Episode 16 recap: Suspicions grow over the wine challenge controversy as one contestant wonders if it's 'like another cheating scandal'

With just 48 hours left to produce a master bedroom and walk-in robe, there's plenty for our Blockheads to do on site.

But Ankur and Sharon have more pressing issues – they need to collect an original door they've reclaimed, and they have to go together.

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"I need Anks to come with me because it's a big door, it's 140 years old. Anks doesn't feel comfortable with me having a long drive," Sharon explains. 

And despite Ankur and Sharon's recent run in with their head builder Liam, Ankur is confident he'll be happy to hold down the fort while they're gone.

"We have really good daily meetings with our team. Everyone is briefed, everyone knows what they're doing. I can't assist the team today regarding framing or plastering, like I'm not qualified to do that," he says. 

Ankur and Sharon are gone for five hours and Foreman Dan isn't happy when he catches wind of the news.

"Why you need two people to go pick up a door is beyond me," he says.  

And it's not the only thing they've done to tick off Dan.

Despite being given two hours in the morning to paint, Ankur and Sharon still haven't painted their walk-in robe. So Sharon wants Kinsman Wardrobes to delay installing their wardrobes until Saturday.

"When you get a contestant expecting it's all about them and demanding they [Kinsman] come in on a Saturday instead of a Friday, that's a big no no," Dan says.

"Who is Sharon to say, 'No you've got to come in tomorrow'?"

Even though they've had problems before, head builder Liam is keeping his frustration under wraps, although Dan suspects that could change.

"I'm not happy how this week has unfolded and I think everyone has stated that. We are massively, massively under the pump," Liam admits.

"Yeah I kind of feel we're a day behind."

But Ankur and Sharon are oblivious to it all. They're also oblivious to the fact that Scott Cam and some of the contestants are suspicious of their Grape Escape challenge win from the day before.

Ankur and Sharon won a wine making challenge and a $50,000 prize after Ankur Googled the ratios of the wine blend they had to replicate. But the pair insist they won because they know so much about wine.

And while the rules didn't say Googling wasn't allowed Scotty asks the question that's on everyone's mind: "If it's not cheating or dishonest then why didn't they say it in their interviews?".

"I've just got something in my gut that says it's wrong a bit," Scotty says to Shelley Craft as they prepare to visit the teams.

Scotty and Shelley press Ankur and Sharon about their wine expertise and give them a chance to fess up.

But Ankur sticks to his guns. "We basically drank a lot of that in Covid, so the 2015 one is the one we smashed. Shaz's dad is a wine grower," he says.

"You should give up your jobs and become wine makers," Scotty teases.

Scotty isn't happy he's "been lied to straight to the face".

He and Shelley make their way around to the other teams to get their take on the "moral dilemma".

Rachel and Ryan already have their own suspicions about Ankur and Sharon's tactics and say "it's not a cheat" but they should "just tell the truth".

Tom and Sarah-Jane also think their hiding the truth means "they think they've broken the rules".

Over in House 4, Dylan and Jenny – who were runners up in the wine blending challenge – know none the wiser about Ankur and Sharon's strategy.

But when Scotty and Shelley plant the idea in their heads, they're in disbelief.

"This is like another cheating scandal," Jenny laughs.

Omar and Oz are on the same wavelength as Scotty and think they should hold another wine tasting challenge to test Ankur and Sharon.

So that's exactly what Scotty does.

The Blockheads come together for a pizza night and a mini wine tasting competition where they have to guess whether the wine is Australian or French.

Scotty throws in an extra test and asks the contestants what wine they're drinking. While everyone else answers "pinot", Ankur says it's a rosé.

"I knew it was a pinot and I said it was a rosé because I had a VB at Tom's house prior," Ankur says, explaining why his palette is off.

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But Dylan and Jenny prove they know the most about wine when they take out the mini challenge win and $1000.

While Dylan and Jenny are happy to be the best wine tasters on The Block, they'll be more interested to be crowned winners of Master Bedroom and Walk-In Robe Week at Room Reveals this Sunday.

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