@Damian Jablonski That, and the ones most fooled were not actually drinking the wine, they were buying it as an investment, not as a consumable product.
The key was explained within the video - think of it like this, if I've just spent $1m+ on a bottle of wine there's a fair chance it's as likely to be drunk as that gold bar I just bought is going to be used as a paperweight. Most of what he was "selling" was aimed at a market that's unlikely to drink the stuff rather collect it knowing a bit like that gold bar, there's a fair chance its value will appreciate over time. The rest was simple risk - the understanding that with a rarity the chances of someone having tasted it before actually buying it are greatly reduced, it's not like even something like a Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac which is "high end" by most stretches but is also relatively common, so you're probably not going to be able to pass off Kirkland cognac in its place. That's how most wine scams get caught, they screw up and serve the cheap stuff to someone who knows what it's supposed to taste like, many a restaurant owner has been caught out this way, this guy went for a market where the only way he'd get caught would be to do something to raise questions - eventually people like that get sloppy and well, that's when they get caught! I don't disagree that them being able to be replicated exposes a snobbery but well, that comes from a guy who doesn't drink wine & couldn't tell you the difference between the most expensive wine in the world or the £3 crap out the supermarket!
Presumably Rudy didn't fill the bottles with the cheapest bargain store wine he could find. If you're counterfeiting a $10,000 bottle, for example, you could easily spend a few hundred buying a "cheap" variety that can still taste expensive to fill the bottle with. After that you have the fact that the most rare and expensive collectible wines are almost never actually drunk by anyone, so no one alive really knows how it ought to taste anyway, and you can see how faking it could be pretty easy as long as you nail the labels, or just retrieve empties from a dumpster.
@@cr4zyj4ck In another docu about this guy, they went into more detail about this guy being a part of a wine tasting club where he would open expensive but not "collectible" type wines that were also counterfeit and all those "experts" would drink the cheap wine and describe the experience in flowery terms.
Cheap Plunk also tastes a lot better when your on Holliday, sitting outside in Spain of Italy, while looking at the sunset over the sea while eating fruit de mere.
You forget a very important fact in the story. Rudi Kurniawan had a very special gift that he managed to mix wine in such a way that they came very close to the original. His nose and knowledge was also very advanced and as a result he quickly gained prestige in the wine world. Can laugh a bit that he took the grape boys like that. To this day, wine cellars are still full of his special creations.
Reminds me of the high priced art which has been painted by modern day artists where very extensive scientific tests need to be done to establish that they are not originals. ☘️🌝🌲
I don’t get why he just didn’t make his own wine company with the flavors he created, it would probably bring in decent cash and be legitimate as well!
@Tim Z I will understand this if this is in my home country but in the US and Europe, they have better prison cells than government housing in my country.
income, not profit. IF he was smart he might have a stash somewhere of a million or so that they didn't find. (I sure would have had one, so if I "got away" with my skin I could live back "home" well) He HAD to spend a lot to provide cover as well. He was buying real collections and then "enhancing" them with fakes. The way the fed works is they arrest you, freeze ALL your assets and then you are pretty much forced to take a public defender and IF you get bail you are scraping money to pay rent. (that was how they broke the back of the white collar guys in NY, Giuliani pioneered it -- take away all their money and threaten their wives and family with homelessness and they will confess.. guilty or not.. to protect PART of their assets as part of the "deal") Taint ALL their money, the wifeys money, the kids college accounts.. everything and RICO it all. They don't even have to convict you to keep the money.
The idea that you can put anything in the bottle is ridiculous. He was very talented at blending flavors to pass as the wines portrayed in the bottles.
What about when he said "authentification experts" at 8:34? I mean. I don't mean to "criticificize" him for "misprounouncifizing" words. The English language is very "complexical" and "nuificanced".
The guy makes $558M, then has to give only $28M to the suckers, $20M to the Feds, got 10 years free food and lodging and got to keep the rest???? Yup, that's justice.
8:06 explains it best: he was a scammer, but so were all the other "critics", "connoisseurs", and "experts". He was repeatedly caught, but wasn't persecuted because it would have outed the others as fakes.
Frank Bishop It’s a well known saying. Middle school basketball coach over 20 years ago used to say “would you like some cheese with that whine?” all the time haha. And I think it was an old saying back then too.
I bought 6 bottles of $90 wine for Thanksgiving 9 years ago. Last year I showed up to Thanksgiving dinner with a case of homemade wine, A French Merlot 14.7%alcohol that cost about $6.00 a bottle...guess who is now making more homemade wine???
In reality, nobody really wants to discover these things because nobody benefits. The auction houses make less money. The collectors feel like idiots. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Nobody going to mention this guy made 550 million dollars then had to pay 38 million back? He is going to get out of jail and still have half a billion dollars
Anyone that can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine, can afford to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine. Victimless crime.
Extremely expensive wines are purchased as investments. Would you say that anyone who can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a piece of investment property such as a cottage, can afford to lose that money, that it's a "victimless crime" as well?
@@tedmounsteven621 A cottage is within the reach of a fair number of people, and you don't have to be filthy rich to buy one, you just have to make enough money to get a mortgage. The people spending hundreds of thousands on a bottle of wine are not buying cottages. They're buying islands.
@@paulsz6194 People with a 500k house (mortgaged by a bank), are spending $20 on a bottle of wine, maybe. People spending 500k on a bottle of wine probably have a $50 million dollar house, and that's probably only one of their houses. Stop making idiotic comparisons.
Im not a wine snob but I stopped drinking Boone' Farm after they stopped useing apple wine and replaced it with malt beverage. I have a few bottles left in my wine cellar of Richards Wild Irish Rose still ageing.
Another facts: it runs in the family. His grandad and uncle was famous in Indonesia and his uncle still a fugitive until today. The cash this guy got from the scam was just a fraction compared to those 2 combined valued today.
His extended family in indonesia owns a bank and his uncle was suspected to drain more than 650mil USD from government banks which until today was not able to be proven guilty, of which you can read the article urself, so in short: no he is not gonna be living in a dump after this.
Often wine with an expensive brand and bottle will taste like a million just because of the bottle. And sometimes an expensive wine will taste no different if not worse than a well-made 'cheap' wine because the bottles were kept out of sight aka blind tasting.
I suggest reading "drops of god" manga series because it opens the reader's eyes to the world of wine Kanzaki Shizuku is a junior employee in a Japanese beverages company mainly focusing on selling beers. As the story opens, he receives news that his father, from whom he is estranged, has died. His father was the world-renowned wine critic Kanzaki Yutaka , who owned a vast and famous wine collection. Summoned to the family home, a splendid European style mansion, to hear the reading of his father's will, Shizuku learns that, in order to take ownership of his legacy, he must correctly identify, and describe in the manner of his late father, thirteen wines, the first twelve known as the "Twelve Apostles" and the thirteenth known as the "Drops of God" , that his father has described in his will. He also learns that he has a competitor in this, a renowned young wine critic called Toomine Issei, who his father has apparently recently adopted as his other son.
Ok, I lasted 4 minutes , now I'm out. I don't know how he scammed people just that wine can be expensive and FBI investigated him. This is just one of those videos that drag a subject out as long and painfully as possible to trick the youtube algorithm to get as much cash as possible. I'm sure they will get to how he scammed people at about 10:40 in this 10:46 long video. But I won't check. My guess is that he refilled used expensive wine bottles with cheaper wine.
Wow. What a fraud! I remember paying € 15 to an Italian merlot bottle in 2012. That was the most expensive bottle that I have ever bought. The finest wine that I have drunk is in my hand right now, produced by myself on my balcony from local grapes without any additives or fraud. It might not be the best ever wine but at least I know what it is.
A couple of years ago I had the chance to buy the surplus stock of a restaurant for €35 a bottle. It turned out that the collection included some 1958 Chateau Margaux.
Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (That I've purchased) SANDEMAN Old Tawny Porto aged 40 years: $222.59 I like port, this one was my favorite. I've Tried Warre's and Taylor Fladgate's Port.... not for me.
There are a few technicalities I’m sure added to him getting caught. One of the obvious things that he didn’t research: the actual years wines have been released by particular vineyards. He also probably used the contemporary adhesive on the labels which would be detected pretty easily.
That's a good price. Find someone you like who likes wine and plan a meal around it. I would suggest Scallops with a Bearnaise sauce, or a simple fish like snapper meuniere, drowning in butter. Crab cakes would also be nice as a starter. Bon appétit and Santé!
Amass a network/business worth over half a billion fraudulently; pay $20M in fees to authorities, $28M in restitutions and a quick 10year sentence (probably out in 5-7 on good behavior). Fast forward to today, he's just worried about which yacht to take out this weekend while he drinks his stash of legit wine he had substituted for cheap shit. Long story short, the judicial system doesn't stress over *fraud* (rather almost encourages it) as much as it should.
So he was made to pay 28 million in restitution and 20 million to the courts. He made off with 500 million after serving 10 years in prison. Is this how it went down?
Loved the bit in sour grapes when two of the wine buffs took this bottle to a restaurant. One guy has a taste and is like this is skunk juice!! Brilliant, it just shows that these doofuses were buying Rudy's piss water for ages. So good.
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Have you ever bought a fake bottle of wine?
no im 12 xD
Your intro looked like Shane danson intro xd
No I’m underage and have no interest in alcohol 🤮
I’m to young TwT
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The fact that this guy could blend different cheap wines and make them taste like expensive wines should shame those snobbish wine "experts".
@Damian Jablonski That, and the ones most fooled were not actually drinking the wine, they were buying it as an investment, not as a consumable product.
The key was explained within the video - think of it like this, if I've just spent $1m+ on a bottle of wine there's a fair chance it's as likely to be drunk as that gold bar I just bought is going to be used as a paperweight. Most of what he was "selling" was aimed at a market that's unlikely to drink the stuff rather collect it knowing a bit like that gold bar, there's a fair chance its value will appreciate over time. The rest was simple risk - the understanding that with a rarity the chances of someone having tasted it before actually buying it are greatly reduced, it's not like even something like a Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac which is "high end" by most stretches but is also relatively common, so you're probably not going to be able to pass off Kirkland cognac in its place. That's how most wine scams get caught, they screw up and serve the cheap stuff to someone who knows what it's supposed to taste like, many a restaurant owner has been caught out this way, this guy went for a market where the only way he'd get caught would be to do something to raise questions - eventually people like that get sloppy and well, that's when they get caught!
I don't disagree that them being able to be replicated exposes a snobbery but well, that comes from a guy who doesn't drink wine & couldn't tell you the difference between the most expensive wine in the world or the £3 crap out the supermarket!
Presumably Rudy didn't fill the bottles with the cheapest bargain store wine he could find. If you're counterfeiting a $10,000 bottle, for example, you could easily spend a few hundred buying a "cheap" variety that can still taste expensive to fill the bottle with.
After that you have the fact that the most rare and expensive collectible wines are almost never actually drunk by anyone, so no one alive really knows how it ought to taste anyway, and you can see how faking it could be pretty easy as long as you nail the labels, or just retrieve empties from a dumpster.
@@cr4zyj4ck In another docu about this guy, they went into more detail about this guy being a part of a wine tasting club where he would open expensive but not "collectible" type wines that were also counterfeit and all those "experts" would drink the cheap wine and describe the experience in flowery terms.
Cheap Plunk also tastes a lot better when your on Holliday, sitting outside in Spain of Italy, while looking at the sunset over the sea while eating fruit de mere.
You forget a very important fact in the story. Rudi Kurniawan had a very special gift that he managed to mix wine in such a way that they came very close to the original. His nose and knowledge was also very advanced and as a result he quickly gained prestige in the wine world. Can laugh a bit that he took the grape boys like that. To this day, wine cellars are still full of his special creations.
Yes, and this was a critical part the whole story.
Maybe Rudy's counterfeits will one day be legitimate collection pieces.
Counterfeit only in Label but not taste...what does that say about the industry as a whole...? hehehehe 😈😈
Reminds me of the high priced art which has been painted by modern day artists where very extensive scientific tests need to be done to establish that they are not originals.
☘️🌝🌲
I don’t get why he just didn’t make his own wine company with the flavors he created, it would probably bring in decent cash and be legitimate as well!
He made 550million and only had to pay 40 million and 10 years shit I’ll take that trade
lynx519 was thinking where the rest of the money was? 10 years in a house with guards and meals, and with privileges such as tv and etcs.
How about confiscated assets on the top of the fine?
That sentence too can be reduced if he would cooperate
Can you Butt handle the 10 years though. Dont drop da soap.
@Tim Z I will understand this if this is in my home country but in the US and Europe, they have better prison cells than government housing in my country.
lets see 10 years at a profit of 550 mill minus the 53 mill in restitution 497 mill for 10 years hmmm Crime does pay... about 49mill a year it seems
income, not profit. IF he was smart he might have a stash somewhere of a million or so that they didn't find. (I sure would have had one, so if I "got away" with my skin I could live back "home" well)
He HAD to spend a lot to provide cover as well. He was buying real collections and then "enhancing" them with fakes. The way the fed works is they arrest you, freeze ALL your assets and then you are pretty much forced to take a public defender and IF you get bail you are scraping money to pay rent. (that was how they broke the back of the white collar guys in NY, Giuliani pioneered it -- take away all their money and threaten their wives and family with homelessness and they will confess.. guilty or not.. to protect PART of their assets as part of the "deal") Taint ALL their money, the wifeys money, the kids college accounts.. everything and RICO it all. They don't even have to convict you to keep the money.
He looks pretty. Prison will either toughen him up. Or he is coming out if it as a ladyboy when he is deported to Asia.....
They could've confiscated all his money and assets because of this scam.
@@Napo-so1pe All they could FIND. They certainly confiscated everything, and civil trials would have taken anything the feds missed for reparations.
@@chanceDdog2009 is the prison still that bad or somethin
The idea that you can put anything in the bottle is ridiculous. He was very talented at blending flavors to pass as the wines portrayed in the bottles.
It's far from ridiculous. These collectors WANTED to be fooled. They don't want to face their own foolishness so they let their imaginations run wild.
The word is "prosecute", not "persecute".
What about when he said "authentification experts" at 8:34? I mean. I don't mean to "criticificize" him for "misprounouncifizing" words. The English language is very "complexical" and "nuificanced".
Yes. I was just about to leave a similar comment. Thank you !!
this episode was written by Charlie Kelly
Really liked how you murdered all the French words.
I love a good Cheval BLANK or a Clos Saint-DENNIS.
All the words! Haha
Your insecurities are showing
Jose Lopez that doesn’t make any sense, but sure.
I mean, it’s not that big of a deal.
The guy makes $558M, then has to give only $28M to the suckers, $20M to the Feds, got 10 years free food and lodging and got to keep the rest???? Yup, that's justice.
Expat47 trust me the food is whack asf you gotta know make some good stuff
Expat47 yeah it’s so messed up.
He'll be great at making toilet wine.
@@randostone6865 lmao he would be a commissary god, wouldn't have to eat the shit food
Especially in the luxury prison that he did the time in
8:06 explains it best: he was a scammer, but so were all the other "critics", "connoisseurs", and "experts". He was repeatedly caught, but wasn't persecuted because it would have outed the others as fakes.
Rudy is a genius. At least he didn't scam poor people
Edit: Poor people also got scammed by him
That is why he is in prison. Had he scammed poor, he would have been in politics.
Dum Dum he did scam poor people aswell..... some people bought a single bottle with there life savings in hope it would increase in value
@@minishaw280 well shit. I retract what I said.
Poor people wasnt scammed by him.
Deividas Melnikas I’ve read story’s of people buying single bottles with life savings etc and loosing it all!
i love the pronunciations. you got the word “wine” correct
It makes my heart sing knowing Koch got scammed. Rudi should have been given a medal for that.
moral of the story. dont drink overpriced wine
correction: don't *buy* overpriced wine. drinking it is fine imho ^_^
Damn if one of the wine producers does a collab with him to create a "Rudy Blend" I would def buy it.
This gave me a new business plan
So, We can see the succeeded business man after 50 years ??
williams antony yeah
Oh. I wonder what that might be.🤔
Rudy maybe is feeling lonely, might as well give him company.
The FBI arrests Rudy.
Rudy: [crying]
*FBI Agent: "Do you have a bottle for that wine?"*
Uh, "whine." We would get the point, trust me.
Do you want some cheese with that wine
@@4Thug2Life0 Again, "Whine." But, your comment is clever! I like it. Do you mind if I appropriate it for reuse?
Frank Bishop It’s a well known saying. Middle school basketball coach over 20 years ago used to say “would you like some cheese with that whine?” all the time haha. And I think it was an old saying back then too.
Random Facts: The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.
@Central Intelligence Agency should already know.
@Central Intelligence Agency joke on your name.
Central Intelligence Agency this is why I’m better than you.
@@powerllesss2672 oh snap.
Epic exchange guys. Well done. Bravo!
A 1998 vintage of MD 20/20 in raspberry blue is my most prized possession.
Night Train Express 1978 is mine..
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2000 Thunderbird is mine
I pissed in a glass bottle back in 2001.
I found the bottle last christmas.
1857 bottle family heirloom. No one has dared to open it.
also totally irrelevant muddy water from Battle of Verdun.
Wait so he made 550million and only paid back 44 million? So he's still rich AF?.
Video starts at 4:50
Most expensive bottle of wine I ever bought was reisling at Jewel Osco for $9.99 🤦♂️😂 when it was $4.99 at Walgreens. 😂
Sorry, I can't keep up with your luxury life style. 😮
The most expensive bottle of wine that i ever bought was around USD 35. 😂
I hope it was authentic, as it was from a local vineyard.
My most expensive wine bottle was Sula wine which was around 1000 indian bucks.. Thats $13 😂
I bought 6 bottles of $90 wine for Thanksgiving 9 years ago. Last year I showed up to Thanksgiving dinner with a case of homemade wine, A French Merlot 14.7%alcohol that cost about $6.00 a bottle...guess who is now making more homemade wine???
french merlot.. yuck
I once bought a $350 bottle of Scotch, because it was a bottle bar business meeting. Painful, because I know I can buy that at home for about $40.
The FBI could not catch a common cold.
Now google who has the FBI caught.
Was Comey in charge of the FBI at that time?!
In reality, nobody really wants to discover these things because nobody benefits. The auction houses make less money. The collectors feel like idiots. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Republican detected!
Nobody going to mention this guy made 550 million dollars then had to pay 38 million back? He is going to get out of jail and still have half a billion dollars
Anyone that can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine, can afford to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine. Victimless crime.
Extremely expensive wines are purchased as investments. Would you say that anyone who can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a piece of investment property such as a cottage, can afford to lose that money, that it's a "victimless crime" as well?
@@tedmounsteven621 A cottage is within the reach of a fair number of people, and you don't have to be filthy rich to buy one, you just have to make enough money to get a mortgage. The people spending hundreds of thousands on a bottle of wine are not buying cottages. They're buying islands.
If someone can afford a house worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, can they afford to lose it too?? 🤔
@@tedmounsteven621I agree, the other writer is speaking from envy and / or jealousy.
@@paulsz6194 People with a 500k house (mortgaged by a bank), are spending $20 on a bottle of wine, maybe. People spending 500k on a bottle of wine probably have a $50 million dollar house, and that's probably only one of their houses. Stop making idiotic comparisons.
The FBI “prosecutes”
not persecutes
For the record, this story is a direct rehash of the 2016 movie Sour Grapes shown on Netflix.
Teacher: The test will be easy
The Test :
“At trial despite saying he was sorry, he was found guilty”. 🤣🤣
That's the trick when you want lenient sentences bro
Murders, School shootings, and then. We have wine
someone with a last name con, someone with a last name Wine, this is like a comedy sketch
US: Greatest scam!
Austria: Hold my anti freeze
Just give me a bottle of Boone’s Farm strawberry wine and I’m set.
Im not a wine snob but I stopped drinking Boone' Farm after they stopped useing apple wine and replaced it with malt beverage. I have a few bottles left in my wine cellar of Richards Wild Irish Rose still ageing.
I have never had that. Mad Dog 20/20, yes. That stuff was bad.
"Persecute"...It does not mean what you think it means. You meant "prosecute".
The most expensive bottle of wine I ever bought was $20
skhuciti mine was 370€
@@nicolasommer9639 I sure hope that was the best you ever had cos that's decent watch base price.
skhuciti no it wasn‘t😅🤷🏻♂️ i tried wines for 20€ that were way better, but its mostly the name that you pay for.
skhuciti im a winemaker? I really Dont want to know how much money i drank in my life😂
@@nicolasommer9639 now you talking😂😂😂😂
The most expensive bottle of wine I ever bought was 450 Rs(6$ approx) 😂😂
He won’t stop,
He will continue and will be making high quality ‘Jail House Hooch.’
chateau hooch
abraham mendez
🤪🤪😎😎😜😜🤪🤪🤣🤣
Thank you!
I once bought a £10 bottle of wine in Tesco's, but it was knocked down to a 5iver.
OMG, That name Rudy kurniawan so Indonesian, ,😄
I think he changed it from his ethnic chinese name.
Edit: I was correct. Zhen Wang Huang is his birth name.
He's a cousin from Edy Tansil, the Indonesian forger that has not been caught and his existence become mystery since 1997.
@IKLAN JADOEL INDONESIA wtf do u mean?
WOW, shocking pronunciations of French winery names.
it's PROSECUTE, not persecute.
They do a little of both.
Sour grapes was a good documentary.
Most expensive wine I ever bought was $11 lol
Penfolds Grange for $1289, kind of upsets me to know my favorite vinter is constantly counterfeited.
Rudi found a huge niche in the wine trade - the niche that holds all the pretense and snobbery.
It's a bottomless cellar of dubious delights.
He got greedy, Wants too much money. Alter he makes $100.000.000. He should have quit, retire. And enjoy life.
They never do. Greed and ego gets the better of them
Another facts: it runs in the family. His grandad and uncle was famous in Indonesia and his uncle still a fugitive until today. The cash this guy got from the scam was just a fraction compared to those 2 combined valued today.
Wow
$550 million collection . 50 million in fines. Few years with odd wardrope colors seems pretty good ROI.
Whatttt?!!!! The fact he had no papers to be in our country shocks me the MOST! Ugh
This guy did it! I wonder if he’ll still b rich when he gets out
His extended family in indonesia owns a bank and his uncle was suspected to drain more than 650mil USD from government banks which until today was not able to be proven guilty, of which you can read the article urself, so in short: no he is not gonna be living in a dump after this.
I’m so jealous rn
archingelus gifted family 😂
@@adedotunadagbada16 dude it seems the family's trade is ripping money off someone lol
£7 Bottle of Vintage Buckfast ! ... Wreck the hoose Juice !
So he made 500 million and had to pay back about 36 million. Yeah okay, I'll take that deal, where do I sign?
Yeah you right i just thought that too what a bs isnt it? Its like "go ahead and do it again" maybe we should do that too hehehe
Often wine with an expensive brand and bottle will taste like a million just because of the bottle. And sometimes an expensive wine will taste no different if not worse than a well-made 'cheap' wine because the bottles were kept out of sight aka blind tasting.
I actually prefer the taste of wine over beers, I'm weird in that sense
Beer is better than any alc no cap
I prefer gatorade
Hands down, water is the best
You missed a very important point, which is, the French wine producer did most of the earlier investigations than what the FBI did!
Criminals getting robbed by criminals, talk about poetic justice ;)
i am the first commenter I love your vids and I subed
$40 is as expensive as I’ve gone... really wasn’t any better than a $25 box of wine.
Most expensive bottle I've bought is $25. Hahaha
Watching this video while I sip a glass of CA Pinot Grigio that costs about $13 for a 1.5L bottle.
I suggest reading "drops of god" manga series because it opens the reader's eyes to the world of wine
Kanzaki Shizuku is a junior employee in a Japanese beverages company mainly focusing on selling beers. As the story opens, he receives news that his father, from whom he is estranged, has died. His father was the world-renowned wine critic Kanzaki Yutaka , who owned a vast and famous wine collection. Summoned to the family home, a splendid European style mansion, to hear the reading of his father's will, Shizuku learns that, in order to take ownership of his legacy, he must correctly identify, and describe in the manner of his late father, thirteen wines, the first twelve known as the "Twelve Apostles" and the thirteenth known as the "Drops of God" , that his father has described in his will. He also learns that he has a competitor in this, a renowned young wine critic called Toomine Issei, who his father has apparently recently adopted as his other son.
what an Ahole father... adopting random stranger into the family.
@@qwertylink9066 its needed for the plot actually ,he adopted Issei so he can be a heir to the wine collection
@@GulayBeans so the real son lost the competition? the adopted inherited his fathers entire fortune leaving his real son homeless?
@@GulayBeans well anyway, it's not like his real father was good to him. the son can forget the matter and move on his life.
@@GulayBeans still, I'm sure he will not forgive his father... and his adopted brother.
So....We're just not gonna acknowledge Matt Damon at 03:53?
DAYUM SON IT'S PROSECUTE NOT PERSECUTE LOL
Ok, I lasted 4 minutes , now I'm out.
I don't know how he scammed people just that wine can be expensive and FBI investigated him. This is just one of those videos that drag a subject out as long and painfully as possible to trick the youtube algorithm to get as much cash as possible.
I'm sure they will get to how he scammed people at about 10:40 in this 10:46 long video. But I won't check.
My guess is that he refilled used expensive wine bottles with cheaper wine.
He did exactly that, and also faked bottles and labels.
Wow. What a fraud!
I remember paying € 15 to an Italian merlot bottle in 2012. That was the most expensive bottle that I have ever bought.
The finest wine that I have drunk is in my hand right now, produced by myself on my balcony from local grapes without any additives or fraud. It might not be the best ever wine but at least I know what it is.
Now Rudy is collecting honey from murder bees........lol
What’s the point in me paying a lot when every wine I had just taste like grape juice that gets me buzzed.
and in the end it only becomes urine...
Moral of the story Don’t Drink and Scheme 😂🤣😂🤣
A couple of years ago I had the chance to buy the surplus stock of a restaurant for €35 a bottle. It turned out that the collection included some 1958 Chateau Margaux.
No way
A person proffiting off of the rich's money laundering and tax dodging? We cannot have that.
Loved it.
Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (That I've purchased)
SANDEMAN Old Tawny Porto aged 40 years: $222.59
I like port, this one was my favorite.
I've Tried Warre's and Taylor Fladgate's Port.... not for me.
I’d love to see a movie of this.
There is one it's called sour grapes
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There are a few technicalities I’m sure added to him getting caught.
One of the obvious things that he didn’t research: the actual years wines have been released by particular vineyards. He also probably used the contemporary adhesive on the labels which would be detected pretty easily.
Most I have ever spent so far for one bottle of wine was $225 for a 2016 Peter Michael Point Rouge. Haven’t drank it yet.
That's a good price. Find someone you like who likes wine and plan a meal around it. I would suggest Scallops with a Bearnaise sauce, or a simple fish like snapper meuniere, drowning in butter. Crab cakes would also be nice as a starter. Bon appétit and Santé!
I bought a bottle of Chimney Rock estate grown Cab for $145.00. I gave it to my son for his promotion to Master Sargent in the U.S.A.F.
Most expensive I’ve purchased? 19 Crimes.. $9.56
I once paid three dollars for a bottle of two buck chuck....total scam...call in the FBI
I paid $4.95, about $6, for a bottle recently. I'm in the big time wine aficionados 😊
At least I drink my bottles of cheap wine instead of having those expensive bottles for showing off.
William Kock a victim?!😂😂😂
High end wine and art is serious waste of money. After 2-3 drinks 9.99 will give you enough buzz
Most people don’t drink expensive vintage they collect
Amass a network/business worth over half a billion fraudulently; pay $20M in fees to authorities, $28M in restitutions and a quick 10year sentence (probably out in 5-7 on good behavior). Fast forward to today, he's just worried about which yacht to take out this weekend while he drinks his stash of legit wine he had substituted for cheap shit. Long story short, the judicial system doesn't stress over *fraud* (rather almost encourages it) as much as it should.
So he was made to pay 28 million in restitution and 20 million to the courts. He made off with 500 million after serving 10 years in prison. Is this how it went down?
Does it have to be in a bottle or can it have come in a box?
Thank God I drink beer and not wine. Seriously...who the hell is going to make 'counterfeit Budweiser'?
Im an actual wine farmer and can only laugh about it tbh.
Probably $20 bucks was the most I spent on a bottle of wine
Love the casino references
"Cheval BLANK" ::stops watching::
A few seconds later he says "affiction-ados". I stopped there.
Then he pronounces it correctly later.
Those are some heavy fines and restitution but the million dollar question is how much did he get to walk away with?
Back in high school days, i once spent $8.95 on a box of wine
I remember the Bulgarian wines that cost about $5 in the late 60's
Loved the bit in sour grapes when two of the wine buffs took this bottle to a restaurant. One guy has a taste and is like this is skunk juice!! Brilliant, it just shows that these doofuses were buying Rudy's piss water for ages. So good.
If he hadn't been so greedy, he would still be doing that today.
Kb Calib if he hadn’t been so greedy, he could have quit while he had say $100,000,000 in the bank.
well at least he will come out of jail with more than 450 million dollars in his bank account