Tag: wine fraud
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Reg’s Wine Blog – Post # 48 – Wine Fraud, Happens More Than You Think, June 23, 2017.
If you subscribe to Netflix then take the time to watch the documentary “Sour Grapes”, it is all about the wine con artist Rudy Kurniawan, originally from Jakarta, who came to America in the early 2000’s and promptly began to execute the largest wine fraud in modern times, for which he was tried and convicted…
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Reg’s Wine Blog – Post # 29, September 22, 2016 – Rebouchage, Recorking, Reconditioning, a discontinued practice.
For years the top Bordeaux estates conducted a service to their clients called Rebouchage, where old bottles were reconditioned and recorked. Probably the most devoted service was provided by Chateau Lafite Rothschild who would send their cellar master to various cities in The United States, England and Germany to conduct clinics where owners of vintages…
