Peter Hellman, a New York-based journalist and author for more than 40 years, has been a contributor to Wine Spectator for more than a decade. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, and many others. His books include When Courage Was Stronger than Fear, Chief!, and Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese. He and his wife, Susan, live in New York City.
"2017 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
"An engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery . . . Hellman
clearly knows his stuff."
*The Wall Street Journal*
"Heady, intoxicating . . . shines a light on the esoteric and
intriguing world of ultrarare, ultrafine wines."
*Foreword, starred review*
"In Vino Duplicitas is a cautionary tale of how we can let the
romance of wine get the better of us. Kurniawan preyed on rich
collectors, but most vinophiliacs have experienced the seductive
lure of a rare or expensive bottle of wine. None of us are
immune."
*Washington Post*
"Hellman, a veteran journalist who covered [Kurniawan’s] case,
allows the story to unfold with spare prose. He presents, without
overt judgment, the macho, competitive, one-upmanship world of the
collectors, an atmosphere that perhaps contributed to their
gullibility in the high-rolling economy of the early 2000s."
*The New York Times*
"[A] compelling mix of wine devotion (journalist Hellman’s
included) and true crime (complete with avenging furies, from a
bloody-minded Koch brother to a passionate French vintner)."
*Maclean’s*
"A deep dive into the culture that nurtured Kurniawan, and the
forces that destroyed him."
*Wine Spectator*
"Like Law & Order for oenophiles, In Vino Duplicitas is a true
crime account set among the cognoscenti of the wine world."
*Imbibe*
"Journalist Peter Hellman spent years following the strange saga of
Rudy Kurniawan, who in 2013 was sentenced to 10 years in prison for
selling untold millions of dollars in fake rare vintages. Hellman
tells the phenomenal story of the mysterious fraudster in In Vino
Duplicitas."
*Wine Enthusiast*
"A captivating story . . . Hellman’s voice is that of the amused
but compassionate observer. He saves his disdain for those who
seemed to have colluded in the scam, the auctioneers and rich
collectors so eager for economic gain and status that they
willfully ignored the evidence in front of them. By definition,
rare wines are in finite supply. It is perhaps this underlying
matter of motivation that does most to deepen the satisfaction of
this well-told story."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"In Vino Duplicitas is a fast-paced and suspenseful real-life
thriller brimming with rich, vivid detail."
*Apple’s iBooks Best Book of July*
"[An] absorbing account of true crime in high society."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Well written and carefully researched."
*The Journal of Wine Economics*
"Peter Hellman led the way in reporting on Rudy Kurniawan’s
monumental fraud, and he has written the book it deserves:
tenaciously researched, propulsively told, and infused with earned
wisdom about the wine world. I found it hard to put In Vino
Duplicitas"
*Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar*
"A page-turning cautionary tale about the elite world of wine, and
a gripping and disturbing read. You won’t be able to put it
down."
*Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Tangled Vines*
"The best account of fraudster Rudy Kurniawan to date. Riveting,
deftly-researched, entertaining, it’s a page-turner that reveals
all sorts of new details about the largest wine fraud in
history."
*Mark Oldman, author of How to Drink Like a Billionaire*
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