When the FBI arrests someone for wine fraud, you know the crime has moved into the mainstream. Rumours about the young wine enthusiast apparently called Rudy Kurniawan (he used several aliases) had been flying around the US wine community for some time, but it still came as a shock when, in early March, his house in southern California was raided. He was arrested and photographs of his counterfeiting equipment (including wads of labels of Chateaux Pétrus, Lafleur and Lafite) were circulated.
當聯邦調查局(FBI)以制造假冒葡萄酒為罪名而逮捕某人時，這種越來越猖獗的犯罪形式也隨之浮出水面。關于這位叫做魯迪?庫尼亞萬(Rudy Kurniawan)的葡萄酒愛好者（事實上他有著很多的化名）的傳聞其實已經在美國葡萄酒業界內流傳甚久，但當事情在三月初真正發生時，人們還是深感意外。他位于南加州(southern California)的住所被警方搜查，本人遭到逮捕，警方拍攝到的照片被人們廣為傳播，照片內容包括造假設備和大量的假冒酒標，其中有著名莊園柏圖斯(Pétrus)，拉芙樂(Lafleur)和拉菲(Lafite)。