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Free for all Cecilia Muldoon – a driving force Profile of a most unusual scientist entrepreneur with wine in her sights. A version of this article is published by... Read more

Book reviews Book reviews – stories 2 Truth can be stranger than fiction. We have a bit of both in these two final book reviews. For all... Read more

Hemming's spittoon The supreme power of prestige History doesn’t recall what H C Robbins Landon asked for in the Christmas of 1993. Perhaps, like so many others... Read more

Free for all ​1947 – a magically faulty vintage 12 October 2017 We're making this article free to provide a bit of vicarious enjoyment of the ancients. 9 October... Read more

Hemming's spittoon Copyright or copywrong? ‘European Foods Ltd manufacture probably the best tasting cheese alternative in Europe. We can add mature cheddar for a real... Read more

Free for all A novel suggestion for smashing wine fraud Nick Bartman, the lawyer specialising in anti-counterfeiting who was responsible for our riveting series on Chinese fakery, has a simple... Read more

Free for all Downey – routing the fakers A slightly shorter version of this article was also published in the Financial Times. When she wanted hands-on winemaking experience... Read more

Free for all How to be a wine faker The wine trade would dearly love the whole issue of fake wine to disappear. I keep thinking of Aubert de... Read more

Free for all Antique Wine Co responds The following is a statement by Stephen Wlliams of The Antique Wine Company in response to the lawsuit described in... Read more

Free for all British fine-wine merchant sued over 1787 Yquem Later that same day: Stephen Williams responds here. Lawyers acting for Atlanta real-estate developer Julian LeCraw Jr filed a 59-page... Read more

Alder on America What did Rudy ruin? Not since the Mondavi brothers faced each other in a San Francisco courtroom has there been so much drama in... Read more

Inside information Security innovation at Le Pin See Julia's notes on Pomerol 2012s on Monday. At the en primeur tasting earlier this month in their very fine... Read more

Alder on America Grape pickings for US lawyers These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is... Read more

Inside information Labouré-Roi accused of widespread fraud Burgundians were shocked yesterday to find three pages of their daily paper, the quaintly named Bien Public, devoted to the... Read more

Free for all Rudy in Vanity Fair American wine writer Michael Steinberger has been rather quiet of late as he has been entangled with the Vanity Fair... Read more

Free for all Berrys offer authentication service Concerned by the recent pollution of the fine wine market by counterfeits (just put 'Rudy' in our search box…), and... Read more