Counterfeit wines in China
By 2011-4-8 17:09:33
Counterfeit wine continues to be a problem exacerbated by enterprising criminals in China - one of the fastest growing wine markets in the world - who have been capitalizing on the increasing thirst for fine wines in their country.
Wine lovers in a borough northeast of the city have been warned to beware of a scam involving counterfeit bottles of Jacob's Creek. Police seized 340 bottles of the fake Australian chardonnay from 19 retailers in the area last month.
The imitation Jacob's Creek was shipped from China, and misspelled the word 'Australia' by omitting the second letter 'A.' According to Decanter magazine, the owner of the winery launched an investigation after receiving a growing number of complaints from customers about the quality of the wine they had bought.
Last December, six people were detained and more than a dozen corporate accounts were frozen in that country after police seized 5,114 boxes of wine thought to be chemically altered and falsely labeled as superior products, reports People's Daily in China.
From CWNM