Giles Cadman

by Giles Cadman Dr Noah Charney and Stuart George have written a fascinating book about wine forgery, The Wine Forger’s Handbook. Amazon’s description is appropriate for a very good read. Fine wine is a multi-million dollar industry, and is fraught with peril. From forged bottles to fraudulent contents, from mislabeled wine to misled consumers, wine has been […]

by Giles Cadman Apparently the Irish have a massive problem with counterfeit wine, with the Irish Independent claiming that as many as one in ten could be fake. This number seems to be based on an industry experts opinion, rather than detailed research. French-born sommelier and long-time wine lecturer Alain Bras said Irish buyers might have […]

by Giles Cadman Those who are too young to remember, or who did not live in Britain in the seventies it was a time where the British believed their nation was in decline and noone could do anything about it. Baroness Thatcher did not believe this, and did believe she could lead Britain into the […]

by Giles Cadman It is unusual to see any one in the media take such a strong stance on an individual, but the Mirror has on wine con man Stephen Boyd. We called Stephen Pierre Boyd a habitual con man when we wrote about him seven years ago and nothing’s changed since. His operations Boington […]

by Giles Cadman With the release of new information about HS2 in Britain airport capacity appears to be off the agenda. In Sydney, where they have faced similar dithering by politicians over decades, at least they have site ready for expansion. A SECOND airport site at Wilton to the south-west of Sydney would not work […]

by Giles Cadman The US economy has grown at a far greater rate than was forecast in the previous quarter. This bodes well for the US economy, and the world, as the US is one of the major engines of growth. I am not surprised at the results. I have spent time in the US in […]

by Giles Cadman A commenter on my previous post about Armenian wine passed on this lovely little anecdote. The war booty directory from the Assyrian raids of the 9th century BC include Armenian wine. Specialists concur that the grapes cultivated in Assyria later were of Armenian origins and the wine making technologies in Egypt, Assyria […]

by Giles Cadman In a pragmatic move that will protect a famous brand Yquem is not producing a 2012 vintage because it does not believe it can produce wine worthy of its name. The world’s most famous sweet-white wine producer, Château d’Yquem, has revealed that it will not produce its highly prized Sauternes for the first time in […]

by Giles Cadman In a major wine fraud in the Netherlands, three people have been jailed for defrauding investors of €19.4m. Three people have been jailed for their role in an investment fraud based on allegedly rare wines, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Wednesday. John T, said to be the brain behind the scam was jailed […]

by Giles Cadman This is a great video taking a tour of Champagne.