Cheap wine in expensive bottles – it’s one illegal way that counterfeit wine sales are taking place. A fraudster perfectly packages cheap imitation wine into the bottle of an expensive wine with all the packaging and labeling intact. A consumer wouldn’t know, and wine sellers were hard pressed to obstruct such fraud.
Thanks to RFID technology, things are changing, and such fraud is much more difficult. An RFID capsule may be fitted over the corked or capped wine bottle. The capsule contains a unique identification number to authenticate the bottle of wine. It uniquely identifies the bottle to the wine and ensures the bottle has not been tampered with and the product is genuine.