http://www.drvino.com/2007/03/06/caveat-emptor-wine-co/ wine talk that goes down easy Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.drvino.com/2007/03/06/caveat-emptor-wine-co/#comment-6892 Dr Vino’s wine blog » Blog Archive » Adventures in wine buying, part 56 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:39:08 +0000 http://70.103.16.189/~drvinoco/wordpress/2007/03/caveat-emptor-wine-co/#comment-6892 [...] older the vintage the greater the risk so the provenance of the wine is more important–one of many risks buying older vintages). But even with younger wines, they could be left on a storage dock for a [...]

]]> http://www.drvino.com/2007/03/06/caveat-emptor-wine-co/#comment-990 De Vino Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:30:00 +0000 http://70.103.16.189/~drvinoco/wordpress/2007/03/caveat-emptor-wine-co/#comment-990 There is a problem of counterfeit wines out there and unless you buy directly from the vineyard is hard to check.
One rule is always good to follow is if it is too good to good to be true it might not be true.
In Italy a collector bought 100 bottles of Sassicaia, don’t remember the vintage now, from a dealer at 100 euro per bottle, he thought he got a great deal but then got suspicious when the same dealer offer him another 100 bottles.
He called the winery and told them what occurred and find out that the wine was a fake.
In scam were involved the glassier that made the original bottle and the typography that used to print the labels.
Now they estate is implementing a system with a chip into the cork to validate the provenance.
The problem with the auction houses is that the buyer want to believe that the Petrus is in fact part of Jefferson collection the auctioneer wants to believe that was the Hitler’s bottle and so on, in this case their passion for the find or the money or both, impair a fair analysis and judgment.
Buona Bevuta a Tutti

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