Sour grapes as buyers fork out $1.3m for fake vintage wines

A US wine merchant has been convicted of conning aficionados into paying millions for fake bottles of some of the world’s rarest vintages.

California-based Rudy Kurniawan remained expressionless as the verdict was given in a New York court.

Prosecutors said he put on a “magic show” to fool buyers into thinking he had access to the wines but made the fake vintages in his kitchen.