Italy’s deep-rooted wine culture is world-renowned, and Italians take immense pride in the exceptional quality of both their food and wine. As Europe's largest wine producer, Italy boasts a wine ...

Six people were accused of operating a European wine fraud ring that sold fake French wine for up to $16,000 per bottle, police said. Police in Italy searched 14 properties and seized a large ...

The centre of this kind of fraud is said to be Italy. That is because they have the wine know-how there: artisans who understand labelling and old bottles and corks; and also a criminal underworld ...

Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles.

Several European authorities have uncovered a group involved in counterfeiting French wine in Italy. The investigation was led by the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale). It involved the ...

The group is accused of counterfeiting bottles of Grand Cru in Italy and then distributing them for sale among "honest wine traders" around the world. Police said they had seized a "large amount ...

Six people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a wine fraud ring that allegedly sold fake French wine for up to €15,000 ($16,300) per bottle. Police in Italy searched 14 ...

They appeared in 2019 on the top shelves of wine merchants in Italy and Switzerland, catering to wealthy customers and their finer palates. The price tag? 15,000 euros. The bottles weren’t worth ...

John Lithgow has said that Stanley Tucci made some locals particularly starstruck when he went to a wine shop in Italy with him and Ralph Fiennes – but in Italy, Lithgow himself was a “nobody”.