Rudy trial starts

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

Apparently, he just wanted to fit in.
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Crazy.

Almost as laughable as this defense: his defense lawyer, Jerome Mooney, said that the rare wine market is plagued by counterfeits and that buying and selling fakes is common.

That type of defense doesn't pass muster for a 7-year old explaining why he ate all the candy, I sure hope it doesn't have firmer ground for a 37-year old explaining fraud and theft!
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

Apparently, he just wanted to fit in.
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Crazy.

Almost as laughable as this defense: his defense lawyer, Jerome Mooney, said that the rare wine market is plagued by counterfeits and that buying and selling fakes is common.

That type of defense doesn't pass muster for a 7-year old explaining why he ate all the candy, I sure hope it doesn't have firmer ground for a 37-year old explaining fraud and theft!
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I think his claim, as quoted, wasn't that it was OK because everybody was doing it but that the counterfeits he sold, he bought thinking them genuine. It would be a defense if it were remotely plausible.
 
On the bright side, John Kapon is drinking fuck-you Ponsot during the trial:
https://twitter.com/x/status/413167375874547712

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And Acker was hawking this, this morning:
Ponsot’s Clos de la Roche is the reference standard for this vineyard. Ponsot is easily the largest holder in Clos de la Roche and has the lion’s share of the original core of the vineyard. This is a wine of extraordinary power; however it will need a number of years to reach maturity. For those of you who wait you will be rewarded with a magnificent wine of immense complexity and class. This is one of the all-time great Burgundy’s



2009 Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes

This impressively complete wine offers up very ripe aromas of spice, earth and game that introduce strikingly rich, naturally sweet and mouth coating big-bodied flavors that explode on the formidably long finish. This is a classy wine with absolutely superb complexity, impeccable balance and almost uncanny presence, all delivered with grace and power. Be prepared to be patient however as this will need plenty of time. A 'wow' wine that possess excellent verve, especially within the context of the '09 vintage.

96 points Burghound

$699 per bottle



This wine is limited all orders subject to confirmation
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originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

2009 Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes

96 points Burghound

$699 per bottle
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Fine stuff, no doubt, but no '59.
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Is there perhaps some confusion here?

1959 Clos de la Roche from Ponsot was actually made and genuine bottles may well survive to this day (I would guess that almost certainly, there are still some in Ponsot's cellar).

1929 Clos de la Roche from Ponsot was not a real wine (well, it sort of was; Ponsot made and bottled wine in 1929, but then shipped it all to relatives in Northern Italy who sold it as red wine, not Clos de la Roche, in the train station restaurants there).

1959 Clos St. Denis from Ponsot is not a real wine, either (despite multiple bottles listed on cellartracker, along with multiple bottles of the fictitious 1962 and 1971 Ponsot Clos St. Denis).

The 1929 Clos de la Roche and the 1959 Clos St.-Denis are two of the wines that tripped Rudy up, but not 1959 Clos de la Roche.
 
Well now that this Master Villain is taken care of, are there any ideas about how many other bad apples are out there and whether it will be easier/harder for them to operate now?
 
I can't believe the blatant lies by John Kapon in the Acker catalogues about the provenance of bottles consigned by Rudy to his auctions. In his description of the lots, he claims flat out that they were from a collector who had had them for decades. Isn't that illegal in some way?

ETA: Per attorney Don Cornwell.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Well now that this Master Villain is taken care of, are there any ideas about how many other bad apples are out there and whether it will be easier/harder for them to operate now?
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The problem was widespread before Rudy, and there's no reason to believe that just because he was arrested and now convicted, everyone else decided to pack it in and go straight. Especially since Rudy raised the prices dramatically for so many wines, thereby greatly increasing the potential profits.

There's an Acker, Merrall, Cohen wine auction today. You might want to look at the catalog on line and decide for yourself whether all looks in order: http://ackerwines.co/Catalogs/139_FINAL_WEB.PDF.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Well now that this Master Villain is taken care of, are there any ideas about how many other bad apples are out there and whether it will be easier/harder for them to operate now?
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The problem was widespread before Rudy, and there's no reason to believe that just because he was arrested and now convicted, everyone else decided to pack it in and go straight. Especially since Rudy raised the prices dramatically for so many wines, thereby greatly increasing the potential profits.

There's an Acker, Merrall, Cohen wine auction today. You might want to look at the catalog on line and decide for yourself whether all looks in order: http://ackerwines.co/Catalogs/139_FINAL_WEB.PDF.
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Some very, what's the word, desirable fill levels in those bottles. all must be from unique provenance.
 
originally posted by Tristan Welles:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Well now that this Master Villain is taken care of, are there any ideas about how many other bad apples are out there and whether it will be easier/harder for them to operate now?
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The problem was widespread before Rudy, and there's no reason to believe that just because he was arrested and now convicted, everyone else decided to pack it in and go straight. Especially since Rudy raised the prices dramatically for so many wines, thereby greatly increasing the potential profits.

There's an Acker, Merrall, Cohen wine auction today. You might want to look at the catalog on line and decide for yourself whether all looks in order: http://ackerwines.co/Catalogs/139_FINAL_WEB.PDF.
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Some very, what's the word, desirable fill levels in those bottles. all must be from unique provenance.
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