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Federal jury finds Florida billionaire defrauded by businessman who sold him two dozen bottles of counterfeit vintage wine
cbsnews.com (1 month and 9 days ago)

Poppin' bottles. Energy magnate William Koch is the poster boy for fighting wine fraud. Throughout his years as a collector, he's purchased fraudulent bottles on more than one occasion, and was implicated in what New York deemed "the biggest hoax in history." The plight of one very rich man is now setting an example for the entire wine industry. Koch sued Internet tycoon and...
nymag.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
He planned to drink a glass of wine to celebrate a federal jury's conclusion late Thursday that he was defrauded by a California businessman who sold him two dozen bottles of fake vintage wine at a 2005 auction.
palmbeachpost.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

Self-confessed ladies man James Arthur told a teenage girl to pick herself up a bottle of cheap plonk from the Tesco garage and take a taxi to his home for sex after meeting over Twitter.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 22 days ago)
Some Napa Valley wine industry groups continue to disagree about how Napa County should apply and enforce its 23-year-old Winery Definition Ordinance, particularly on how older wineries should…
napavalleyregister.com (3 months and 4 days ago)

A BILLIONAIRE wine collector alleges some traders are filling vintage wine bottles with cheap substitutes.
news.com.au (1 month and 10 days ago)

The who’s who of Napa Valley’s wine industry gathered en masse Tuesday to pay tribute to vintner James L. Barrett, a man who friends, family and business associates said lived, prayed, played …
napavalleyregister.com (1 month and 19 days ago)

From a wine-and-painting pairing to a live taping of the web TV series 'Wine Booty,' April in the Napa Valley reminds us that art and wine are a match made in the vineyard.
mercurynews.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
Back to the cellar. Hey, all you people who care about what makes good wine taste good, did you know that there have been dozens of unsettling scientific studies conducted over the last decade or so that indicate you really have no idea what you're talking about and you probably don't enjoy anything because you really like the way it tastes? Take the now-infamous experiments...
nymag.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

But decanters sales have also jumped in the past year as cash-strapped shoppers disguise cheap plonk as fine vintages, according to Debenhams.
dailymail.co.uk (28 days ago)
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