Peter Hellman

In Vino Duplicitas

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As seen on ABC’s The Con, an “engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery” that duped some of the biggest names in the elite world of wine collecting (Wall Street Journal)
In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the privileged world of ultrafine wines. Blessed with a virtuoso palate, and with a seemingly limitless supply of coveted bottles, Kurniawan quickly became the leading purveyor of rare wines to the American elite. But in April 2008, at a New York auction house, dozens of Kurniawan's trophy bottles were abruptly pulled from sale.
Journalist Peter Hellman was there, and he began to investigate: Were the bottles fake? Were there others? And was Kurniawan himself duped by forgery…or had he ensnared the world's top winemakers, sellers, and drinkers in a web of deceit?
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337 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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    And so we bonded. Wine can do that.
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    Each of these “torpedoes,” as these big bottles are sometimes called, would have sold at auction for the same money that could have bought a fully equipped Prius. And each would soon come to a violent end.
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    In its molten state, sealing wax has been

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