The growing fraud case of Reserva de la Tierra

As I reported in my article for Decanter last week, there’s currently a breaking story of massive wine fraud unfolding in Southern Catalunya. The perpetrator is alleged to be the company, “Reserva de la Tierra” in les Borges del Camp, a medium-sized village just west of Reus in Tarragona province. The charges and investigation center upon this company forging the certification of wines under the Tarragona Denominations of Origin bodies (DOs) of: Priorat, Montsant, and Terra Alta. The back labels on the wines not only don’t match records of these […]