OEM-branded wines will need to state clearly on their Chinese wine labels if they are bottled on the shores of China with the newly revised customs regulations.
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Auction house Bonhams has pulled out the entire A-1 Fine Wines Sale of 607 lots, which was touted as "one of Asia's most encyclopedic wine collections," from last Saturday's auction, due to overwhelming allegations of fake wines. Read More
American auction house Zachys is thrust in to the center of an ongoing scandal that alleges it sold a bottle of fake jeroboam of 1999 Domaine Romanée Conti La Tâche. Read More
Failures of accountability from merchants and e-commerce platform pushed one wine consumer to seek justice on his own. Read More
A wine merchant in Central China’s Jiangxi province has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling fake Penfolds, the popular wine brand that has become a household name in China. Read More
The Shandong High Court upheld previous trial court decision handed down last July that found Yantai Bai Qi Wine Company infringed legal intellectual property rights of Bordeaux, and engaged in unfair competition by selling fake Bordeaux wines. Read More
A video showing the production of fake Château La Tour Carnet, a grand cru classe estate in Bordeaux, has caused uproar in Chinese wine trade. Read More
DBR Lafite has won a landmark lawsuit against two copycat brands for infringing its trademark rights within China, a win for the French wine conglomerate. Read More