Wine scam busted in Italy

Last week, Italian police foiled a plot to flood the wine market with more than 220,000 counterfeit bottles of Tuscany’s Brunello di Montalcino. The fraud is considered the biggest ever carried out in the agricultural and food sector, according to police chief Luca Albertario. In the scam, lower quality wine was sold with fake labels. Had the plot succeeded, the fake wines would have wound up on the tables of half the restaurants in the world. Read the full story via The Huffington Post.