It’s the beard, stupid
Some fakes are easier to spot than others: ‘When St Peter begins to look like Osama bin Laden on a bottle of Pétrus, you know it’s not the real McCoy. But others are so good that even the producers cannot make 100% statements about authenticity. This is not an exact science….
Maureen Downey, expert in vervalsingen, op decanter.com. (‘The real McCoy’ is een Engelse uitdrukking, synoniem voor ‘the real thing’.)