Interesting article.

[dvn]

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Billionaire-Bill-Koch-to-Visit-CBS-SUNDAY-MORNING-1222-20131220

[jpz5142]

Interesting, so with replica wines do you let them breathe more or less than with gen wines?

[Cromag]

LOL! Precocious bastid. Serves him right for not spending a few extra thousand in due diligence. Testing for cesium 137 would have saved him a lot if headache.

[jpz5142]

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Testing for cesium 137 would have saved him a lot if headache.

[panerai153]

Pretty hard to drum up any sympathy for Bill Koch. He's another in a long line of super rich arrogant people who get conned by someone who is a better con artist than they are!! Why would anyone want or need wine that is that costly. It's never going to be opened and drunk, and in fact most of it is so far past it's prime that it is undrinkable. Might make a pretty good vinaigrette, but maybe not even good for that. you could open the bottles, throw out the wine and refill them with any good 50 buck wine, and those idiots would never be the wiser, if it were resealed to look like it was done 100+ years ago.

Counterfeit wine like counterfeit everything is becoming more of a problem, as the crooks get smarter and it gets easier to reproduce something that looks like it's 100 years old, not 100 days. Amazingly, it's not just the super rare wine, but also some of the recent top flight wines, those that command a price of several hundred dollars a bottle. I read somewhere lately that a big lot of counterfeit French Bordeaux was confiscated and destroyed. It was being sold as some of the Grand Cru wines from a really good year, instead it was just run of the mill recent vintage Bordeaux. I'm sure buying wine is just like buying anything of value, you have to buy the seller first, know what you are buying, and if you don't know, you better find someone you can trust that can tell the difference. AFA wine, you can't test it, because opening the bottle means that the wine has to be drunk within a few hours. No one is going to let a prospective buyer open a bottle of 25K wine to test it.