Category: Wine Fraud In the News

Louisa Mbadugha was jailed for three and a half years for creating a wine scam that took money and wines. Read more about it here.

Two wineries were told to stop labeling their wines as 'Product of Isreal' as they do not come from that appellation. Investigations as to what these wines should market themselves as, are on-going. Read more about it here.

Just four days after John Kapon of Acker Merrall claimed to have the first authentication team of any auction house and that negative stories, associations with counterfeit wines, and Rudy Kurniawan-like days were long gone and should be forgotten, Acker Merrall settled a case for selling…

Liberty Hall Museum recently knocked down a wall revealing a collection of some of the oldest wines in America. While famed collections are always popping up, the stories, provenance, and prospect of selling the wines recently found, should always be sought with a professional authenticator. Read more about it

The first update of July marks a very busy time for the WineFraud.com group! We are working hard on our training program for authenticators, and this update includes news stories from around the world. NEW THIS WEEK: Centuries Old Wine Collection Found Hidden in New Jersey…

The final update of the month of June includes more galleries of counterfeit and authentic images of wines of great wine producers, as well as a new wine fraud story from around the world. NEW THIS WEEK: Dynasty Fine Wines to Sell $59M Worth of Winery…

Dynasty Fine Wines in China will be selling assets in auction after being suspended from the Hong Kong Exchange for selling expired wines. Read more about it here.

The second update in June includes new authentic and counterfeit images of some of our favorite Bordeaux wine producers both of the bottles and of the ink and print methods. We also have an update of a new story about wine investment fraud. NEW THIS WEEK:

The end of May and beginning of June brought a deluge of images and content regarding Latour and a few other producers. We added over 60 galleries of new photos of authentic and counterfeit examples of bottles and ink in new vintages. An additional story was added regarding the authentic…