Now that whiskey/bourbon/scotch has gotten so popular:
Rare whisky market flooded with fakes, says dealer
Lab tests found 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintage scotch were counterfeit
A whisky dealer has warned that the rare whisky market has been flooded with fakes after laboratory tests found one-third of samples were counterfeit.
The Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) found 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintage scotch whisky, some apparently worth tens of thousands of pounds, were either fake or were not distilled in the year claimed.
The fakes included one purporting to be a bottle of Ardbeg 1885, a single malt; a rare Thorne’s Heritage early 20th century blended whisky; and an Ardbeg malt allegedly bottled in the 1960s.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/20/rare-whisky-market-flooded-with-fakes-says-dealer
https://www.theguardian.com/society...lop-artificial-tongue-to-detect-fake-whiskies
Rare whisky market flooded with fakes, says dealer
Lab tests found 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintage scotch were counterfeit
A whisky dealer has warned that the rare whisky market has been flooded with fakes after laboratory tests found one-third of samples were counterfeit.
The Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) found 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintage scotch whisky, some apparently worth tens of thousands of pounds, were either fake or were not distilled in the year claimed.
The fakes included one purporting to be a bottle of Ardbeg 1885, a single malt; a rare Thorne’s Heritage early 20th century blended whisky; and an Ardbeg malt allegedly bottled in the 1960s.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/20/rare-whisky-market-flooded-with-fakes-says-dealer
https://www.theguardian.com/society...lop-artificial-tongue-to-detect-fake-whiskies