I consider buying Yellow Tail a rare treat. He simply wanted his pals to give him a fist-bump for awesome wine-owning skills.īecause I barely make enough money to pay my rent each month, I know absolutely nothing about the elite wine world. Mooney also added that his client wasn't doing it out of greed-he only made fake wine to impress his friends. Well, as true as this is, fraud is still fraud. Nobody lost their job," he said in a statement reported by the LA Times. Kurniawan's attorney, Jerome Mooney, tried to implement the infamous "dude, chill out" defense to save his client. Facepalm! From there, Laurent Ponsot began a four-year investigation, determined to oust the man who dared to profit off of fake Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint-Denis. However, Kurniawan was claiming to sell over three dozen bottles of Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint-Denis dated from 1945 to 1971. Kurniawan's world started crashing down when Laurent Ponsot, the proprietor of Domaine Ponsot, (which I am told is a reputable maker of that Burgundy stuff) got an email from a lawyer and oenophile asking him when Domaine Ponsot started producing wine from Clos Saint-Denis. He even managed to dupe William Koch brother into spending over $2 million on what was essentially "two-buck Chuck." Of course, to a Koch, $2 million is chump change, but Kurniawan's recent public flogging is really what Koch and others wanted. For a while, no one knew this guy was pulling the greatest wine prank of all time, because most rich people will believe anything another rich person tells them. A lot of his supposedly very rare bottles sold for tens of thousands of dollars, most of which claimed to be vintage Burgundies from France. His former business partner claims he had "a photographic aromatic memory." (Try to say that out loud without rolling your eyes.) From there, he thought it'd be a great idea to sell some too. Having endless amounts of daddy's money, Kurniawan soon started buying up millions of dollars worth of wine.
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