Soon the young prodigy was christened with a nickname by the members of wine’s shadowy underbelly: Dr. Conti. Of course at the time no one knew Dr. Conti was in fact pulling off the most ...

What's unclear is what the man once known in wine collecting circles as Dr. Conti will do next. Kurniawan, 44, an Indonesian of Chinese ancestry, arrived in California in the early 1990s to study ...

Other collectors dubbed him “Dr. Conti” for his love of a Burgundy wine, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.In one auction in 2006, Kurniawan sold $24.7 million of wine, a record for a single ...

Kurniawan surfaced in rare wine circles around 2003 and quickly became a fixture at tastings and auctions, known for his passion for Burgundy and a talent for sniffing out fakes. Fellow collectors ...

"The Cellar of William I. Koch: The Great American Collector," billed by the auction house as "one of the greatest ...

Baghera/wines is pleased to announce, “Kipling #11 – Yours Truly,” an auction devoted to the wines of Domaine de la ...

Other collectors dubbed him “Dr. Conti” for his love of a Burgundy wine, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.In one auction in 2006, Kurniawan sold $24.7 million of wine, a record for a single ...