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

EAT SLEEP WINE REPEAT: A wine podcast

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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

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