How to spot fake capsules

As you may imagine, I have amassed far more material on the subject of wine fraud than worked its way past the FT’s lawyers for publication here last Saturday. I was a bit alarmed that on the front page, the FT promised that my article told you “how to spot a wine fraud” when I don’t really think it did. Here anyway is one small clue.

 

One of the less controversial snippets is the following advice about capsules, commonly given spurious apparent age by counterfeiters, from Russell H Frye, the American collector and software entrepreneur who has been working...