Author: Chelsea Snare

Fake bottles of Petrus with clearly fake labels were found at the wine Fair in Chengdu. Read more about it here.

China-Briefing shows how the Chinese wine industry is changing, what to look for, and discusses fraud. Read more about it here.

A gang responsible for thefts of about 16,000 bottles of wine, and raiding cheese factories has been arrested in Italy. Read more about it here.

Nigerian wine shops were closed after finding that they were selling fake and unregistered products including wines that were not deemed healthy to drink. Read more about it here.

Sothebys pulled a magnum of 1959 Romanée-Conti from it's London sale later this month after questions of it's authenticity due to a strip label started to fill comments sections regarding the sale. From the picture, the bottle has a Joseph Drouhin strip label, and questions of why this would occur.…

The first update in March has a ton of great information for our members. Maureen Downey delivers her Recommended Reading List, which has her favorite wine books she's read included. Also featured are some new stories about wine fraud around the world: a Rudy Kurniawan DRC Case that has mysteriously…

Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas is offering a $5K hamburger at their restaurant, Fleur, but the burger itself isn't the best part. The $5K includes a bottle of 1995 Petrus and the bottle comes as a souvenir. So counterfeiters can get a burger and an authentic bottle to refill- take…

This week's update includes new galleries, new blogs, and information about how important provenance is. A blog about Alexander Anikin and Mahatma Wines selling counterfeit wines has details about the wines, as well as information about their arrest. We also added in two new pages to our Recreate Section of…

Two men in London and Essex were sentenced to prison for wine fraud charges. The men, Thomas Hole and Ryan Fraser,  ran Premium Wine Investment Limited which offered investments in fine Bordeaux. Instead of using clients money for wine investments, the two men were pocketing all of the savings. Read…

A wine expert in Melbourne, Lak Quach, is under investigation for stealing his employer's wine. Quach is suspected to have stolen $300,000 worth of wine and then sold it to buy wines for himself. Read more about it here.