I remember on one of those real crime TV shows a guy was putting fake labels on inexpensive bottles. Maybe fake bottles too, not sure.
The surprising thing is no one noticed for a long time. Finally some guy did.
No photo of William “Billy” Holder, just a generic picture of bottles of wine in a rack. Hmm. Anne Arundel county.
We will steal no wine
Before its time
You don’t get to keep stolen goods. Even if you purchased them in good faith. Ask any Pawn Store owner. Is there more to this story?
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“Laubach also wrote on Wine Berserkers: “The maddening thing is that there is a very prominent store in DC that admitted to me and my brother that he had bought our wines from Mr Holder. His resolution was to sell them back to us at his cost.”
Lived in Glen Burnie back in ‘81................Moved to Florida and never looked back.................
Mmmm… Baltimore wines...
If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.
Oh phleese.
Trusting stranger with your booze?
Jail his customers for being a-holes.
And sterilize them, to protect the innocent.
rich people problems....
If you’re involved in collecting wine and you just can’t seem to find a place to store it, don’t let others take your wine into their own hands....You store it yourself!!!!!
We have a refrigerator n our house.
Unfortunately, we have young families and are not in the position to replace the wine. We are officially out of the wine collecting business."
I enjoy wine, and I like to visit wineries whenever I'm traveling. As a gift, my wife bought me a 40+ bottle wine refrigerator during our kitchen remodel.
Having said that, I could never see myself collecting wine to the point where I'd have 100 bottles, let alone 750. A wine collecting "business" should only be tried with money you can afford to lose.
I learned my lesson about making money in collectibles a long time ago, when my mom tossed out my baseball cards. FWIW, I had complete Topps sets from 64-68.
I understand that back in the Middle Ages, people stored their gold with goldsmiths, as they had secure storage. They got a receipt in return. Soon, the receipts themselves were used as “money”.
Some goldsmiths realized that many patrons never redeemed their gold, so began issuing extra “receipts” and pocketed the difference. Those who were discovered were executed, but later on, someone in the government said, “Now THERE’s an idea!” and the rest is history.
Holder simply sold wine that customers had stored with him.
Sounds like your average everyday Banker.
Buncha winers.
"Well, nutria is a kind of grape."
"No, it's a kind of rat."
He replaced some of the cases with cheap bottles of wine.
"Well, nutria is a kind of grape."
"No, it's a kind of rat."
"It's a rat wine."
"And a poorly made one, even by rat wine standards."
In the future, please refrain from posting chat material in the news forum.