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by Peter May » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:29 am
Reason to check the cork in restaurants dates from days when someplaces filled up the used expensive bottles with plonk and resold them.
Those days are back - in China at least
China's booming wine market has created an astounding demand for empty bottles of famous wines, with fraudsters paying up to £300 for a good bottle Story in todays Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink ... China.html
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by Tom Troiano » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:38 am
Back in the day over 75% of all software in China was pirated. Sounds like they found a new opportunity.
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