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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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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Inside Our Allocation Network: How We Source Rare Wines
"Can you get it?" is the question our phone exists to answer. A 1982 left-bank for a 40th birthday. The Champagne a couple drank at their wedding, in magnum…
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En Primeur vs Buying In-Stock: What Collectors Should Know
Every spring, the Bordeaux machine offers you next year's wine at this year's price, en primeur, wine as a future. It is part of collecting folklore, and for…
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Wine Provenance and Storage: Why It Matters More Than the Label
Two bottles of the same wine, same vintage, same producer. One is worth full market price. The other is worth a fraction, and the difference is invisible on…
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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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