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Inside information 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 Pictured above is one of seven bottles of de Vogüé Musigny Blanc 1962 withdrawn from Spectrum Wine...

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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
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Free for all Sour Grapes – the movie 22 September We are republishing free Tam's review of this new documentary film currently shown in UK cinemas (see below)... Read more
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Alder on America 2014 – worth celebrating Some years are unarguably more momentous than others. The question is whether we can really recognise them without the benefit... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Free for all How Rudy did it 15 May – Read a racy 4,000-word account of the story of Rudy to date by Benjamin Wallace, author of... Read more
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Free for all Rudy – pictures and details It's official: JancisRobinson.com is 'a popular wine blog', at least according to point 56 of this 40-page detailed accusation levelled... Read more
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Free for all FBI arrest Rudy Kerniawan See also Rudy – pictures and details, and the Wine fraud thread in our Members' forum. As reported here in... Read more
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Alder on America Don Cornwell – the fine-wine bidder's hero We are publishing Alder's February contribution a little early this month, in time for the controversial wine auction scheduled for... Read more
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Inside information The strange case of Acker & Rudy 16 Sep – Updated below and see a very interesting light on the subject of authenticating old rare wine on... Read more
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Free for all Koch goes for Rudy Billionaire William Koch, who is already engaged in a lengthy pursuit of Hardy Rodenstock over the allegedly fake Thomas Jefferson... Read more
Free for all Ponsot pulls plug on Acker Anyone remotely interested in fine wine should read this excellent article on Wine Spectator's website. Energetically run by the relatively... Read more
Free for all That crazy, single-owner Acker sale 'Mr Big' has of course turned out to be Rudy Kurniawan, now being pursued by Bill Koch, as outlined in... Read more