The Greatest Wine Forger- Rudy Kurniawan 

He got caught because he produced vintages that didn't exist and magnums that were never made. I don't get how he could have been so meticulous with other details but not with these ones! Surely these would be the easiest details to get right, and the easiest mistakes for others to spot

The fact that he can reproduce vintage wine tastes with cheap ones just means the vintage ones are over rated, over priced. He just proved that the whole vintage thing is a sham.

That he could imitate the taste of extremely expensive wines [ ~$20,000/bottle] by mixing cheaper wines together has great value. This means the taste of great bottles can be imitated for the 'rest of us', by blending. There is genius behind that. Granted it may not work all the time, the Burgundy group found that out 34:00 but it worked half the time to fool these experts, and even connoisseurs 29:43. He could become the "John Myatt" of the wine world, as John is for the painting world. What the video doesn't emphasize is he had to have substantial capital to start his forgery business: he had to learn the trade, get into cliques, build relationships, bid for wines to test and serve as models to copy, etc., before the payback. It means he had means to begin with that were substantial, whether that money was eventually going to dry up or he was greedy, would make a good Part II, a prequel.

It's honestly crazy to see this and think how Rudy could've actually been an amazing winery manager and blender, but instead had his fixations on greed ruined possibly a small chance of him maybe having a successful career in wine.

I watched TV document about him many years ago and that hopefully showed how much on wine is show and how much there is actual reality. So many people need to know reviews of wine before they can tell do they like it or not.

I'm highly annoyed but fascinated at the same time

His uncle, Edi Tansil is the biggest corruptor in Indonesia

the worst part abour forgerers is that they do not know how to stop, he could have stopped when he sold his first bodega and scape with all that money but as I said above this kind of people don't know how to stop.

I love wine forgers. Awful people ripping off awful people. The marriage of immoral avarice with vain, empty, meaningless status seeking… monsters eating each other

Love to the subtle taste of mirroring

Gotta respect the greats of anything

Very good documentary!!

He could have probably got away with MadDog 20/20. At $4.95 a bottle none would ever question it. Get greedy. Get caught.

These 'wine people' using the name 'Burgundy' is in itself a scam...there is no such thing as an American Burgundy wine...Bourgogne is in France ,period.

When he gets out he can make a fortune by recreating wines for the average public. I just don’t think he had this grand plan…I think he got over his head and saw an opportunity to fund his financial life jacket.

the fact that Laurent Ponsot himself spent all his effort learning about how to forge his wine means nobody can stop him if he decides to forge some himself XD

I dont feel anything for the rich wine snobs who bought the fake wine. I do however feel sorry for the producer/s of whos wines were forged.

His brother is also a corruptor in Indonesia.

Greetings from the international space station?

Bad ass

That Kyle smith guy seems really hurt 😔

We built a house for the owner of an award winning Canadian winery and he gifted us a case of his plonk. It reminded me of a gas siphoning mishap i experienced as a kid. My palette may be poor or perhaps those who hand out awards are in on the racket.

The Tansil Family Tycoon, Fraud and Corruption are their business.

I wish, he would have sold his dupes openly!

Playing with fires. He deliberately try to sell rare ones that didn't exist.

he's the nephew of the biggest corruptor in Indonesia

Снег зимой красивый!

Rock on Rudy you just proved that in the wine society's that there all just wannabees...trying to be kool 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Perfect!

All thanks to Ponsot getting the ball rolling on this

Which begs the question. What is WORTH

This fraud incident is embarrassing for Indonesia..because his family is famous for fraud that has reached the international level.

the cork could be a big giveaway in term of age.

Having known some of these kind of characters in NY through Art Galleries & high end catering..,I don't understand how any of these guys could impress and fool sane/normal people...they were bozos with tons of cash , really... flying really low on zero IQ or charisma.spending their family"s wealth.....incredible.

Обворовывать толтосумом это благое дело. Так что Руди Курниаван это современный Робин Гуд

He only IS jail because the rich people he scamed they did make sure off It. Great scam .

Robbie Coltrane would hve made a decent Kyle Smith in the movie. Hollywood: Where are you?

Just found a book entitled In Vino Duplicitas.

Too bad they destroyed thousands of his bottles, they could've wrote his name on all of them and had a second life. After all ,he was an amazing wine maker

Ini ponakannya Edi Tansil, Edi sendri kabur ke China dan di sana bermasalah juga, perusahaannya ditutup pemerintah

Any books on the issue. .Any documentary on Knoedler Art gallery fraud.

Why didn't he just make his own wines by mixing others. That's not criminal.

Pity about the annoying and distracting music from an otherwise very well-made documentary.

Well that bad but cool

how did the wine not go flat after opening multiple wines and mixing them together in new bottle?

"astronomical amount of bottles"? What 12-year-old wrote this script?

I can see it now. Kurniawan labelled wines that are blended for a specific region or style. I would buy a bottle.

Ugh, can you show more close-up partials... where we see part of a face, bottle, or whatever. Terrible camera work. Watch 'Sour Grapes' over this.

Victimless crime

Elmer's Glue was found on a bottle claiming to be from 1898. Elmer's Glue didn't come out until the 1970s

SPY !

He is obviously very talented but sadly, did not put it to good , ethical use.

Hi! Are we allowed to use footage from this?

this the first time I proud to be Indonesian, because we were colonized by western people about 350 years and now only 1 person of Indonesian Rudy is able to trick so much western people. I cannot imagine what can be done by us millions of Indonesian people to western people. lol !

How is he great? He didn't even research what years certain vintages came out. That's a rookie move and doesn't scream intelligence.

At 33.01, the French speaking expert says something about DRC, which is mistranslated as being one of the "largest" Burgundy estates, when it must be that he says it is one of the greatest estates, is somewhat of a major error, otherwise an interesting episode... the French term Grande has been poorly translated in this instance...

OFFSTAGE HANG brought me here

Rogan sent me here.

He should have started his own labels. Why pretend to be something else?

Dead row

Wine enthusiasts are so cringe

Tikus cina di indonesia

Joe Rogan got me here! "Modest house"????....entire story of a bunch of douche bags complaining about being "had" by a fellow douche bag....Rudy?? Good salesman; knows his customer. When dealing with people with more money than sense...douche it up!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 we are genius

He’s getting out soon!!! 😃

Commercial wine companies put sulfates in wine to speed up the fermentation process to sell cheap wine, and this guy is scam artist. 🤣🤣🤣

Rudi from china !

I think wine is nasty tasting anyway, if you are paying over $5 per bottle you are getting scammed.

great doc but poor narrator..very few female narrators can do the job for crime docs ,and I can't even think of one now...

Joe rogan brought me here!

Try and learn cheat to us ..

NO LIKE !! TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA

he wasn't a genius his buyers were morons! seriously come on he was using modern bottles to "forge" 40s vintage bottles! lol