(Reuters) - The convicted Indonesian wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan on Monday failed to persuade a U.S. judge to set aside his 10-year prison term for counterfeiting an estimated $30 million of wine.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman rejected Kurniawan's argument that his trial lawyers represented him ineffectively by failing to demand hearings to suppress evidence discovered when Kurniawan, 40, was arrested at his home in Arcadia, California.

The Manhattan judge said he would not second-guess the lawyers' "strategic decision" not to demand hearings, and that holding them would not have mattered because authorities had probable cause to believe Kurniawan was selling "rare and expensive" counterfeit Burgundy wines at auction.

When Kurniawan was arrested on March 8, 2012, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents observed crates and wine bottles stacked 15 feet (4.5 m) high near the front door of his home, in plain view. Prosecutors have said Kurniawan mixed some of his fake wine in his kitchen.

Kurniawan was in his 20s when he began attracting notice for his wine tastes, and was dubbed "Dr. Conti" over his penchant for Burgundy wine, including from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.