Luxury wines draw astronomical prices, making them a popular target for fraudsters.
At Hamburg's Four Seasons Hotel, sommelier Christian Scholz lords over a vault housing some of the world's finest wines. Every time he serves up a bottle of exquisite red, he needs to make sure no one can fill it with a cheap Pinot and resell it afterwards.
In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & features desk, the sommelier reveals how he guards expensive wine against the "huge issue" of fraud.
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TOP FEATURE: How a sommelier guards rare wines against 'huge issue' of fraud
How do you make sure a bottle of red with a €10,000 price tag isn't resold filled with cheap Pinot Noir? A head sommelier at a high-end hotel in Hamburg explains the system in place to protect rare wines against counterfeiting.
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More than a decade after Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed protests against him and his regime, the country has been inundated with drugs which are threatening society. One of the biggest beneficiaries - the country's ruler al-Assad.
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