Valuing and Insuring a Wine Collection
How to document, value and protect a wine collection: the inventory to keep, three kinds of value, what to ask an insurer and what a buyer wants to see.
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Closing a Holiday Home for the Winter: What to Do With the Wine
A summer house closes in October and opens again in May. For seven months the cellar looks after itself, and that is where good wine is quietly lost: a power…
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How Much Champagne and Wine for a Villa Party? The Planning Figures
A party at the house is where the arithmetic matters most. Too little champagne and the evening runs dry at the moment it should lift; far too much and a case…
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Local Wines Worth Stocking at Your Summer Villa, From Provence to Mykonos
Part of the pleasure of a summer in someone else’s country is drinking what grows there. A villa table with the local wine beside the classics is a better…
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Building a Wine Cellar Into a New-Build Home: What to Decide Before the Walls Go Up
The best time to plan a wine cellar is before the walls go up. Once the plaster is on, a cellar becomes a compromise: a cooling unit with nowhere to vent…
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How to Stock a Holiday Villa for the Week: Quantities, Timing and What to Have Waiting
The car is on its way from the airport, the house is ready and the fridge is cold. What is in it, and what is waiting in the cellar, is decided days earlier…
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Setting Up a Home Wine Cellar: The Practical Checklist
A wine cellar is four numbers and a habit. Get the numbers right, temperature, humidity, light, vibration, and keep the habit of recording what goes in and…
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How to Start a Fine Wine Collection: A Practical Guide
Most advice on starting a wine collection begins with famous labels. Ours begins with a question: what do you actually drink? A cellar built around your table…
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