In Vino Duplicitas

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Few gain entry to the privileged world of ultrafine wines, where billionaires flock to exclusive auction houses to vie for the scarce surviving bottles from truly legendary years But Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething from Indonesia, was blessed with two gifts that opened doors a virtuoso palate for wine tasting, and access to a seemingly limitless if mysterious supply of the world s most coveted wines After bursting onto the scene in 2002, Kurniawan quickly became the leading purveyor of rare wines to the American elite But in April 2008, his lots of Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint Denis red burgundy dating as far back as 1945 were abruptly pulled from auction The problem The winemaker was certain that this particular burgundy was first produced only in 1982 Journalist Peter Hellman was there, and he would closely investigate as a singular cast of characters including a Kansas born billionaire, a wine loving young prosecutor, and a crusty FBI agent worked to unravel the biggest con in wine history Whether driven by the love of wine or of justice, all were asking the same question Was the mild mannered Kurniawan himself a dupe Or had one young man with little experience and few connections ensnared the world s top winemakers, sellers, and drinkers in a web of deceit Read In Vino Duplicitas – kino-fada.fr A truly fascinating story, amazing material here, but the book itself was only okay I strongly recommend the Netflix documentary Sour Grapes which is about the same person, Rudy Kurniawan, but was mucheffective and engaging at delivering the information and, for that m...Hellman has written a book about one of the greatest wine frauds to have ever taken place Rudy Kurniawan was a young man who misrepresented himself as a seller of extremely rare wines Unfortunately, it was found that he was a total fraud This episode was ...Full review to comeThis is an engrossing story about a young Asian man who forged wines so well he duped big time wine collectors out of tens of millions of dollars.The story is fascinating not only because of the expertise and deception required to pull off such a feat, but also because of the psychological manipulation required to carry out the con on so many wealthy and intelligent people for so long.At the same time, we get a front row seat at wine auctions, French wineries, and tastings and learnthan This is an engrossing story about a young Asian man who forged wines so well he duped big time wine collectors out of tens of millions of dollars.The story is fascinating not only becau...Now, for all that this book has its compelling moments whether the reader is going into it for the schadenfreude, the education, or out of sheer curiosity , I do have one particular issue with it the overall narrative flow The author is primarily a writer of magazine articles, which are often short and snappy, and so is perhapsused to working in the kind of short, snappy narrative timeframe often preferred for magazine writing I think this has affected the overall flow of the book, res Now, for all that this book has its compelling moments whether the reader is going into it for the schadenfreude, the education, or out of sheer curiosity , I do have one particular issue with it the overall narrative flow The author is primarily a writer of magazine articles, which are often short and snappy, and so is perhapsused to working in the kind of short, snappy...This is a hard book for me to review Parts of it are brilliant, much of it is quite well written, and the story itself is nothing short of fascinating However, Hellman, though obviously a gifted writer and journalist, seems to lose himself over and over again in a sort of aged wine euphoria Waxing poetic about this vintage and that domaine repeatedly makes the narrative challenging to follow and denser than it needs to be It s already a short book, so I suppose cutting down on the wine genuf This is a hard book for me to review Parts of it are brilliant, much of it is quite well written, and the story itself is nothing short of fascinating However, Hellman, though obviously a gifted writer and journalist, seems to lose himself over and over again in a sort of aged wine euphoria Waxing poetic about this vintage and that domaine repeatedly makes the narrative challenging to follow and denser than it needs to ...Goodreads just ate my review, so here s the short version.This could have been really good the crime and the characters are interesting but Hellman didn t really explore the events of the characters in enough depth and his prose was flat There were several paragraphs and passages that were repeated almost verbatim in different chapters, as if the author was attempting to pad out his manuscript Save your time and wait for a better book on these events Or just go back and read the multitude o Goodreads just ate my review, so here s the short version.This could have been really good the crime and the characters are interesting but Hellman didn t really explore the events of the characters in enough depth and his prose was flat There were several paragraphs and passages that were repeated almost verbatim in different chapters, as if the author was attempti...I really enjoyed this book I first saw this story on American Greed, and this gave adetailed description of the story I will probably read this again in the future.This had the potential to be an incredibly exciting read a crime targeting the rich who have the means to fight back It dropped a lot of names yet still felt as if it had omitted many other victims investigators It did provide the type of minute details that I enjoy e.g horizontally vs vertically stamped corks, idiosyncrasies on the labels learning about I would have liked an appendix listing the vintners, suspected wines suspected number of fake bottles perhaps in the next e This had the potential to be an incredibly exciting read a crime targeting the rich who have the means...Found a couple of typos in the book I did not know anything about the high end wine culture This was eye opening.I won this book as part of goodreads giveaway program I will donate it to my local library.

In Vino Duplicitas
  • 06 December 2017
  • Audio CD
  • 1541453662
  • Peter Hellman
  • In Vino Duplicitas