Ex-wine trader and arsonist sentenced to 27 years in prison

CHINA (Beijing) - Sun Xitai, a Chinese businessman, has allegedly imported 70,000 illegally and saved import duties by giving false declarations. According to the investigating authorities, the value of the wines smuggled...

UK (London) - The Institute Master of Wine has started an investigaion of its member Pancho Campo and his tasting organizations in Spain, particularly for the Wine Advocate. The institute announced that it received a...

AUSTRIA (Spitz) - The issue was all over the Austrian media, including newspapers and German Internet-forums. It was even called a real "mudwrestling in Wachau". The trigger was a lawsuit that the Vinea Wachau lead with...

FRANCE (Beziers) – It took them only one night and all of the grapes of a full vineyard were gone. In the deep night and while taking advantage of the full moon, so far unknown culprits stole the complete harvest of...

FRANCE (Carcasonne) - One of the boldest scandals occurring in the international wine scene reached its peak on Thursday before a court in Carcasonne, located in Southern France. Constellation Brands - the world’s...

GERMANY (Koblenz) - Even more discoveries: The Rhineland-Palatinate national investigation office (LUA - Landesuntersuchungsamt) has now also found the substance Natamycin in wines from South Africa. From 204 wines that...

GERMANY (Koblenz) - The federal investigation office (LUA) has found the forbidden substance natamycin in 6 other red wines from Argentina. From 184 examined wines sourced from third party countries analyzed since the...

FRANCE (Paris) - Luxury-purses, expensive brand glasses, precious watches and designer clothes - what customers like will always be faked. It is new however, that more and more this also concerns wines. Particularly...

GERMANY (Koblenz) - The federal investigation office Rhineland-Palatinate (LUA) found the illegal substance Natamycin in three other wines. In 146 examined wines from other countries, a total of five actually contained...

GERMANY (Koblenz) - The German investigations office (LUA - Landesuntersuchungsamt) has found the illegal substance Natamycin in another red wine from Argentina once again. The wine was a Villa Paola - San Rafael -...