Michèle Shah (decanter.com) writes:
The equivalent of over 9m bottles of Chianti Classico? has been seized by Italian authorities from top Tuscan estates including Ruffino as part of a fraud inquiry.
Ruffino is one of the main estates involuntarily involved in the massive police sequestration which totals some 70,000h/l (hectolitres) of Chianti Classico DOCG?.
Piero Conticelli, owner of Cavico, a company based outside Florence, is accused of defrauding other Chianti Classico producers by selling vast quantities of wine purporting to be Chianti Classico produced outside the DOCG denomination between the years 2001-2004.
Glad to see that the newly reformed Consorzio Chianti Classico isn't resting on its laurels.
Update: The Wine Offensive's take on the topic. Succinct as always.