It takes bad news to get wine on the front pages (okay, near the front pages!) of many periodicals – but here is such a case. In this selection of reports you will note that many of those periodicals are important US news-gatherers-disseminators – but then the trial is in New York and has the odd NY billionaire testifying! It makes a great angle for newspapers that a billionaire can be defrauded by a young, foreigner, illegally living in the US.

Actually, far from bad news, I think this is great news. Forgers have had an easy a life in wine circles. It really should be time for some payback! Anyone can get away with forging Bordeaux it seems, but eventually it is Burgundy that trips people up. Hopefully Kurniawan will eventually sing like a canary, because most of the producers involved don’t believe he had the knowledge to work alone…

• Billionaire Continues Crusade (CBS New York)
• A Koch Brother, on a Crusade (New York Times)
• Koch Unplugged & Wine Führers (Wine Diarist)
• William Koch testifies (NYDailyNews)
• Burgundy All-Stars Testify (Wine Spectator)

Whilst its 160 pages (plus…) length, its breadth and its meanderings now make it largely un-navigable, you should know that the mother-thread for all that is Kurniawan, is housed here on WineBerserkers. Doubtless, you can add half a dozen other reports to those bulleted above, but Don Cornwell’s occasional (and quite full) reports from the trial, are to be found (towards the end) of the linked WineBerserkers thread – like this – they are not to be missed.

We are all inevitably prisoners of our history and experience…

Here

Dreamy tasting location: Lausanne last Thursday…

Believe it or not, I’ve actually been doing a lot of typing! What that basically means is that an annual Burgundy Report will be winging its way onto the net after my last tasting appointments – so roughly by the end of this month.

Additional things I’ve seen, include:

• A motivational review of ‘A Year in Burgundy’ – which means I should buy a copy.
• Then there’s a 2013 Burgundy Harvest Review, over on Winesearcher – I prefered my original text, but hey…
• And it’s also nice to see that Jon Wyand is keeping busy 😉
• Very interesting from Jancis’s team: Fighting fakes in China – Part 1

Cheers!

Of course there’s a big (editor’s) error in the second paragraph, but a good article none-the-less…

(and no, no new wines yet – sinuses remain stubbornly locked…)