Category: New This Week

The second update of March is all about news stories. Check out the stories below to see all different kinds of wine fraud throughout the world. Counterfeiting, wine investment fraud, heists, and copyright lookalikes all dominated the headlines. NEW THIS WEEK: NAFDAC Locks Wine Store in Wuse Market, Abuja…

Vivino launches a new concept that allows easier online purchases and recommendations similar to a Netflix style, but for wines. As with all online purchases of wines, consumers need to be wary of where they are buying their wines from. Read more about it here.

a 25 year old man in England admitted to defrauding elderly customers by taking wine collections and money and using them for his own personal use. Read more about it here.

Fake bottles of Petrus with clearly fake labels were found at the wine Fair in Chengdu. Read more about it here.

China-Briefing shows how the Chinese wine industry is changing, what to look for, and discusses fraud. Read more about it here.

A gang responsible for thefts of about 16,000 bottles of wine, and raiding cheese factories has been arrested in Italy. Read more about it here.

Nigerian wine shops were closed after finding that they were selling fake and unregistered products including wines that were not deemed healthy to drink. Read more about it here.

Sothebys pulled a magnum of 1959 Romanée-Conti from it's London sale later this month after questions of it's authenticity due to a strip label started to fill comments sections regarding the sale. From the picture, the bottle has a Joseph Drouhin strip label, and questions of why this would occur.…

The first update in March has a ton of great information for our members. Maureen Downey delivers her Recommended Reading List, which has her favorite wine books she's read included. Also featured are some new stories about wine fraud around the world: a Rudy Kurniawan DRC Case that has mysteriously…

Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas is offering a $5K hamburger at their restaurant, Fleur, but the burger itself isn't the best part. The $5K includes a bottle of 1995 Petrus and the bottle comes as a souvenir. So counterfeiters can get a burger and an authentic bottle to refill- take…