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On the morning of the Tasting portion, one of the candidates, Elton Nichols, recalled later receiving an email from Reggie Narito, at the time vice president for fine wines at California-based Young's Market Company [12] and not only a Master Sommelier, but a member of the Court's board and one of the exam proctors that day. The subject line ...
Expensive and highly collectable wines such as the French Bordeaux wine from Château Pétrus are often the target of wine fraud. Wine fraud relates to the commercial aspects of wine. The most prevalent type of fraud is one where wines are adulterated, usually with the addition of cheaper products (e.g. juices) and sometimes with harmful ...
The principal annual event of the Confrérie is the tasting of Burgundy wines, called Tastevinage, at the Château du Clos de Vougeot, when wines deemed worthy by a jury of tasters are awarded the accolade of Tasteviné and are permitted to use a special label on their bottles. [5]
Kurniawan began buying and selling large amounts of rare wines in the early part of the 2000s, [8] spending as much as $1 million a month buying auction lots by 2006. [6] [9] At the same time, he began hosting tastings of rare wines with other collectors; he showed so much affinity for the ultraluxury Burgundy producer, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, at these events that he became known as "Dr ...
Robert McDowell Parker Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a retired American wine critic. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines.
LA bakery owner takes big financial hit after receiving scam order of 1,000 cupcakes, paid for with a $7.5K counterfeit check — her bank’s promise of protection fell through Danielle Antosz ...
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 $55M in 2024). In 2008, the firm ...
The pump switching scam, which is one of the newer scams, targets people using credit cards to pay at the pump. The scammers have been approaching unsuspecting victims at the gas pump to offer to ...