He sold $35 million of “rare” French wine to the world’s richest collectors. There was just one tiny problem: the wine never existed.
In the 2000s, Rudy Kurniawan became the most famous wine collector in America — experts even called him “Dr. Conti.” Then he brought bottles of a legendary Burgundy from 1945 to 1971 to a New York auction… and one man in the room knew the truth.
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Sources: U.S. v. Kurniawan (SDNY, 2013); “Sour Grapes” (2016 documentary); Decanter.
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