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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 10,000 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 Margaux Margaux Pavillon Rouge 2008, 750 ml.

Auction Highlights

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

New: Hart Davis Hart, Feb. 2, 2013

How to: Buy and Sell Wine at Auction

Buying and selling wine at live auctions can be fun, nerve-wracking and a good investment. Get insider tips from auction experts and watch our video.

Auction News

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

New: Naples Winter Wine Festival Raises $8.5 Million

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: What is the difference between Moulin des Carruades and Carruades de Lafite?

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 details of their personal cellars.

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: Is This Really a Golden Age for Wine?

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.