Name? Check. Wine List? Check. Bricks & Mortar?...
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What happens when a prestigious organization bestows an award upon a non-existent restaurant? Yikes. Sure it had a name and a decent, mostly Italian wine list to go with its submission, plus the $250 fee, but it had no real address! This is exactly what happened recently when Wine Spectator handed out its Award of Excellence to a phony. As a sort of experiment the applicant, Mr. Robin Goldstein, created this submission to discover for himself the standards applied to the Award of Excellence -- and was discouraged by his findings. His disappointment wasn't just because the award had gone to a fictitious entity but that his reserve wine list which was included in the award included some of the Wine Spectator's lowest scoring Italian wines from the past twenty years! Not looking so prestigious anymore...
