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...

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...

The Atlantic ocean has always represented a gulf in the fine-wine market, but the gulf has deepened, and widened, considerably of late. Now that Hong Kong has become such an important centre for...

Even before we published the recent MW dissertation on counterfeit wine  and before Mike Steinberger's long expose of yet more likely fraud in the US wine market was published on...

Should you by any chance manage to pass the challenging final Master of Wine exams - and Richard's recent account relates only to the exams at the end of the first year of preparatory studies...

Lawyer Nick Bartman, who supplied all the photographs in our recent revealing series on the sort of questionable business practices now commonplace in the rapidly developing Chinese wine...

Yesterday in Fakes in China 1 - Lafite of course we saw some instances of bottles of wine on sale in China purporting, rather vainly, to be the ever-popular Ch Lafite (see Lafite in China...

The Chinese are brilliant at lots of things, not least creating fakes of successful brands. Many Chinese cities have whole shopping complexes devoted, for example, to selling cheap copies of...

16 Dec – According to one report, a total of five hectares in Castellina in Chianti has been sequestered by the authorities. This is prime Chianti Classico land, but the five hectares are not...

The pace of investigation into fake wines seems to be hotting up with Bill Koch relentlessly pursuing all that he thinks have sold him fraudulent bottles. See the latest  Wine Spectator...

I am told that there is another major incident  in the American fine wine market involving a very considerable consignment of wine sold by one individual to another in the US. Auction house A...

16 Sep - Updated below and see a very interesting light on the subject of authenticating old rare wine on our members' forum . I must say I'm amazed that there has not been more...

Billionaire William Koch, who is already engaged in a lengthy pursuit of Hardy Rodenstock over the allegedly fake Thomas Jefferson bottles, filed an official complaint in Los Angeles yesterday...