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Wine fraud – a self-defence class
Counterfeit wine is a reality; here's how to protect yourself from being duped. Pictured above is one of seven bottles of de Vogüé Musigny Blanc 1962 withdrawn from Spectrum Wine...
Tamlyn Currin
Monday 25 September 2023
• 1 min read
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Truth can be stranger than fiction. We have a bit of both in these two final book reviews. For all...
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22 September We are republishing free Tam's review of this new documentary film currently shown in UK cinemas (see below)...
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Some years are unarguably more momentous than others. The question is whether we can really recognise them without the benefit...
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A slightly shorter version of this article was also published in the Financial Times. When she wanted hands-on winemaking experience...
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The wine trade would dearly love the whole issue of fake wine to disappear. I keep thinking of Aubert de...
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Not since the Mondavi brothers faced each other in a San Francisco courtroom has there been so much drama in...
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These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is...
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American wine writer Michael Steinberger has been rather quiet of late as he has been entangled with the Vanity Fair...
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15 May – Read a racy 4,000-word account of the story of Rudy to date by Benjamin Wallace, author of...
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It's official: JancisRobinson.com is 'a popular wine blog', at least according to point 56 of this 40-page detailed accusation levelled...
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See also Rudy – pictures and details, and the Wine fraud thread in our Members' forum. As reported here in...
Alder on America
We are publishing Alder's February contribution a little early this month, in time for the controversial wine auction scheduled for...
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16 Sep – Updated below and see a very interesting light on the subject of authenticating old rare wine on...
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Billionaire William Koch, who is already engaged in a lengthy pursuit of Hardy Rodenstock over the allegedly fake Thomas Jefferson...
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Anyone remotely interested in fine wine should read this excellent article on Wine Spectator's website. Energetically run by the relatively...
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'Mr Big' has of course turned out to be Rudy Kurniawan, now being pursued by Bill Koch, as outlined in...
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