Bottle Shock: Uncovering Counterfeiting and Crime in the Wine Industry

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 29, 2016

Christine Haughney,  senior investigations editor at Zero Point Zero Productions, discusses her Food Republic series that dives into “Wine Crimes.” From the $300,000 thefts of wine at Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry in Napa Valley, to burgeoning criminal cells across Europe that are now manufacturing fake wines, to the story of Rudy Kurniawan, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for operating a massive counterfeiting scheme in the United States. 

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