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Nearly any type of rare or high-priced item is likely to be copied and pbutted off as the real thing. Expensive watches, fine crystal, expensive perfumes, and paintings are very often copied and pbutted off as real. The Domaine de la Romanee-Conti has had several of their wines copied and pbutted, especially in the far East. They have been using individual bottle numbers for years, so if several bottles with the wrong or same number turn up, that gives them some clue where to look. Scotch was often copied and pbutted in the far East between the two world wars. The 1945 Romanee-Conti is outstanding, quite rare even for Romanee-Conti, and the last great Romanee-Conti before the old vines had to be removed after WWII. There had not been enough chemicals during the war to protect the vines. It was then many years before great Romaiee-Conti was made again. If one wins the lottery, the only somewhat safe way to buy this wine is to do so at auction when a collector dies, and you may have to look for a few years. There should be a complete paper trail from the day the wine was first sold until the present. The wine trade likely has no more of this sort of thing than many other trades. However, there are several new suckers born every minute, so there likely always will be those who are happy to relieve them of some money in any way possible.