Category: Wine Fraud In the News

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.

A value of $1.5M has been found and three men were charged in Dijon for making fake DRC. The men appear to be in a crime ring that spans Italy to Russia. Please note, this article is in French. Read more about it here.

This week's update has two main focuses: China and Rudy Kurniawan. As we gear up for our Training in Hong Kong, many are realizing that China is becoming a hot bed for counterfeit wines. For the Rudy Kurniawan section, we are in the process of adding many new pieces of…