Wine Fraud and Authenticity

Wine Fraud and Authenticity
Most reputable wineries use branded corks. Very inexpensive wines often are sold with blank corks that have no brands. Pavel_D/Shutterstock
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When we buy a bottle of a famed wine, we take it on faith that it’s genuine and not a fake.

In fact, fake wine is precisely why corks began to be branded with the name of a winery as well as the vintage date.

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