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Originally Posted by driveway
I've never doubted the authenticity of the scotch. I've had probably thirty or forty different bottles since I've been here and there hasn't been anything about them; either quality of the drink, or packaging, or anything else that's made me question whether I'm drinking the real thing or not.
Given the political situation between the ROC and the PRC it seems as though importing counterfeit goods from the mainland is challenging. There also doesn't appear to be a great deal of counterfeiting that goes on here, at least that's available in Taipei. I hear down south it's a little more like the wild-west, but here pretty much all the fake stuff is hard-goods and restricted to the night-markets.
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That fits what I remember of Taiwan from when I used to live there. Taipei was always fairly reliable. Same with Hong Kong. The fake drink market is huge on the mainland though.
There is literally more bottles of 82 Margaux in China than was ever produced in France and for pretty much any type of import alcohol the estimates on fakes in the market are upwards of 70 percent.
Thing is, most people can't tell the difference.