honest newspaper

Mike Banks · Post by **Mike Banks** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:44 pm

Odd it seems the Daily Mail chose to sensationalise it - I thought they were such an honest newspaper

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Is there such a thing as an honest newspaper - I don't think so, and I certainly have never regarded the Daily Mail as one!

Graham · Post by **Graham** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:09 pm

Mike - I think I had better remove tongue from cheek!