A Chinese millionaire paid US$10,000 for a glass of fake 1868 whisky. But he’s not the only victim of the counterfeit whisky wave
- Almost 40 per cent of ‘rare vintage’ whiskies tested by Scottish experts were either fake or distilled in different years than they were labelled
- One expert said that in 30 years of testing he had never found a single genuine bottle of pre-1900 whisky
A whisky dealer has warned that the rare whisky market has been flooded with fakes after laboratory tests found one-third of samples were counterfeit.
The Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) found that 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintage Scotch whisky, some apparently worth tens of thousands of pounds, were either fake or were not distilled in the year claimed.
The Guardian Published: 4:48am, 21 Dec, 2018
Italian police find 9,000 bottles of fake Moët champagne in Padova
In 2016, Italian authorities seized 9,000 bottles of fake Moët Chandon. Discovered in a shed in Padua in northern Italy, the faux Champagne—actually sparkling table wine—had a retail value of $375,000. There was also a cache of 40,000 fake Moët labels, worth close to $2 million. The Italian police are becoming expert at spotting fake wines. Two years earlier, they seized 30,000 bottles of counterfeit Brunello and Chianti Classico in a raid in central Italy.
By Kate KraderJanuary 19, 2017, 4:36 PM GMT-2 Corrected January 19, 2017, 9:23 PM GMT-2
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