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An accused wine swindler once tried to pawn off a counterfeit vintage 1929 French Burgundy — using a label made more than five decades later on a printer from Indonesia, an expert testified Monday.
Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan's home in March 2013, they ...
After two days of wine authentication training, I learned useful tips on how to identify fake wines. With an estimated 20% of fake wines in the market, learn how to become more vigilant in ...
Koch had testified he spent $2.1 million buying 219 fake bottles of wine from Kurniawan and has since spent $25 million on his own “personal crusade” to rid the world of vino counterfeiters.
Counterfeiters fake Burgundy wine worth $12,000 a bottle. October 23, 2013 / 1:07 PM EDT / AP ...
Counterfeiting wine is big business among old and rare vintages. Sip On This: That $10,000 Bottle Of Wine Might Be Fake | KPBS Public Media There's a chance it could be cheap plonk disguised by an ...
The Man Who Duped Millionaires Into Paying Big Bucks For Fake Wine : The Salt Rudy Kurniawan, once considered one of the world's most formidable wine collectors, was convicted Wednesday of making ...
When it comes to buying wine, it's the same as buying any other product. If prices and/or the availability of certain bottles seem too good to be true, they most assuredly are. Why: We have Tenuta ...
We all know you can fake a watch or a handbag, but a wine?It’s a real thing, and much more widespread than you might imagine. Accurate estimates for the scale of the problem are hard to come by ...
$91,000 bottle of wine a fake, Atlantan says Collector sues London broker, seeks $25 million in damages Portions of the lawsuit filed by Atlantan Julian LeCraw Jr. Bottle of 1787 Chateau d'Yquem ...
The counterfeit wine, meanwhile, is produced in Sicily, with the bottles imported from Turkey, and the fake labels — bearing the well-known registered trademark “DOC Bolgheri Sassicaia ...
A criminal network was accused of selling bottles of fake French wine for as much as 15,000 euros. It’s the latest in a growing criminal trend: wine fraud.