At one such tasting, Rodenstock produced 125 vintages of Château d’Yquem, including a really rare bottle from the 1784 vintage. In addition to holding these extravagant tastings, Rodenstock also sold many bottles from his assortment at auction homes, which supposedly recurrently inspect and analysis wines for authenticity. One such lot that Rodenstock offered had been the uncommon “Jefferson bottles”, reportedly rare Bordeaux wines bottled for the American president, Thomas Jefferson. Another effectively-publicized instance of label fraud is the case of Rudy Kurniawan; he was arrested on March 8, 2012 and indicted for fraud. Allegedly, Kurniwan was buying giant stocks of
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