What Happened?
It was only when bottles of 1945 Clos St Denis from Domaine Ponsot began being sold by him, did anyone ever get suspicious. This was because this type of wine had only been made since 1982.
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Ultimately, a simple lack of research was Kurniawan’s undoing. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was the first person in the U.S. to be tried successfully for wine fraud. And what happened to all of his wine bottles? Well, they were dumped into a landfill.