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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culprits are Dutchmen who, in two separate operations, are believed to have passed off several million bottles of cheap wine as the product of well-known French vineyards, earning as much as $10 million in the process. American importers have been a favorite target for shipments of bogus Pouilly-Fuissé, a white wine from the Burgundy region that has soared both in popularity and price in the U.S. According to investigators in The Netherlands, Americans drank between 300,000 and 500,000 bottles of the phony-Fuissé during the past two years, usually paying more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Vintage Villains | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing in the wrong direction: it proved to be an impression made by using a Dutch coin. A wine expert was quickly called in to sample the impounded Pouilly-Fuissé. Concluded the taster: nothing of the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Vintage Villains | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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