Don Cornwell - the fine-wine bidder's hero
7 Feb 2012 by Alder Yarrow
We are publishing Alder's February contribution a little early this month, in time for the controversial wine auction scheduled for tomorrow* night (Wed 8 Feb) in London by Spectrum Wine Auctions of California and Vanquish Wine of London. See details of these two companies here , and some worrying observations about some of the 177 lots on offer in this thread of our forum. Don Cornwell may well be a wine fraudster's worst nightmare – a highly motivated, highly educated and extremely experienced collector who is tired of seeing people pay outrageous sums for fake wine and of auction houses that seem to have no qualms...

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