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Title : Watch How an Expert Spots Fraudulent Wine
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Source : Smithsonian
Year : 2015
Link : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-expert-spots-fraudulent-wine-180955388/
Country : United States of America
Commodity: AB-Wines, musts
Abstract: Rare bottles of wine — like art — are coveted and command record-breaking valuations. This past fall, for example, a collection of Romanee-Conti Burgundy sold for the equivalent of $14,121 per bottle, making it the most valuable single wine lot sold at auction. With prices like that, wine fraud is a serious concern for the connoisseur with expensive tastes. Enter the "The Sherlock Holmes of Wine," Maureen Downey, who is a wine fraud investigator. She explains her work in a video from Bloomberg Business​ by Jennafer Savino and Amy Marino