Guys. I am now inspecting my 2019 Yéllowtail. I’ve determined it’s a fake

This guy has spent more on fake wine than I will earn in my life..

I have no idea why he wouldn't have made sure *before* buying that it wasn't fake if he's going to drop hundreds of thousands on it.

"It brings me great satisfaction" to spend millions on lawsuits against those who fooled you and took advantage of your wealth and ego... the irony.

The koch brothers talking about fraudsters ? CLASSIC

Aww, poor guy. After this wine scam, Mr. Koch is now only worth several billions of dollars.

as soon as I saw this bottle my first question was, "How did they engrave the letters on the bottle in those times?"

O dear, multi billionaires being cheated for their equivalent of pocket cash, how unfortunate.

Fake wines in a fake solid bricks cellar.

Probably this is the closest this billionaire has gotten to being a job creator - he has found employment for counterfeiters and authenticators in this “sad” case of fraud. It is really hard to feel sorry for him.

$35 million to feed his ego is gluttony at its finest.

I recommend watching the film called Sour Grapes. It might be on Netflix.

I almost felt bad for him paying 400k for fake wine until he put 25 millions to go after the guy who sold him the wine. Jesus, that is too much money for 1 person to have available to pay lawyers.

Hahahahaha this guy actually thought those wines were from Thomas Jefferson. He must have been drinking.

I somehow bought a counterfeit bottle of Thunderbird.

to portray that amount of wealth without any shame is mind bending to me.

Rudy was a curse and a blessing at the same time.

What a waste of money! This dude has blown millions on lawsuits that have brought him "great satisfaction." I guess funding a scholarship would not have been as satisfying.

How do you buy a 4.5 million dollar product without verifying its authenticity? Guy walked into it

Hope he realizes soon that he won't be able to drink half of he's collection!!

OMG, is my box of chardonnay a fake?

I once got to taste a beautiful Chardonnay at a Michelin-starred restaurant; it felt like butter, saffron, and sunshine in my mouth, not kidding. So I can understand how a person can form a life-long fascination with wine. But good Lord... unless you’re running a hotel, a restaurant, an heritage preservation organization (dedicated to archiving the world’s best wines, for instance), or a castle with an army of courtiers to impress, a PERSONAL cellar this size and with contents this expensive is... excessive, yes? LOL. You can’t take all of that with you to your death, anyway. (And it opens you up to swindlers.) Reserve only the most precious for special days, and then pare it all down by drinking the rest - hopefully, with your loved ones and friends as you reflect and ponder on the meaning of life in this universe. The world makes wonderful wines each year, and there’s more where that came from. Also, if you’re rich and consume wine regularly (without going overboard), you support an industry that employs thousands of people around the globe.

40 years for faking wine and tricking billionaires, meanwhile murderers get off with a few months or time served sometimes.

Rudy is a champ. No question.

I once spent $500,000 for a map to a silver mine. That turned out to be fake.

I'm rooting for Rudy.

is it bad that i don't feel sorry for them ?

omg I feel so bad for this billionaire

While this is mostly driven by snob appeal, if there was really a fantastic taste to certain wines which have to be experienced, then chemists should be able to take samples, determine the types and ratios of the chemicals contained in them and reproduce them. For the amount of money these people are expending on these wines, it could be done and there would be an endless supply of copies of the really good stuff. Market them as copies and see if the experts can tell the difference in blind taste tests. It might be surprising what they find. That bottle everyone liked, we found it had arsenic contamination.

All that wine if he doesn’t drink it it’s a waste

Victimless crime.

He deserves what he got. How could it not be inspected before he purchased it?

The guy would make a decent King Haggard if the last Unicorn was about wine: "There. There they are! There they are!! They're mine! They belong to me! My Underlings gathered them for me one by one, and I made them bring each one into the cellar! Now they live there..They fill me with joy. The first I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the my men that I must have them, all of them, all there are. For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their stickers. So the they caught them. Each time I see the bottles, my bottles, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself."

Only 40 years of prison? How about 10 x life with extremely hard labor? Plus Christies and or Sotheby banned forever from doing the extremely amateur bad job they do?

Will I be able to drink all of my collection before I die? Collection to the extreme is an addiction.

Damn! And he could have bought a politician with that $$$. Oh well, he'll have to tap his 42 billion for that cause.

The antique wines are a fascinating part of wine industry!

i know how he feels someone once drank my buckfast at a party

Was his experience with fake wines the inspiration for TV series "Sneaky Pete" . . . 🤔

Hey I have a bridge to sell this guy and some magic beans

40 Years??!!!!

He couldn't even buy a good wine corker. Instead he did it with a rusty corker on its last leg and probably contaminated.

I can't believe they drank the fake wine! Might not be safe.

Vechain baby. This need to be on the block chain.

Koch is the type of guy you can sell some oregano too and pass it off as weed

Zero sympathy.

Oh no a billionaire got scammed everybody open your wallets we must repay this man for tragedy

So lawyers getting 25 million to sue someone who made 400,000 dollars and 60 minutes is trying to portray the wine forgers as the criminals??? The only true crime here is a country that would allow such frivolous lawsuits to begin with.

When the expert cheaters get a taste of their own medicine. Boo Hoo!

I really feel bad for the billionaire, i mean what is this world coming to? He spent millions of dollars of wines? How is he going to live?

Spend your money on the wine you can drink with your friends and family. Support living artists, the dead don't need money. Do good with your resources, once you are gone they will stay behind, only the deeds you have done will be remembered.

I feel no sympathy... If you get ripped off on something like this, it's your own fault! I'm a wine collector as well but nowhere near as wealthy as this Koch bro. It's very important to know that you are buying from a reputable dealer or auction house, and at the end of the day you must be master of this trade, and know what to LOOK for when buying such high dollar bottles!

Lol at all these haters here. If you found out your mechanics were ripping you off you would be pissed to. Same concept, larger scale. Save your crocodile tears.

god i cant wait to eat the rich... imma have a plate of this guy paired with a 2017 charles shaw

I'm stunned at the fact that he's so casual about basically burning $4.5m. It's how I would talk about buying a $1 scratch ticket that I lost. Oh well. I'd lose my mind if I bought a bottle of wine for $100 to treat my wife and found out it was a swindle. Maybe that's why I never got into gambling. $100 is the majority of my weekly grocery bill if I exclusively buy items on sale or with coupons. China has zero respect for intellectual property, individuality or uniqueness.

this shows, it pays to do your research before you buy. Loads of money with no idea - fingers will be burnt ! Very sad

I have a rare bottle of 2017 merlot that once belonged to Julius Caesar!

"Shadowy World" eh? Please spare me the drama (yawn). If you want to make sure you're drinking wine that doesn't contain herbicide or pesticide residues, or sulfites or sorbates, make it yourself from fruit you pick in fields, woods, and ditches, and off of neighbors trees and bushes that haven't been sprayed with any chemicals. I read an article recently that said that 95% of California wine was tested to have herbicide and pesticide residues. Even 'organic' wines have those residues if they're made from grapes grown in California. You can buy some really pure wines that are made in Europe (France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, et al) but they're pricey. Cognac and Brandy made by distilling wine don't contain chemical residues even if they're made from California wines.

Monet, Picasso, Miro pictures also a fake? :-)

This guys a billionaire, I feel nothing for the fact that he bought wines worth millions without observing due diligence “As jy dom is, moet jy maar kak!”

Great to be so rich that what upsets you in life is that some of your wine collection might be fake.Thats what happens sometimes.

That's sad, If you spend more that a couple hundred dollars on a bottle of wine then your a fool

Steal from the rich? 40 years in prison.

When you have that kind of money, it shouldn't be difficult to purchase aged wine directly from the French winery cellars. Buy a few cases of the real thing, for less than the auction houses!

Make it yourself from wine juice concentrate. E.C. Kraus and Midwest Supplies are excellent sites

How dare you fool the ultra rich into drinking different aged grape juice, now you will rot in jail for 40 years

Lmaoo booo hoo someone ripped off a billionaire for being a idiot with his money and spending millions and wine instead of something like helping homeless, feeding the poor, opening a school. Frankly I’m proud of this Asian dude! Just shows how much of a waste of money it is to spend THOUSANDS on one bottle of wine.

Amazing the haters on here, because the guy is a billionaire? If the guy was a millionaire would you feel different? How about if he was an average Joe and got ripped off on a $500 bottle of wine because that was his hobby? Who cares if someone is a billionaire or millionaire? Doesn’t change my life either way. By the way, he understands caveat emptor, buyer beware. He admitted that was his responsibility.

A case of too much money. Then again, it is his money. he should be able to spend however nhe wants to spend it.

There are people who collect wine as there are those who collect coins,stamps or porclain,but wine is for drinking and enjoying. Is a bottle of 18th century wine still drinkable? I have never paid more than £35 because I drink every bottle I buy. I could buy more expensive bottles but then how would I feel if I decided I did not like it?

Money doesn't give you knowledge

I just found out this from Internet Historian

What's Hardy Rodenstock's real name and why isn't he prosecuted? Poor Indonesian guy.

More is never enough for some

He could have bought a lot tiny houses

Good, that's what happens when you place the value not on quality n taste but on names and clout

Only the 6 is squished in the 1961 bottle by reinserting the cork??? Is she a fake???

THAT MARCUS BUST IS SIIICKKK

one reason I never would spend more than 100 Dollars on a bottle of whine, you surely make a clown out of yourself, all credit to Rudy, who fooled the rich and dumb

From now on - i will drink only from produce

any give aways ??

Very Nice Drink Red wine

What makes these wines better? Can these people tell the difference? I'm talking taste wise

Hard to feel sorry for wine snobs.

I bet 50 percent of his paintings are fake as well ?

Bill Koch is a good humored _dumb_ guy, actually. He just has a damn lot of money.

these fraudsters are "conscientious". they will never con me. cos i can offer no other than humble table wine.

9:06 ... and started drinking!

Wow, that chick has had work done. I barely recognized her.

just buy only wines protected with the Acatena system and get peace of mind. Even the old prooftag system is better than nothing!

Its hard to feel bad for Koch...he's obviously got more money than sense.

Tamper proof until it's tampered with. Why do I not fell sorry for Kock.

A fool and his money are soon parted, do I feel sorry for him, no not at all, if your forking out that sort of money on wine you can afford the knocks, perhaps you might donate to me a bottle of Petrus its only €3000 now !

Rich people deserve to get ripped off to be fair. Just buy Four Loko

LOL Thats what he gets! REALLY spending that much on old a@$ wine.

Rich people problems

He feels violated? that's a really strange thing to say.

Bit excessive on the wine

“I know... "

Lottery tickets are society’s tax to the poor, I guess this is the equivalent for the rich.