Clos St Denis Laurent Ponsot 1945 – I don't think so

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Back in November when we lunched with Laurent Ponsot he was, unsurprisingly, very exercised about a collection of fake Ponsot bottles entered for auction with Acker, Merrall & Condit in New York earlier in the year. It seems that, in spite of turning detective, he is still far from solving the mystery.

Jancis Robinson tells the whole story in last week’s Saturday FT – A vintner determined to stamp out wine fraud.