Dynasty Fine Wines to Sell $59M Worth of Winery Assets
Dynasty Fine Wines in China will be selling assets in auction after being suspended from the Hong Kong Exchange for selling expired wines. Read more about it here.
Author: Chelsea Snare
NEW THIS WEEK: June 15, 2017
The second update in June includes new authentic and counterfeit images of some of our favorite Bordeaux wine producers both of the bottles and of the ink and print methods. We also have an update of a new story about wine investment fraud. NEW THIS WEEK:
Hoddesdon Fraudster Jailed for Stealing Thousands from Wine Investors
Two men were jailed for their activity in a wine investment scam. Abu Hanifa and Onur Kemal Aslan are the most recent criminals to be charged for stealing investment money from unsuspecting collectors without ever receiving wines for their money. Read more about it here.
NEW THIS WEEK: June 1, 2017
The end of May and beginning of June brought a deluge of images and content regarding Latour and a few other producers. We added over 60 galleries of new photos of authentic and counterfeit examples of bottles and ink in new vintages. An additional story was added regarding the authentic…
Food Fraud: High Roller of the Crime Scene
Crime rings are turning away from drugs and weapons for food and wine frauds, as they are lucrative with a low chance of risk. With estimates of 50% of counterfeit wines in China, wine producers, especially in Australia, are frightened for their brands. Read more about it
Under Investigation: Producer Information
The Producer Information section is an exclusive resource for WineFraud.com members. Here, producer profiles detail how the most counterfeited wines in the world are made, what makes the producers special, different from other wines, and insight into why these wines are targeted by counterfeiters. Thousands of images of wine, both…
Under Investigation: Other Wine Frauds
Wine Fraud is an umbrella term for the various ways that fraud has impacted the wine industry. While the most documented cases of wine fraud are about counterfeited wine, there are many other types of wine fraud. Wine investment frauds have become increasingly common, storage frauds which include the storage…
Under Investigation: Rudy Kurniawan
Rudy Kurniawan, one of the most prolific wine counterfeiters in the history of wine, created an image for himself and created a reputation for having the best wines in the world to bring to auction. When Maureen Downey and the Chai Consulting team catalogued the evidence from the case, they…
Under Investigation: Wine Authentication
The Wine Authentic section is the most extensive, detailed, and complete resource for wine authentication available anywhere. How counterfeit wines are created, top to bottom, each of the aspect of authentication, and what details to look for. Wine Authentication is about understanding the history, the producers, and how these pieces…