Wine Counterfeiting is a Thing — Is Your Bottle a Fake?

by Siti Zawani @ 11 Dec 2015
Wine Counterfeiting is a Thing — Is Your Bottle a Fake? Wily wine counterfeiters are fooling wine lovers with fake versions of the world's rarest and most expensive wines. According to a report by NPR, the criminals run their own home factories, where they fill bottles with cheap wine and slap on labels for expensive wines. Then they sell those fraudulent bottles to collectors who are desperate to get their hands on those rare bottles, some for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Supposedly even $20 and $30 bottles could be fake too. "You can produce them at huge quantities, and nobody is likely to catch you," Frank Martell, director of fine and rare wine for Heritage Auctions, told NPR. Read the full story at http://goo.gl/xWjK3i