Category: Wine Fraud In the News

We've been talking about it for years, but more people are taking note: China is being flooded with counterfeits. Read more about it here.

Empty bottles of well-known fine and rare wines are being sold for exhorbitant amounts of money as counterfeits in China continue to circulate. Counterfeiters can use all of the real parts of the bottle to create a better counterfeit, fetching large sums of money. Read more about it

With the growing demand for wines in China, and the supply not raising to meet these demands, counterfeit wines are continuing to grow in China. Read more about it here.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria discovered nine suspects accused of making fake wines of dangerous ingredients. Read more about it here.

Treasury Wine Estates in Australia just won the right to use the name "Ben Fu" in China as it's wine name. Ben Fu directly translates to Penfolds phonetically in Chinese. Read more about it here.

Happy 2017! In the new year, we have been focused on adding new galleries, wine  crime stories, and have BIG plans for 2017! This update includes counterfeit corks and capsules from some of our favorite producers. We will be adding authentic in our next few updates to give a better…

With the close of 2016, the first full year that WineFraud.com has been open to users, we are excited to close on our bread and butter: IMAGES! The past two weeks have been full of holidays and gallery uploading. We added over 2,000 images this month of inks and bottles,…

With the holidays in full swing, prosecco is in large demand, but Italian authorities are worried that many wines are being sold as prosecco without coming from the correct locations. Read more about it here.

One of the men indicted for the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bottles stolen in the French Laundry restaurant wine heist has pleaded guilty. Read more about it here.

In the first weeks of December, we rounded out a lot of new pictures in our galleries. Some of our favorite producers have new galleries and vintages of both counterfeit and authentic bottles and inks. There are also some fantastic shots of the capsules. We also added three new wine…