This is the American Greed podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keach.

In this episode of American Greed, in the big money world of fine and rare wine,

there's one name that's spoken with awe, Rudy Cornelow. He had the deepest seller of the most collectible wines in the world. He was

able to produce them, and that made him a star. Rich collectors want to fill their sellers with

trophy wines, and Corniowan is their source. So it kind of became a feeding frenzy for these

mythical wines that really don't exist very often in the world.

Selling wine to billionaires makes Kurniawan a fortune.

Rudy Kurniwan loved the high life. He spent his money on every kind of luxury you can imagine.

He was building a mansion in Beverly Hills. He bought cars like a Lamborghini. But when experts look closely at his bottles,

they discover a massive crime.

The funny thing is that this label has a lot of things wrong with it.

This bottle, which came from Rudy Crenio on, is counterfeit.

The label in this particular case is a reproduction. It's fake.

Something was too good to be true.

It's called the Coke Door, the Golden Slope. These gently rolling hills in the Burgundy region of France

produce what many consider to be the world's finest wine.

There is a flavor balance that is both powerful

and utterly soft and feminine.

It is really an iron fist in a velvet glove.

Visitors are often surprised by how tiny Burgundy's vineyards are.

The legendary Romani-Conte Vineyard, for example, is just over four acres.

Or to use a classic American yardstick,

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