Author: Chelsea Snare

Wine Fraud is an umbrella term for the various ways that fraud has impacted the wine industry. While the most documented cases of wine fraud are about counterfeited wine, there are many other types of wine fraud. Wine investment frauds have become increasingly common, storage frauds which include the storage…

Rudy Kurniawan, one of the most prolific wine counterfeiters in the history of wine, created an image for  himself and created a reputation for having the best wines in the world to bring to auction. When Maureen Downey and the Chai Consulting team catalogued the evidence from the case, they…

The Wine Authentic section is the most extensive, detailed, and complete resource for wine authentication available anywhere. How counterfeit wines are created, top to bottom, each of the aspect of authentication, and what details to look for. Wine Authentication is about understanding the history, the producers, and how these pieces…