This is the American Greek 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 all, Rudy Cornillo.

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.

These collectors want to fill their sellers with trophy wines and Cornillo wine 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 Cornillo wine a fortune.

Rudy Cornillo 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 Cornillo 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 Côte d'Or, the golden slope.

These gently rolling hills and 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 an utterly soft and feminine.

It is really an iron fist and a velvet glove.

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

The legendary Romany Conti vineyard, for example, is just over four acres.

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