Who We Are: With over 30 years of combined industry experience and unparalleled access to market data, Estate Wine Brokers is the team that can help you organize fine wine into an alternative investment asset class that suits your lifestyle and f

The 2017 harvest is already underway in many of the world’s great wine regions, and here’s what we’ve learned so far:Napa Valley: After four consecutive years of drought, an unusually wet winter ensured that groundwater resources were recharged at th

At a basic level, a wine broker is someone who acts as a middleman between people selling fine (or rare) wine and people looking to buy fine wine. There are many wine brokers, but not many good ones, and it is crucial that you work with only with goo

If you want to use wine as an investment, the realistic amount that you should be starting with is no less than $10,000 a year. That’s the bare minimum. Most people invest more. For example, the majority of our clients at Estate Wine Brokers put $25,

On the surface, buying wine wine as an investment—as one would with real estate or a mutual fund—seems odd to many people. After all, wine is made for consumption, it has a limited shelflife, and it’s so fragile that it needs to be stored correctly

As wine collectors advance in age, many individuals elect to liquidate all or part of their cellars for a variety of reasons. For many collectors, taste preferences change over time, and the financial reward of selling certain bottles eventually out

Bad news for wine investors and collectors across the United States: UPS and FedEx are cracking down on the interstate shipment of wine, restricting the number of states in which many purveyors of hard-to-find, limited-production wines can do busines

At Estate Wine Brokers, it is our policy to inspect each and every bottle we sell to ensure the provenance and condition of our wines. In our inspection process, special attention is paid to the following items:1.  Ullage/Fill Level - Is t

Even in the wake of the high-profile conviction and imprisonment of notorious counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan, wine fraud remains a problem in the marketplace. Below is a list of eight ways to determine the authenticity of a particular bottle of wine:1

Bonneau du Martray is an historic estate based in the commune of Pernand-Vergelesses in the Cote de Beaune that is exclusively dedicated to the production of the Grand Crus Corton-Charlemagne and Le Corton.  The estate has an outstandi