In vino duplicitas
Subtitle: the rise and fall of a wine forger extraordinaire
By: Peter Hellman
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781615193929
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling; Commercial crimes; Wine frauds; Biography; Wine industry
Other titles: Rise and fall of a wine forger extraordinaire
Description: Nobody can know them all, certainly not Rudy Kurniawan, who never set eyes on Burgundy. In the end, it was his imprecise knowledge of a particular domaine's history that tripped him up. It happened amid extreme merriment, one spring evening, in New York. The mistakes that he made, minuscule and highly arcane, upended his life. Also upended would be the practices and pleasures of seekers after rare old wine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Becoming Dr. Conti; title: Underside of an auction; title: The man from Morey-Saint-Denis; title: The auctioneer; title: Collapse of the con; title: The sheriff; title: The takedown; title: Before a jury of his peers; title: Aftershocks.