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But after the first sip, veteran taster Zhao knew the collector had been duped.

"I could tell immediately it was a fake," said Zhao, who kept silent rather than embarrass his unwitting friend. "It was too fresh and soft and didn't have any complexity."

Seizing on exploding demand, China's ever-resourceful knock-off artists have uncorked a lucrative new business: phony high-end wines.

Bootleggers are dousing the market with fakes, refilling empty bottles from famous chateaux with inferior vintages.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,3384950.story

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