Wine bottle recycling in consumer, restaurant, recycler triangle relations

A maotai empty bottle can be sold for one or two hundred yuan. If the vintage is old, it may even amount to several thousand yuan. The bottle is more expensive than regular wine. This is no joke!

Reporters found in a large online store, high-end bottle price is not cheap. Take Maotai as an example, Moutai "rich million years" bottle 30 yuan / month; Flying Maotai bottle 150 yuan / month. The seller named “fashion-decoration” has sold 25 Maotai “Fujian Wannian” bottles in 30 days.

Why these empty bottles of waste in the eyes of outsiders are selling at a high price, and eventually they have flown to where the reporter found that, except for a small number of enthusiasts, many have entered the fake wine market. The process is roughly as follows: high-priced recycling of real-name bottles, loaded with cheap liquor, transformed into a thousand dollars worth of high-end wine.

Restaurant carefully

Bottle-holders admit to receiving bottles of fake wine

Liu Wenqiang said that as long as there are bottles, no need to sell. After his introduction, the reporter, as a hotel catering manager, had contact with Zhang, who specialized in the recycling of famous bottles. When the reporter stated that he had some Maotai and Wuliangye empty bottles for sale, the other party was very vigilant at first, and repeatedly asked who the reporter was and where he got his number. When the reporter stated that he was a friend, the other party did not hang up. "I can honestly tell you that the bottles are used to fill fake wine." He said he only recycled bottles, earning a difference, did not dare to fill fake wine. "Shangjia" will regularly find him to buy. When talking about the specific recovery price, Zhang insisted on seeing the goods and then talk about the price, but to ensure that "absolutely let you satisfied."

It is understood that this Municipality prohibits the acquisition of manhole covers, iron shovels, traffic barriers, and communication cables. Is recycling of empty bottles expensive? Cao Yufang, a lawyer of Beijing Fengrui Law Firm, believes that the current law does not have such a ban. However, due to the high liquidity of the recycling population, it is difficult for the regulatory authorities to accurately grasp the flow of empty bottles, which is not conducive to law enforcement agencies investigating and collecting evidence.

Open wine for sale only

“Upscale bottles can sell well, which has long been an open secret for the industry.” Liu Wenqiang (a pseudonym), who had previously worked as a catering manager for a large restaurant in the city, described the inside story behind the high-priced bottle. Liu Wenqiang said that general liquor bottles and beer bottles can only be disposed of as waste products. The real value of money is the name of the bottle. However, if it is slightly damaged, the price will be greatly reduced or even worthless. With the recent increase in the price of wine, the price of wine bottles also rose, even more than the former.

Liu Wenqiang reminded reporters to patronize the restaurant to pay more attention to the waiter's actions when they start high-end liquor. “They will be very careful, and inadvertently take empty bottles after the guests finish drinking.” He revealed that the empty bottles they collected every day in the hotel they worked in were between 30 and 40, and as many as hundreds. One. Therefore, he often reminds the waiter that he must be careful when opening the bottle to minimize the damage to the bottle and the outer packaging so as not to affect the selling price.

Maotai bottled cheap wine

Wine seller called hidden rules

Maotai and other high-grade wine bottles were recovered and then sold into Jinliufu for sale. Chen, who had once been a liquor salesman, was tried in Fengtai Court yesterday for the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks. "My approach is unspoken rules in the industry." Chen said in court.

Prosecutors alleged that from the end of 2009 to December last year, Chen recovered Kweichow Moutai, Wuliangye, Jiannanchun, Guojiao 1573 wine bottles and packaging, and then poured in Jinliufu, Guobao, Mianzhu wine sales. When Chen was arrested, the public security agency obtained 679 bottles of white wine on the spot and was appraised by the Fengtai District Price Certification Center with a value of 347,000 yuan.

Chen pleaded guilty in court. "I'm just selling Maotai with low-grade wine and not selling dead people. I'm not a bad guy. Really." In order to convince the judge, Chen repeated it three times. "You can't see fakes from the outside, but you can't really understand the price. This is the unspoken rules of the wine industry." Chen said.

Anti-fraud has consumers "to force"

According to Liu Wenqiang, the former "false bottled fake wine" has now been upgraded to "real bottled fake wine." This kind of counterfeiting and counterfeiting has little investment, high profits, and more importantly, it is difficult to identify. According to reports, the authority can theoretically verify whether there is a crack at the seal of the wine bottle and whether the anti-counterfeiting mark is a second paste to verify the authenticity during the inspection. However, the actual operation is difficult.

An insider said: “In order to make false senses, there is a lot of emphasis on counterfeit wine. One of the rules is that the wine that is filled into the empty bottle must be blended with the same brand of wine to ensure that the flavor is similar. Realistic, drinkable consumers simply can't tell the truth.”

"To eliminate hidden dangers of fake wine, in addition to relying on quality supervision, industry and commerce departments to step up efforts to crack down, after the customer drinks, taking the bottle away or damage is a useful and effortless method."