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Auction Price Database

What's your wine worth? Search our complete auction database, which tracks prices and performance for more than 12,000 of the world's most collectible and cellar-worthy wines.

Wine Spectator's Auction Index: Learn how we track the market

• Biggest gainer in the past quarter: Château Lynch-Bages Pauillac 2000, 750 ml.
Auction Highlights

Our detailed look at commercial sales. Discover how notable wines fared against their average prices.

New: Aulden Cellars-Sotheby's, Nov. 14, 2009
Buying Opportunities

We tip you off to undervalued and over-performing collectible wines at auction.

Values on the Block
Selected Values at the Acker Merrall & Condit Sept. 9th, 2009 Sale

Auction News

Analysis of market trends and developments, plus reports on noteworthy benefit auctions.

New: Prices Up 20 Percent at the 149th Hospices de Beaune Auction
Auction Calendar

Keep up to date with our listing of upcoming commercial and benefit wine auctions. Plus contact info for auction houses.
Auction Houses (Classifieds)

Want to sell or buy collectible wines? Find fine-wine auction houses.
Collecting Q & A

Auction correspondent Peter D. Meltzer answers your questions about buying and cellaring.

New: Will it harm wine to be stored at a temperature colder than 55 degrees?
How to: Start a Cellar

Started laying down a few bottles to age? Learn how to build a cellar and build up a collection. Plus, collectors share how they built cellars for their tastes and needs.
Drink Now, Hold or Past Peak?

Find out how mature wines are aging, as our editors look back at them in retrospective and vertical tastings or share their personal notes.

New: Retrospective: 1998 California Cabernets
Collecting & Auctions Newsletter

A new collectible wine pick, plus expert tips on collecting and more, in each biweekly edition of our free e-mail newsletter. View a sample or sign up.
Wine Storage (Classifieds)

Solutions for all your wine-storage needs, from racks and coolers to home cellars to off-site facilities.
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