San Francisco wine detective Maureen Downey is one of the few experts in the world investigating cases of rare and collection wines forgery. Esquire found out who sells expensive fakes and how to recognize them without opening the bottle. “In 2000, I accidentally ran into a prominent fraudster named Hardy Rodenstock. This was at the very beginning of my work in the company ...
In California, you can now buy wine infused with marijuana. The drink is made from organic marijuana and biodynamically grown grapes, according to the LA Times. A product called Canna Vine will be available only to those Americans who have been prescribed this type of drug by their doctor in ...
Washington, although the capital, is a small city itself. And it’s literally easy to leave it - just cross to the other side of the Potomac River - and now you’re in the state of Virginia. You will reach the final metro station by…
A collectible bottle of sherry, which was opened for Putin and Berlusconi during their joint visit to Crimea, was valued at sixty cents and written off, according to the Ukrainian Center for Investigative Journalism. In total, five bottles of the unique collection wine “Jerez de la Frontera” from the 1775 harvest were stored in Crimea,…
The Russian department for supervision in the field of consumer protection (Rospotrebnadzor) has banned the sale and began to withdraw from circulation several wines made by large producers from the United States. One red and two white wines from Geyser Peak Winery, Crane Lake Cellars ...
Wine Searcher conducted a study and named the world's most expensive wine. It turned out to be a wine called en Cote des Nuits from the French region of Burgundy. The average cost of a bottle of such wine in August this year was 15 thousand dollars. Almost all wines ...
Scientists managed to learn some of the subtleties of making one of the first varieties of champagne "Veuve Clicquot". To do this, they carried out a chemical analysis and tasting of the contents of 170-year-old bottles found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 2010. Then off the coast of the Aland Islands in Finland ...