Imagine being able to share great wines with your collector friends and make some extra cash to fund your collection at the same time. Direct selling wine is a hot new trend in the wine industry that embraces the home collector as wine sales rep. Think Avon parties, but for wine. WineShop at Home and other…
As wine collectors, should we be spending more time getting educated by our sommeliers? David White discovers more about today’s sommeliers and the ways in which they want to share their knowledge with the incoming wine enthusiasts. He admires how restaurant owner and wine expert, Max Kuller, takes time to teach his staff about the affordable wine…
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…
For someone just starting their wine collection, where to begin is one of the biggest questions. Do you go for wines that will impress? Highly rated wines? Wines that others are collecting? In this great Forbes article Alicia Adamczyk boils is down to the simple truth: Start with wines that mean something to you. She discusses…
This is the first in a two part series on selling all or part of your wine collection. This installment covers choosing the correct avenue for selling your wine. Stay tuned for our next installment as we walk through all the tips and gotchas for rebalancing your collection. Why Sell? As a collector, you may…
Here at Wine Posts, we collect wine for a simple reason: because we enjoy it and like to drink it. Investing in wine is a more dubious process. Yes, first growth Bordeaux and collectible Burgundy has a great history of appreciation, as a quick search on WinePrices will tell you. However, between questionable vintages, ratings misses,…
The Coravin, that revolutionary new wine access tool, is one of our favorite tools for the wine geek. Clearly wine collectors feel the same way as it has been one of our best selling and most requested products. We find ourselves using it nightly and in ways that we never thought imaginable before. Coravin has…
Most serious wine collectors have a pretty decent working knowledge of DRC and its famous wines. However, sometimes it’s fun just to revisit all the little things that you thought you already knew. Wine Searcher has a great article worth reading on random DRC knowledge this week. Here’s a great example from the article:
Foie gras can be the perfect luxury wine pairing for collectors. and it is now possible to enjoy the two together. California just recently lifted the ban on foie gras production. Chefs can now legally sell and serve it in their restaurants, whereas they previously gave it away for free after the 2012 ban when…
As a wine collector, in the United States, one would hope that a better-performing dollar would lead to more bargains for collectible wines. However, as a New York Times article points out today, luxury goods and limited supply does not necessarily mean these savings get passed on to the collector: “The wine producer will increase…
With the combination of a relatively poor global economy, strong US Dollar and what looks to be a pretty good Bordeaux vintage, this could finally be the time for wine collectors to stock up on newly collectible Bordeaux. “While stressing that at this early stage it is impossible to predict prices with any accuracy, Philippe…
As we begin 2015, it’s normally time to see where we can be a little more disciplined in our lives and make some good ‘ol New Year’s Resolutions. For wine collectors the Fall Release and Holiday Seasons can be a time for indulgence, to let things go unattended, including your home cellar situation. And for…
