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Rudy Kurniawan (born Zhen Wang Huang; 10 October 1976) is an Indonesian convicted criminal and perpetrator of wine fraud. [2]He was found to be offering more magnums of the limited edition 1947 Château Lafleur than had been produced, and his Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru was labelled with a fictitious vintage.
Counterfeit wine is also found in the West, although primarily a problem for collectors of rare wine. Famous examples of counterfeiting include the case of Hardy Rodenstock , who was involved with the so-called "Jefferson bottles," [ 33 ] and Rudy Kurniawan , who was indicted in March 2012 for attempting to sell faked bottles of La Tâche from ...
Rudy Kurniawan was a rich Indonesian wine collector with a fascination for Burgundy, and he spent millions of dollars on wine and also sold countless bottles of fake wine. Acker Merrall & Condit, an auction company, broke records by selling US$35 million worth of Kurniawan's wines in 2006 (equivalent to about $53M in 2023).
Elsewhere, a rare six-liter bottle of 1982 Château Pétrus, a Bourdeaux red described by Sotheby’s as having “legendary status amongst wine collectors,” is expected to fetch up to $65,000.
125 vintages of Château d'Yquem were the subject of Rodenstock's most famous tasting in 1998 (a bottle of vintage 1973 is pictured) Meinhard Görke, [1] known as Hardy Rodenstock (7 December 1941 – 19 May 2018 [2]) was a German publisher and manager of pop and Schlager music, and a prominent wine collector, connoisseur, and trader, with a special interest in old and rare wines. [3]
The 1985 Austrian diethylene glycol wine scandal (German: Glykolwein-Skandal) was an incident in which several Austrian wineries illegally adulterated their wines using the toxic substance diethylene glycol (a minor ingredient in some brands of antifreeze) to make the wines taste sweeter and more full-bodied in the style of late harvest wines. [1]
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.
Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005), was a court case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in a 5–4 decision that ruled that laws in New York and Michigan that permitted in-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers but prohibited out-of-state wineries from doing the same were unconstitutional.