Ep 69: Wine Fraud and tips to identify Counterfeited wine bottles with Siobhan Turner MW (Part 1)

To download the transcript CLICK HERE This episode I am talking with Master of Wine Siobhan Turner. We are talking about her journey in wine, her time as Director of the Institute of Master of Wine, her biggest struggles as a MW student and she gives us fantastic advice on blind tasting. Siobhan is now woking with wine authentification and she gives us advice on making sure we don't buy counterfeits and explains how people are producing these fake bottles. If you want to skip ahead: 2.45 Chat with Siobhan Turner MW 5.43 Working as the Director of the Institute of Master of Wine 12.31 Struggles with Bling tasting and her advise to overcome this 18.12 Best part of the MW programme 20.16 Heartwarming anecdote of Siobhan's husband during her studies 21.01 Finding out she has passed her MW 26.20 Working with Maureen Downey in Wine Fraud 27.17 Discussing the 'skills' of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan 27.57 Two wakes fake bottles can be produced 30.51 Looking for and how to identify a fake bottle 32.27 Looking for the inaccuracies 34.30 Whar wineries are doing to combat this 36.30 Advise of purchasing for your wine cellar Fancy watching some videos on my youtube channel: Eat Sleep Wine Repeat Or come say hi at www.eatsleepwinerepeat.co.uk Or contact me on Instagram @eatsleep_winerepeat or on email: [email protected] Until next time, Cheers to you!