A tale of Moueix and Lafite, Chinese style
29 Jul 2010 by Jancis Robinson
More jaw-dropping images from China via Nick Bartman, who is trying to galvanise the wine trade into action against fraud and fakery via his Wine Protection Group (see more detail in Fighting fraud in China ). As he says, 'This relentless and escalating trend of Chinese fakery is destroying the new Chinese wine drinkers' market. Chinese new to wine don't stand a chance of working out that all this is fake, let alone realising they are not even drinking Bordeaux wine to start with. But if they click around the internet they will find these Eiffel Tower and Ministry of Agriculture logos and, having done so, they are then...

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