Spoofalated. Scornful term invented by old-line winemakers to describe any wine so bombastic and overmanipulated by man—usually via excessive oak usage, but sometimes by way of overripeness or MICRO-OXYGENATION—that it lacks any discernible VARIETAL character. I couldn’t bring myself to tell Dad that the Chilean wine he so proudly gets by the case from Costco is a ghastly, overbearing, spoofalated grape beverage.
