Million-Dollar Wine Fraud

Your prestigious wine merchant business faces catastrophe as billionaire collector Victoria Shaw threatens a $12M lawsuit over suspected fake vintages. With just hours before her lawyers arrive, you must authenticate your most valuable bottles while navigating a complex web of suppliers, certificates, and decades-old providence records. Your reputation and livelihood hang by a thread.

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B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Owner of Shaw & Merit Fine Wines

Conversation Partner

Victoria Shaw - Elite Wine Collector

Setting

Your private wine cellar office - walls of dark wood and glass-encased bottles, a single overhead lamp casting shadows across your authentication documents

Location

Underground Cellar, Merit Wine Merchants, Manhattan

Learning Objectives

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Locate and present original purchase documentation from the 1982 Christie's auction

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Demonstrate unbroken chain of custody through certified temperature-controlled transport

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Verify cork and bottle authenticity through detailed photographic evidence

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Present matching provenance certificates from both European and American authorities

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“I've just had your 1947 Cheval Blanc authenticated by Nicolas Marceau in Bordeaux. Care to explain why the cork shows modern fabrication marks? You have exactly one chance to prove you're not running a multi-million dollar counterfeit operation.”

This is how Victoria Shaw - Elite Wine Collector's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#265

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