Authenticate My Wine
“Maureen’s advice is sound. She is the Queen of sniffing out fakes”
Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW
Whether concerned about a single bottle of wine or an entire cellar of them, pondering purchasing fine and rare bottles, or curious about bottles purchased decades ago, we determine authenticity, health, and thus investment value/saleability of bottles. Independent, third-party authentication protects investment, mitigates purchase risk, and assists in attaining remuneration for bad/counterfeit or out of condition bottles.
- Fine and rare wine markets are flooded with old and rare and recent release counterfeit bottles
- New, better counterfeits are being made and sold every day
- Counterfeits seep in, permeating even legitimate sales channels and are sold by unknowing, uneducated, careless, or dishonest vendors
- Counterfeits are sold in every sector: brokers, retailers, online sales platforms, even some online and live auctions
- Shockingly, unscrupulous vendors take vetted counterfeits back from aware buyers and resell them to unsuspecting new buyers
For information, rates and quotes, please contact us at info@winefraud.com
We can travel to you, or you can send bottles into one of our trusted storage partners or Certified TCM™ authenticators around the world for inspection. If you need help arranging shipping, our logistics partner, Xpeditr, is ready to help.
GDV Fine Wines- Hong Kong
Real Wine, Florida, USA
67 Pall Mall- London, UK
Wine Logistics- UK
The Wine Auction Room- Auckland, Australia
Beaune, France – please inquire
If you have bottles to be inspected, please contact us at info@winefraud.com
Inspection And Reporting
Bottle inspections follow The Chai Method™, Maureen Downey’s proprietary systematic inspection method employing state-of-the-art, forensic investigation, assessment, and analysis techniques. Findings are delivered in either Verbal Reports for pre-purchase, or initial sample of larger cellars, or Formal Written Reports for pre-sale authentication verification to use in bottles’marketing, or for remuneration of bad purchases.
Chai Vault Input
Bottles deemed authentic or consistent with known authentic examples and production standards, are certified in our groundbreaking, blockchain-secured, digital ledger, the Chai Vault. TCM™ inspection and bottle data, photographs and provenance information are registered and a bottle’s individual blockchain Ledger of Authenticity & Provenance. Future resellers can post a bottle’s URL Ledger so potential buyers can see the authenticity and provenence information online, prior to purchase. New buyers can have Ledgers updated with their purchase information to keep the provenance chain unbroken.
For more information about reporting, or Chai Vault input, please contact us at info@winefraud.com
More information about Chai Vault, here.
