One of Mr Kurniawan’s lawyers, Henry Weissmann, did not immediately return a
phone message.
In a 2006 profile in the Los Angeles Times, Mr Kurniawan boasted of buying
nearly $35 million in wine that year, sometimes dropping $75,000 on a single
case, and he talked of his own skill at sniffing out forgeries.
Investigators said in court papers that Kurniawan made some simple mistakes
that led to his arrest. One of those bottles of Domaine Ponsot he tried to
sell at auction in 2008 was passed off as having been made in 1929, even
though the winemaker didn’t begin estate bottling until 1934.
Source: AP
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