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"  Recent years have seen quite a boom for French wines in China. Les Vins Francais, particularly from Bordeaux, are being snatched up at an ever-growing pace. This is great news for the French who have seen a sixty percent growth by volume and one hundred percent by value last year. China is becoming the biggest Bordeaux market outside of Europe. But this opens up opportunities in another industry: wine fraud. More from Delish: The Basics of Bordeaux Wine Counterfeit wines are a threat to any market where high-end bottles are prized. There are many ways to counterfeit a bottle. The simplest is to take an empty bottle from a desired vintage and producer, fill it with cheap wine and cork it back up. Since many collectors that purchase old Bordeaux&amp;#039;s at auction buy them to cellar rather than consume immediately there is little risk the layman detecting any fraud. Of course, sorting through your neighbor&amp;#039;s recycling isn&amp;#039;t going to result in many empty bottles of Chateau Margaux. Empty prized bottles are finding a market of their own. Simon Tam, the founder of Hong Kong&amp;#039;s Independent Wine Centre, has told the local press that friends of his had been offered as much as HK$10,000 (about $1,300) for an empty bottle of 1982 Chateau Lafite. Counterfeit bottles can fetch HK$40,000 ($4,800) on the market, which is a deal as the usual price for a bottle from a famed Chateau is around HK$100,000 ($12,000) proving that a there really is no such thing as a good deal. More from Delish: How to Read Wine Labels Precautions are being taken to try to avoid wine fraud from negatively affecting the burgeoning and expanding French wine market. Wine buyers have been warned to examine the bottles carefully - especially if it is being sold as a particularly good price. Some waiters have been instructed to smash expensive bottles after they have been emptied to avoid any risk of counterfeit. So be warned. If you&amp;#039;re purchasing a Petrus in the streets of Hong Kong check the seal. But go ahead and buy that &amp;quot;Rolox.&amp;quot; It looks just like the real thing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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