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Wine adulteration

Wine adulteration (colloquially known as panning or panting, also known as wine manipulation or wine adulteration) refers to incorrect manipulations in winemaking that deliberately violate wine law and are carried out with deceptive or fraudulent intent. The aim is to "improve" the flavour or quality by means of prohibited additives and thus falsely simulate a certain or better quality, to stretch the quantities of high-quality wines by mixing them with simple, cheaply produced bulk wine or simply with water, and to market wines under prestigious names or vintages by means of false labelling using genuine labels and/or bottles.

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