Watch what you post at review sites on the internet:

Suit: Wine expert created blog to trash Yelp critic

BY LISA DONOVAN  AND ALLISON HORTON Staff Reporters January 12, 2012 12:20PM

A Chicago woman who took her complaints about a local sommelier and his food and wine pairing class to the Internet said she got more than a taste of revenge from the businessman.

Cecelia Groark’s post on Yelp, the popular online review site, about Bottled Grapes in Albany Park allegedly yielded an angry response from owner Krunch Kretschmar, an internationally known sommelier. She claims he started a blog about her that accused her of “embezzling” from her employer, of having a drug addiction and of “turning to the oldest profession to gain funds need[ed] to support her habits.”

The online battle is detailed in a lawsuit Groark filed this week in Cook County Circuit Court that accuses Kretschmar of posting “malicious and false statements” and seeks more than $650,000 in damages for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

more at: http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/9970014-418/suit-wine-expert-created-blog-to-trash-yelp-critic.html]

WBBM radio report on this story: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/13/lawsuit-wine-expert-lashed-out-at-woman-after-bad-yelp-review/


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This guy seems to be a wacko based on the above story and his replies to negative reviews at yelp.com.  Read the reviews and his responses to the negative ones.:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/bottled-grapes-chicago