Fake Wine! What Next?
Posted on March 6, 2007
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The Wall Street Journal reports today that auction houses [tag]Christie’s[/tag] and [tag]Zachy’s[/tag] have been subboenaed on suspicion of selling counterfeit rare wines. Sacre bleu! Isn’t anything sacred in this world anymore.Â
Can you imagine paying $1,000-plus for a bottle of supposedly rare Bordeaux, only to discover it is a Chilean red or some such. Now I’m now sure how they counterfeit the guts of the wine, but obviously faking some labels and faux-aging the bottles and corks wouldn’t be that impossible.
This just goes to show you that, where there’s money to be made, someone is going to scam the system sooner or later.
Both Christie’s and Zachys deny knowingly selling fake wine.
“Garcon, please bring me a bottle of counterfeit 1981 [tag]Chateau Margaux[/tag] and bill me exorbitantly for it.” I can hear it now.
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