Counterfeit yellow tail wine full#
The only thing they were worried about in my opinion was buying cheap alcohol, selling it at full retail price, making as much money as humanly possible."Īnd so, in the end, the Birmingham supermarket that sold the fake wine (which, for the record, was determined not to be unsafe) has faced the worst consequences for now: As Birmingham Live explained in a follow-up, the store's alcohol license was revoked, its supervisor was removed, and Nisa-the chain affiliated with the store-cut ties with the location and promised to remove its branding. The premises didn't know if this was fit for public consumption-they wouldn't have had a clue.
"The only way this alcohol could have been bought is off the back of a with a white van man. "The alcohol could not have been bought legitimately," Chris Jones of West Midlands Police was quoted as saying. Maybe they should just drink Yellow Tail. "There were some bottles found in Dudley, and there appear to be bottles found in different parts of the country-some were in the South and some were in the North," he was quoted as saying.Īs such, Trading Standards had advised the Birmingham City Council, "It would appear that this is a large-scale operation, (probably originating abroad) using organized crime gangs in the UK to distribute and sell the products."Īnd yet, though some Brits may wonder if they can trust their bottle of Yellow Tail, the bigger issue appears to be trusting your retailer. According to French newspaper Sud Ouest, Roberts trading company allegedly sold 598 bottles of counterfeit Bordeaux classified growths, including Châteaus Gruaud-Larose, Pichon Longueville Lalande and Beychevelle from June 2017 to March 2018. Maybe they should just drink Yellow Tail.
The Birmingham shop appears to be the U.K.'s most egregious incident thus far however, Martin Williams of Birmingham City Council's Trading Standards team stated it wasn't just a local problem. Looks like the wine counterfeiters are still at large, so if your Yellow Tail bottles have funny-colored liquid in them, best not drink it, and don your detective cap. A once-prominent wine expert was sentenced Thursday to 10 years behind bars for selling tens of millions of dollars in counterfeit vintage wine.
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