UK Wine sales

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Romanet, Pieroth, Montesquieu, PRPWines and Jakob Gerhardt are all the same company. It just depends on which country you live in and which portfolio of wines they're selling. Their wine "consultants" are nothing more than telemarketers who are given a script to read from along with a list of the wines they are to sell with glowing notes on the wines. They aren't required to have any knowledge of wines at all, let alone any wine related credentials or experience. They're given a call list to work from, and all they do is read from the script which has directional cues. If the person called replies with a key word on the script, then they go to that section of the script and proceed accordingly. We've found from previous posts that the wines are generally quite ordinary and the prices are above to way above average for the quality of the wine being sold. We suspect that they have people who comb the web for hits on one of their company names and they have people reply (as they have done here several times) with glowing comments about the wines and the service. Occasionally we'll get a reply from someone who's worked for one of the companies and universally they tell us they're all essentially rip offs. So, let's see what this thread brings from the faithful.