How to make fake foreign wine and how to identify it

(Baonghean.vn)-Although the number of cases of smuggled and fake alcohol discovered by the provincial authorities is less than the same period of previous years, in reality, it is still very complicated. To help readers recognize fake foreign alcohol, Nghe An Electronic Newspaper introduces some evidence used to produce fake foreign alcohol that the Vinh City Police have just discovered and seized, as well as how to recognize and distinguish fake foreign alcohol.

Some types of fake wine discovered by Vinh City Police in Project 124R

On December 21, 2014, Vinh City Police caught Nghiem Van Do red-handed while transporting 13 bottles of fake Chivas 12 and 18 for sale in Ben Thuy Ward, Vinh City. Through the investigation, Do Khai and Nguyen Van Thanh (born in 1992, Do's wife's younger brother), residing in Vinh My Block, Vinh Tan Ward, Vinh City, committed the act of producing fake foreign wine at Nghiem Van Do's house.

At 1:40 p.m. on December 21, 2014, the Vinh City Police Department issued an emergency arrest warrant for Nguyen Van Thanh and searched Nghiem Van Do's residence in Vinh My block, Vinh Tan ward, Vinh City. During the search, they discovered and temporarily seized more related evidence including: 5 bottles of Chivas 18, 1 bottle of Chivas 12, 19 bottles of Jon Black label, 31 bottles of Whiskey; 48 bottles of Chivas 12, 18, 21, Ballantines, Godlabel Resene, Jon Black label; 105 boxes of Chivas 12, 18, 2, Ballantines, Godlabel Resene, Jon Black label and some other items such as corks, funnels... used to "produce" fake foreign wine.

Box used to produce fake Chivas 21

The box used to produce fake Ballantines

Box used to produce fake Chivas 12

Corks used to produce counterfeit foreign wine

The "raw material" to produce Ballantines, Chivas 12, 18, 21, Godlabel Resene, Jon Black label is cheap Lao whisky bought from Huong Son (Ha Tinh).

At the investigation agency, Nguyen Van Do and Nguyen Van Thanh confessed that in order to "produce" fake foreign wine bottles such as Ballantines, Chivas 12, 18, 21, Godlabel Resene, Jon Black label with labels and seals that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye to import to retail kiosks in Vinh City and Ha Tinh Town, the subjects bought labels, bottles, and boxes from Ho Chi Minh City. The "raw materials" were cheap Black Lao wine bottles purchased from Huong Son (Ha Tinh). After mixing and bottling by hand, the subjects brought them to the market for consumption.

Subjects Nguyen Van Thanh and Nghiem Van Do

The cost for Nghiem Van Do and Nguyen Van Thanh to produce a fake bottle of John Black label, which was sold for 300,000 VND, to produce a fake bottle of Chivas 12, which was sold for 300,000 VND, to produce a fake bottle of Chivas 18, which was sold for 200,000 VND, to produce a fake bottle of Chivas 18, which was sold for 800,000 VND, and to produce a fake bottle of Chivas 21, which was sold for 400,000 VND. The Investigation Team is currently expanding the investigation to recover the fake bottles of wine that the subjects have put on the market and handle related subjects according to the provisions of the law.

How to distinguish real and fake foreign wine:

Wine level in bottle:Normally, strong liquors such as Brandy, Cognac, Whiskey… of brands around the world are bottled automatically, so in principle, the alcohol level inside the bottles is very even. Counterfeiters often only bottle by hand, so the alcohol level inside the bottles is often uneven. When observing a row of liquors of the same brand in the store, if you see a bottle with a different alcohol level than the rest, you can suspect that it may be a fake bottle, and continue to check the following factors.

Fake Chivas 12, 18 wines

Color in bottle:When observing a row of bottles of the same brand in a store under the same light angle, if you see a bottle with a different color than the rest, you can suspect that it is a fake. The color can be lighter, darker, or cloudy, cloudy... However, the different color is not enough to confirm that it is a fake.

Check the wine label:Most of the fake wine bottles on the market reuse real bottles and labels, but during the cleaning process, the real label may be scratched or peeled off, so the counterfeiters have printed fake labels instead. The big difference between real and fake labels is that fake labels cannot imitate the embossing, metallic colors, etc. of the original brand.

The fake Black Label wine produced by Do and Thanh has an unclear label.

Check the button cap:Usually, counterfeiters often reuse real lids, or completely fake lids. If you look closely, the reused real lids may still have small scratches from the process of opening the lid, and the color of the fake lid looks dull, the grooves of the fake lid do not look as delicate and regular as the real lid...

Check the bottom of the bottle:There are some types of wine that are counterfeited by drilling a very small hole, like a hair, at the bottom of the bottle to draw out the real wine and pump in the fake wine. Therefore, when buying, you should observe carefully at the bottom of the bottle. If there are any strange traces, you should not buy it. The drilling marks are often in hard-to-see places, for example: in the middle of the circle of the letters "A, O, B, .." or in places where there are marks on the bottle during production. After drawing out the wine, the hole is carefully sealed with clear glue, so it is very difficult to detect. You need to observe carefully to find such holes.

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