A billionaire leans in to breathe a vintage older than his own parents. He is not drinking a legend. He is drinking a recipe, mixed three thousand miles away on a kitchen counter in suburban California.
👁️🗨️ In this video 👁️🗨️
0:00 The Pour
1:50 The Room Adored Him
4:19 The Man Who Never Existed
6:03 Inside the Kitchen: The Recipe
8:56 The Counterfeit Laboratory
10:14 Out the Door, Into the Auction
11:55 Take the Seat at the Table
14:57 The Wine That Could Not Exist
16:42 The Billionaire Who Wouldn’t Let Go
20:20 The Verdict and the Ten Thousand Bottles
📌 SOURCES 📌
– Rudy Kurniawan – Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Kurniawan
– Prominent Wine Dealer Rudy Kurniawan Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 10 Years In Prison – U.S. Department of Justice — https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/prominent-wine-dealer-rudy-kurniawan-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-10-years-prison
– Kurniawan trial: ‘This wine cannot exist’, winemaker Ponsot tells court – Decanter — https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/kurniawan-trial-this-wine-cannot-exist-winemaker-ponsot-tells-court-30847/
– Accused Wine Counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan Guilty in Landmark Court Case – Wine Spectator — https://www.winespectator.com/articles/accused-wine-counterfeiter-rudy-kurniawan-guilty-in-landmark-case-49396
– U.S. Authorities Deport Wine Counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan – Wine Spectator — https://www.winespectator.com/articles/us-authorities-deport-wine-counterfeiter-rudy-kurniawan
– After billionaire ex-client testifies, man who sold $20M in fake French wine gets 10 years – ABA Journal — https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/pursued_by_billionaire_ex-client_man_who_sold_20m_in_fake_french_wines_from
This is the patient, quiet anatomy of a fraud built from a funnel, a stack of soaking labels and a handwritten note, told all the way down to how the trick was actually done.
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