STEP 4: CHECK THEIR REPUTATION AND THEIR CLIENT REFERENCES At this point, you should only have three to five finalists left, for two spots. Now it’s time to dig into the details of their business. A good broker should be able to give
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How to Select a Broker Part III: Checking Prices
STEP 3: CHECK THEIR PRICESAs you are checking the price trends of the wines your potential wine brokers recommend, you should also be checking the actual prices they are quoting you. As you look up every wine on their lists on Wine Searcher and
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
What Makes a Good Wine Broker?
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