Sections Search In the World Ferreting Out Faux Bordeaux SHA alum earns national reputation as wine sleuth 06.12.2012 By Patrick L. Kennedy Maureen Downey (SHA’94) manages personal collections of rare and fine wines. She’s become one of the industry’s few authentication experts. Photo courtesy of Maureen Downey When James Grandison forked over about $5,000 for some coveted Bordeaux wine, including a bottle of 1949 Château Lafleur, he was excited about the auction-house find and felt it was worth the splurge. The Berkeley, Calif., theology teacher had started buying $40 bottles of wine in the mid 1990s. “Two years later the value was at $130,” he says. “In the 2000s I ordered wines at $350 a bottle and three years later, when I actually received them in my hands, they were worth $2,000 a bo
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