MENTIONED IN THIS POST: –Abreu –Domaine de la Romanee Conti –Screaming Eagle About a decade ago, my teenage cousin got caught breaking into his father’s wine cellar. My cousin had decided to steal just one bottle, thinking my uncle wouldn’t notice. But he made a serious mistake when he carried out his heist: he took…
Collectible wine tends to stay on the market for a very long time and that makes it exceptionally difficult to deal with issues of wine fraud. Nick Bartman has proposed an interesting idea for fighting fraud in an article at JancisRobinson.com. In the article, he proposes leaving a physical imprint on each wine bottle that is…
The holidays have arrived and it’s that time of the year when you have to start thinking about gift giving. Still don’t know what to give your friend that’s a wine lover or collector? Here are some great suggestions to get you started. A BOTTLE MATCHED PERFECTLY TO THE COLLECTOR As a wine gift, there’s nothing like…
Digital Provenance: How Wine Bottles Will Be Tracked Using Bitcoin Introduction Bitcoin is going to revolutionize the way that wine provenance is understood in the digital age. Imagine a world in which you hold ownership of both a physical bottle of wine and a unique digital record that verifies exactly who owned the bottle of…
A lot of things go into collecting wine. Beautiful cellars with dramatic show cases, cunning social jiu-jitsu that lands you on that exclusive distribution list, fun social events comparing wine knowledge with a fellow collector. But one of the more mundane elements is individually identifying every bottle in your collection. Each bottle is truly unique and takes…