Photo: Police said bottles of Nuits St George were filled up with cheaper wine as part of a scam to defraud connoisseurs (stock image) Top Wine Trading Company 'Filled Vintage Bottles With Cheap Alcohol As Part Of Multimillion Pound Fraud' -- -- Daily Mail
* Labouré-Roi took expensive bottles of Nuits St George and put cheap supermarket wine in them
* Nuits St George was not in on the scam
* Scam is believed to have defrauded several hundred million pounds from wine connoisseurs
* Two former executives - brothers aged 82 and 83 - were arrested but later released
Thousand of British wine connoisseurs have unwittingly been drinking vintage burgundy topped up with cheap table wine under a scam operated by one of France’s most prestigious traders, prosecutors have claimed.
Following an 18-month investigation, police say that merchants Labouré-Roi took bottles of Nuits St George and topped them up with supermarket wines.
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My Comment: This is not the first time something like this has been done .... nor will it be the last.
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