Fighting fakes in China – part 4

Under client instructions we returned to Changli, Yantai and Penglai in August 2011 to deliver bottles of counterfeit wine and talk through their irregularities with the public authorities, after which I left China, with the client picking up direct communications with them.

Nearly a year would pass until July 2012 when I agreed to investigate printers of counterfeit labels in Shenzhen. Despite there being label printers in the northern wine-producing areas, they were poor quality and only companies in southern Shenzhen had the knowhow and expensive machines to produce...