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Lafite's Chinese wine unveiled at last
A shorter version of this article about a long-awaited launch in China is published by the Financial Times. Château Lafite is the most famous of the Bordeaux first growths, so...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 6 July 2019
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China v Bordeaux – games people play
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 7 November 2015
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. It was now time for us to leave...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. Under client instructions we returned to Changli, Yantai...
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Nick Bartman, counterfeit-specialist lawyer, as a follow-up to his shocking discoveries in 2010, writes a riveting five-part account of his...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. At the time all my discoveries to date...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. In 2010 wine was providing new and exciting...
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You may remember Nick Bartman, the counterfeit-specialist lawyer who was responsible for all those jaw-dropping pictures in our series on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.I don't know about other wine lovers...
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More jaw-dropping images from China via Nick Bartman, who is trying to galvanise the wine trade into action against fraud...
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This is a guide to the collection of images we have published over the last week showing typical examples of...
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This is the last of our series of six pictorial reports on the current state of the wine market in...
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Lawyer Nick Bartman reports that one big problem in the burgeoning Chinese wine market is the prevalence of liquids being...
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This week we continue our series showcasing some of lawyer Nick Bartman's finds during a five-week tour of China. The...
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Yesterday in Fakes in China 1 – Lafite of course we saw some instances of bottles of wine on sale...
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The Chinese are brilliant at lots of things, not least creating fakes of successful brands. Many Chinese cities have whole...
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