In December of 2022, community-centered wine brand, Winey Art Club, equipped their wine bottles with vinID technology to support their goals to educate their customers on the winemaking process,...
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Wine Forgery – Fake Lafite and Penfolds discovered
Wine Forgery is an issue at all price points - starting with Yellow Tail going all the way to high-end unicorn bottles Three warehouses in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province were recently raided by...
Fighting Wine Forgery: An Interview with Sebastian Schier, MD of vinID
Thanks to Palate Magazine (follow them on Instagram or Twitter), for interviewing about my view on wine forgery and the digital transformation in the wine industry. Enjoy...
Are you sure that your “Grand Cru Wine” is real?
Thanks to Forkast (follow them on LinkedIN or Twitter), for inviting me to write about my view on the digital transformation in the wine industry. Enjoy reading it. The wine industry...
Wine fraud – How NFTs are helping
NFTs are more than digital artwork. Read on Bourbon And Boots how we use NFTs to fight wine fraud and transform bottles into a smart communication channel. Customers simply tap the bottle with their...
vinID calling – large scale fraud in Bordeaux
vinID solves real world challenges Eleven people, including the owner of a Médoc château and several wine merchants, were arrested last week on suspicion of fraud. Nine other people were questioned....
NFTs and their Future in Wine
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux has published a comprehensive article about NFTs and their future in wine. Vintners are set to benefit the most. vinID is prominently featured Excellent NFT weekend...
Tokenization of Wine – Enabling an Extended Consumer Experience
While tokenization of assets such as wine is still in an early stage of its development, it is already of increasing economic importance. Michael Paul Kramer, Jochen Heussner and Prof. Dr. Jon H....
Kloster Eberbach introduces vinID tags – auction wines sealed with Blockchain technology
Wines have been auctioned at Kloster Eberbach (Monastery) since 1806. This long tradition was already brought into a new age last year. Due to the Corona crisis, the "wet auction" was not held as a...
VDP – Blockchain-based Tech Meets Fine Wine
VDP is adopting NFTs From Meininger: "Readers of last week’s Meininger’s articles on NFTs may be interested to learn that the new technology has been adopted by the VDP, the association that brings...
Enable your customers to check authenticity!
Chinese police has recently busted a substantial fake wine operation in Jiangsu province. They confiscated over 8'000 fake Penfolds bottles making it the second substantial success after police...
For a good cause – Record bid of 31,500 euros at VDP.Rheingau wine auction
This is a translation of the original press release from Kloster Eberbach. A total of 3'619 bottles went under the hammer with a total net result of 305,768 euros. A gigantic conclusion formed lot...
VDP.Rheingau x vinID – prestigious wine auction since 1806
vinID will seal all bottles of the prestigious wine auction of VDP.Rheingau with vinID NFC tags. The non-removable tags are dynamically encrypted and positioned at the top of every bottle...
NFTs – Let’s get physical
Global NFT (non-fungible token) sales are setting new highs. In 2021 they reached nearly USD 25 billion after totalling only around USD 100 million the year before. What is an NFT? An NFT is a smart...
Spotlight China: 13,000 cases of counterfeit Bordeaux wines – One of the biggest worth nearly USD 50 million
As reported by Vino Joy, a wedding banquet in China’s eastern Shandong province has led police to uncover the biggest counterfeit Bordeaux wine case in China. An elaborate web of deception that...