In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire

Few gain entry to the privileged world of ultrafine wines, where billionaires flock to exclusive auction houses to vie for the scarce surviving bottles from truly legendary years. But Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething from Indonesia, was blessed with two gifts that opened doors: a virtuoso palate for wine tasting, and access to a seemingly limitless (if mysterious) supply of the world's most coveted wines.



After bursting onto the scene in 2002, Kurniawan quickly became the leading p...