Is VeriVin The Holy Grail To Fight Wine Fraud?

Is VeriVin The Holy Grail To Fight Wine Fraud?

Share to Linkedin Rudy Kurniawan, Hardy Rodenstock, The White Club are only some of the most famous ones. Many more names have this thing in common: They bring to mind wine fraud. Fake wine. Ridiculously expensive bottles that are not what they pretend to be, that's often what one thinks of when talking about wine fraud. A bottle of Yquem from 1784 found behind a brick wall in a Paris cellar. A rare Clos St. Denis from the exclusive Domaine Ponsot in Burgundy sold at auction in New York, but from a vintage when the domain didn't make any wine. Romanée Conti from Domaine de la Romanée Conti, the world's most expensive wine, in a bottle with a torn label, with curiously the same tear at more than one tasting. But, in fact, this is just the most spectacular type of wine fraud. It also happens at the other end of the scale, really cheap wine. For example, the French wine merchant who sold the equivalent of 18 million bottles of Pinot Noir to an American winery to go into a cheap wine blended in the US. The issue: there was not that much Pinot Noir made in the whole