A court in Shanghai has recently prosecuted three fraudsters who churned out and sold counterfeit Bordeaux wines worth RMB 1.4 million (US$220,174). Read More
Crime
A wine importer in China has been handed a one-year-and-three-month sentence and a hefty fine of RMB 550,000 (US $86,460) for wine smuggling, taking advantage of cross-border e-commerce platforms that more than halved wine taxes. Read More
China’s regional court has convicted four men of counterfeiting Penfolds’ trademark, after uncovering more than 1,140 bottles of fake Penfolds and 500kg of unbottled bulk wines during a police operation last January. Read More
We have rounded up some of the most controversial DRC lots offered at auctions including flagrant fakes and some close-calls. Read More
LA-based lawyer Don Cornwell has raised serious concerns over two large format DRC bottles offered by Acker in Hong Kong, including a world record-breaking methuselah. Even after the wine has been rescinded, doubts still linger. Read More
China’s antitrust watchdog has handed another round of penalties to the country’s tech giants including Alibaba and Tencent that involve investments in two of the country’s leading drinks trading platforms in ongoing crackdown on monopolies. Read More
On Wednesday, the most respected group in the wine industry has expelled six master sommeliers after an independent and external investigation into sexual harassment allegations, including the ‘godfather of US wine’ Fred Dame. Read More
Derided by trade professionals as "Disneyland of fakes", the scale of knockoffs seen at this year's Autumn edition of China Food & Drinks Fair in Tianjin is staggering. We have rounded up some of the worst offenders here from fake DRC to counterfeit Petrus. Read More
A wedding banquet in China’s eastern Shandong province has led police to uncover the biggest fake Bordeaux wine case in China and an elaborate web of deception that fabricated a fictional Baron and a fictitious war with Chateau Lafite Rothschild Read More
Moet lured out an online shop selling fake Dom Perignon Luminous brut but despite court conviction, the fraudster is still very much in business on the country's biggest e-commerce platform. Read More