Category: Wine Fraud In the News

An Italian winery woke to find 400,000 bottles worth of wine drained from the stainless steel tanks on their property. No suspects have been found, and no other damage to the property was made. Read more about it here.

Phillip Moulin discusses authentic wines and how he keeps Berry Brothers & Rudd on top of protecting themselves from counterfeiters. Read more about it here.

Amarone wines in Italy were just recalled due to counterfeiting after Black Friday sales. Read more about it here.

The end of November was a very busy time for WineFraud.com! We hosted the launch of the Chai Wine Vault powered by Everledger and hosted our Presentation and Training Level I in London. The events have been huge successes and we are so happy to see the industry welcome the…

A ring of spirits counterfeiters were arrested in China after a month long investgation. Ten people were arrested for refilling bottles of spirits, up to about $3M worth of counterfeit drinks. Read more about it here.

Bottles of wine, OWCs and more will be auctioned off on Saturday for the open public from the Premier Cru offices. Read more about it here.

TWE, the parent of Penfolds has filed a complaint about fake wines being sold in the marketplace such as Alibaba. In an effort to keep only authentic wines able to be sold, the company is trying to reduce the fakes with companies that do not do authentications. Read more about…

For the second November update, we have hundreds of new pictures of authentic and counterfeit wines, bottles and ink for members to look at. New vintages and new wines that we haven't had before help fill in our extremely packed producer section. We also have a new blog from Siobhan…

Francois-Marie-Marret was recently sentences to two years in prison for wine fraud in Bordeaux, but he isn't the only one that is creating wine fraud. Luckily, there are people that are happy to do the work to ensure that the wine that is marketed as fine wine, is exactly that.…

Maureen Downey writes for Wine-Searcher about wine investments, what to look for, and her outlook on investing. Read more about it here.