See also this thread in members' forum. We are all against wine fraud – right? In the UK my colleague Jim Budd does an admirable job highlighting characters who encourage investment...

See also Howard G Goldberg's report on the latest report in Der Stern.   Wine, liquid and unpredictable, could hardly be easier to doctor unfortunately, even to a standard...

from Mary Garland in Hong Kong: I know PPers have talked about this before, but it seems that everywhere you...

See Julia's notes on Pomerol 2012s on Monday. At the en primeur tasting earlier this month in their very fine new cellar (never mind the size, feel the quality), husband and wife team Jacques...

These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is neither a Laguiole nor a personal cellar consultant, but a lawyer. The buzz of...

Burgundians were shocked yesterday to find three pages of their daily paper, the quaintly named Bien Public , devoted to the news that four of the most senior executives in the region's third...

American wine writer Michael Steinberger has been rather quiet of late as he has been entangled with the Vanity Fair editorial team writing a long article about the Rudy Kurniawan fake-wine...

Concerned by the recent pollution of the fine wine market by counterfeits (just put 'Rudy' in our search box…), and alerted to recent offers of fake malt whiskies supposedly bottled by them in...

15 May - Read a racy 4,000-word account of the story of Rudy to date by Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire's Vinegar , just published in New York magazine, here . I understand that...

When the FBI arrest someone for wine fraud , you know this crime has moved into the mainstream. Rumours about the young, apparently Indonesian wine enthusiast apparently called Rudy Kurniawan...

Billionaire Bill Koch  (pictured) has been trying to sue New York-based auctioneers Acker, Merrall & Condit for some years now over what he alleged was a case of selling fake wine....

It's official: JancisRobinson.com is 'a popular wine blog', at least according to point 56 of this 40-page detailed accusation levelled at wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan by the FBI's fine...

See also Rudy - pictures and details , and the Wine fraud thread in our Members' forum.  As reported here in yesterday's New York Times , the young Indonesian wine collector and...

Southern California physician Harin Padma-Nathan first tasted the famously rich Château Pétrus thanks to his mother-in-law and, after one of the drugs he was involved in developing became a...

Gavin Monery is a winemaker with 10 years' experience, including stints at JL Chave in Hermitage and Cullen and Moss Wood in Margaret River. Since 2008 he has worked for Roberson Wines in...