Breaking: Wine Spectator just unveiled their top 10 wines of 2017, and as with previous years, American wines dominate, representing five of the ten selections. Out of the remaining selections, four are French and one is Italian, relegatin
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How to Select a Broker Part II: Testing Their Skills
STEP 2: TEST THEM TO ASSESS THEIR SKILLSMost wine brokers you come across will pass Step 1, having experience. If they don’t, remove them from consideration immediately. But once you’ve found five to ten wine brokers who have experience, and th
How to Select a Broker Part I: Checking Experience
We have been in the wine business all our adult lives, and we know, at least by reputation, all of the major wine brokers in the country. When friends come to us and ask how to find and select a wine broker to work with, this is how we recommend that
Baby Boomers, Mortality, and the Wine Market
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
Case Study: Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2000
Summer 2017 Wine Market Report, Part 4: Bordeaux
In 2016, investors and collectors seemed to turn their attention more to Bordeaux's Super Seconds than the great First Growths, but in the first half of 2017, there was a surge of renewed interest in the latter category. During that period, Fir
Summer 2017 Wine Market Report, Part 3: The Rhone Valley
Somewhat counterintuitively, the wines of the Rhone Valley were the top performers in the first half of 2017 after Burgundy and California Cults, surpassing the advances of First Growth Bordeaux and several other indices. Generally speaking, the
Summer 2017 Wine Market Report, Part 1: Grand Cru Burgundy & DRC
Welcome to the first entry in our new series on the current state of the wine investment market. According to the most recent auction summaries, the first and second quarters of 2017 witnessed a strengthening of the wine market across all major