| Abstract: |
Wine forgery takes place on a global scale, but is on the rise in central Europe. Higher value varieties, originating from key wine producing countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany and Chile, are at a higher risk of wine fraud and forgery, but any country or variety could be threatened. A recent report investigating 743 wine importers, distributors and retailers, as well as cafés, hotels and restaurants, found that in 2016 and 2017, 22% and 15% of the establishments misrepresented wine origins in some form [1]. What is wine fraud?‘Wine fraud’, as a broad term, encompasses a number of methods of deception, including adulteration, counterfeiting (e.g. mislabeling/misrepresentation) and intellectual property infringement. It can be broadly categorized into fraudulent wine selling and fraudulent wine production. |
