Jan. 31 - Feb. 28, 2013 Issue
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How To
Tips on getting your wine collection from here to there
Posted: February 28, 2013 By Peter D. Meltzer
Jan. 31 - Feb. 28, 2013 Issue
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Features
Tips on getting your wine collection from here to there
Posted: February 28, 2013 By Peter D. Meltzer
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: February 25, 2013
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: February 20, 2013
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: February 15, 2013
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: February 6, 2013
Collecting
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Collecting News
Country’s premier charity wine auction offers unique lots, but bidding is subdued
Posted: January 28, 2013 By Lizzie Munro
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: January 23, 2013
News & Features
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Drinking Out Loud
If so, where's the action?
Posted: January 22, 2013 By Matt Kramer
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: January 18, 2013
Collecting
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Collecting News
Federal judge rules that FBI had probable cause to search defendant's home; trial could be scheduled at a hearing next month
Posted: January 17, 2013 By Peter Hellman
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: January 16, 2013
Collecting
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Collecting News
Market diversifies as Bordeaux prices drop
Posted: January 15, 2013 By Peter D. Meltzer
Blogs
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Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
What do winemakers think when collectors resell their wines for big profits? And how do collectors end up going from mailing list to blacklist?
Posted: January 15, 2013 By Robert Taylor
Wine is a funny commodity. As with fine art, a smart investor with a sharp eye, a secure cellar and a little luck could buy a few cases of wine today that, 20 years from now, might pay for their child's college tuition. (Unlike fine art, wine has to be destroyed to be appreciated.)
But for a select few wineries around the world, their bottles tend to double or triple in value as soon as they leave the cellar door, no investor patience required. That group expands and contracts depending on the latest wine ratings, the economy and vintners' efforts to keep release prices in line with demand without overstepping the bounds of fiscal good taste—bounds that are leapt across with abandon when so-called "flippers" resell their allocations to wealthy wine lovers who are happy to pay through the nose for highly rated hard-to-find wines. Like it or not, flip happens.
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: January 14, 2013
Blogs
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Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
Wary vintners are increasingly picky about who deserves a spot on the mailing list, and who's just in it for the money
Posted: January 10, 2013 By Robert Taylor
How much would you pay for a bottle of California Sauvignon Blanc?
The only wine from that category to ever earn a classic rating, the 2007 Merry Edwards Russian River Valley (96 points), cost $29, and the current vintage, 2011, is $30. So would you pay more than 8 times that for a bottle of Screaming Eagle Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley? No? Well what if I told you that you could immediately turn around and re-sell it for 10 times that price? (That's more than $2,500 for a single bottle of Napa Sauvignon Blanc, for those still trying to do the math, at a profit of $2,250 per bottle.)
Some list members sold their wines, and a few months later, there were some angry people who had been kicked off the mailing list.
Collecting
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Collecting News
U.S. market for fine wines may have stopped its prolonged slide
Posted: January 10, 2013 By Peter D. Meltzer
Learn Wine
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Ask Dr. Vinny
Posted: January 9, 2013
News & Features
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Drinking Out Loud
Wines have changed and so have our palates
Posted: January 8, 2013 By Matt Kramer
Dec. 31, 2012 - Jan. 15, 2013 Issue
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Features
Globe-trotting sommelier has a home base in San Francisco for entertaining
Posted: December 31, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
