(Pressdemocrat) - When you buy a bottle of a famed wine, you take it on faith that it’s genuine and not a fake. In fact, fake wine is precisely why corks began to be branded with the name of a winery (as well as the vintage date), and why most reputable wines still use branded corks. It may be possible to print up false labels, but hard to counterfeit corks with the proper logo. When you order a bottle of fine wine in a restaurant and the sommelier hands you the cork, the primary reason is so you can inspect it and see if the brand is the same one on the label. If you order a bottle of Chateau Palmer and the cork is blank, that alone is sufficient grounds for rejecting the wine.