Category: New This Week

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.

This week we have added many new exhibits to the Rudy Kurniawan section- more records, documents, and exhibits from his trial to continue to show the magnitude of his scam. We also have four interesting stories from the news around the world, with very different topics. We're always looking for…

Researchers in the Republic of Moldova have found a way to test wines to determine more about the age of the wine which they believe will be a key part of determining the authenticity of wines. Read more about it here.

As we have reported many times before, the risk of scams in wine investments, only to find the business no longer exists, along with their life savings, is still a common fraud circulating the globe. Read more about it here.

Chinese website, JD.com has bottles of fake Lafite for sale- but in the cases of these, the fake labels are misleading and clearly fake. This finding reiterates that the Chinese market is booming for fine wine, but without a clear look at the bottles, consumers may be duped. Read more…

Hong Kong newspapers found two wines for sale on a mobile platform contained no plant-based ingredients, meaning there was in no way grapes used to produced these "wines." While Chinese law requires 100% grapes to be called wine, the absence of any plant material begs the question, "what are these…

An English report of the three men charged for falsifying DRC Bottles, by putting the labels on cheaper bottles. This is one of many examples of why we look at all aspects of the bottle. Read more about it here.