The Great Wine Fraud Of Rudy Kurniawan

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to talk all about a fraudster that rocked the world of fine wine for years: Rudy Kurniawan. They break down just how he managed to infiltrate the world of ridiculously expensive wines without being detected and all the methods he employed to elude capture and make millions of dollars in the process. To end the show, they play a game of "My Way or The Sideways," where they are faced with a choice of either answering some obscure trivia questions about wine or trying their luck with wine-related pop culture trivia. SOURCES: Sour Grapes Documentary https://apnews.com/article/sour-grapes-wine-fraud-rudy-kurniawan-deported-indonesia-440498ff72a055cedf606b56ecbbd052 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/11/the-great-wine-fraud-a-vintage-swindle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world of fine wine is known to be prohibitively expensive and generally reserved only for the
0:07.7	super rich.
0:08.7	However, in the early 2000s, a young man named Rudy Kurniawan mysteriously appeared on
0:15.1	the wine auction circuit and immediately made a name for himself.
0:18.8	Rudy became known for his impressive wine knowledge and for his almost unbelievable collection
0:23.5	of fine wines valued at millions of dollars.
0:26.9	He then started surrounding him in his collection and when various powerful investors discovered
0:31.7	fraudulent wines in the sellers, all roads seemed to lead to Rudy.
0:36.6	Was Rudy single-handedly to blame for this widespread conning of the world of wine?
0:42.5	Betches media presents.
0:45.4	Not another true crime podcast.
0:48.3	It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
1:02.8	I know these people were spending millions on wine and I'm like $15 is my budget.
1:08.0	Oh, yeah.
1:09.0	Well, we can be in the Chateau of Diana.
1:11.4	That's my region.
1:12.4	I love Chateau Diana.
1:15.5	It's not even wine.
1:19.1	It's like wine products that they sell at the grocery store.
1:21.5	You can send your kid to school.
1:22.9	Don't try it.
1:23.9	You can send them to school with Chateau Diana and I feel that it's legal.
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