News & Features
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Unfiltered
Plus, wine in space, cycling's Jonathan Vaughters celebrates a Giro d'Italia win and more Girl Scout honorees
Posted: May 31, 2012
April 30, 2012 Issue
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News
Naples Festival helps push yearly total up 16 percent
Posted: April 30, 2012 By Lizzie Munro
Collecting
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Collecting News
California and Burgundy collectibles make inroads in popularity
Posted: April 12, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
March 31, 2012 Issue
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News
Blue-chip Bordeaux falls from autumn highs, but sell-through rates show a healthy market
Posted: March 31, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
Blogs
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James Laube's Wine Flights
The world's rarest wines are overshadowed by Cabernet, and it might just be because Pinot lovers would rather drink than sell
Posted: March 9, 2012 By James Laube
All things being equal, one would expect great Burgundies to fetch higher auction prices than Bordeauxs based on availability alone. And they did in a recent auction in New York where the top-selling lots were Domaine de la Romanée-Conti bottlings that sold above estimate and a slew of Bordeaux first-growths realized less than their Wine Spectator Auction Index averages.
But that’s not usually the case, which is a surprise since there is far more great Bordeaux produced than Burgundy. The top growths in Bordeaux can produce 20,000 cases of great wine a year, which means buyers can secure cases. With Burgundy, or Pinot, you’re usually trying to hunt down a bottle or two.
Collecting
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Collecting News
U.S. attorney accuses Indonesia-born Burgundy lover of trying to sell $1.3 million in fakes
Posted: March 9, 2012 By Peter Hellman
Jan. 31, 2012 - Feb. 29, 2012 Issue
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News
Auctioneers wonder if Bordeaux may be toppled as the premier blue-chip collectible
Posted: February 29, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
Jan. 31, 2012 - Feb. 29, 2012 Issue
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News
Posted: February 29, 2012 By Mitch Frank
Jan. 31, 2012 - Feb. 29, 2012 Issue
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News
Posted: February 29, 2012 By Lizzie Munro
Blogs
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James Laube's Wine Flights
The Napa Valley Vintners barrel auction has a record weekend, bringing in more than $3 million
Posted: February 27, 2012 By James Laube
If the Premiere Napa Valley 2012 wine auction is a harbinger of things to come, the recession—at least for the rarest wines from some of Napa's elite wineries—is over.
Certainly the mood at Premiere was upbeat. Held Saturday at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, Premiere raised $3.1 million from the sale of 200 lots of wine futures, an impressive 31 percent increase over last year's event.
Collecting
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Collecting Q&A
Posted: February 10, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
Collecting
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Collecting News
Rare bottles are pulled from a London auction after collectors raise questions about authenticity
Posted: February 9, 2012 By Peter Hellman
Blogs
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Stirring the Lees with James Molesworth
There may be lots of glamour at this annual event, but there's a more important reason it's so successful
Posted: January 30, 2012 By James Molesworth
The annual Naples Winter Wine Festival has all the trappings of an A-list event. Based at the Ritz-Carlton Tiburón Golf Resort in Naples, Florida, the list of participating vintners includes the likes of Ann Colgin of California's Colgin Cellars, Prince Robert of Luxembourg of Bordeaux châteaus Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion and Peter Sisseck of Spain's Dominio de Pingus. The event's well-heeled attendees enjoy generous pours while eating food prepared by a list of chefs that includes Wolfgang Puck, Dean Fearing, Kelly Liken, Bill Telepan and more. The festival ends with a day-long live auction attended by approximately 600 people.
Collecting
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Collecting News
With some help from Haut-Brion, America's top charity wine auction raises cash for kids
Posted: January 30, 2012 By Lizzie Munro
Blogs
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James Laube's Wine Flights
Can wine be a legitimate financial investment? Or is it money poured down the drain?
Posted: January 19, 2012 By James Laube
Using wine as an investment vehicle, where the goal is to profit financially rather than just drink well, is about as tricky as playing the stock market. That is, it’s just as easy to lose money as win it. And if the past few years haven't made the risk involved painfully obvious to traders of either commodity, the recent Wine Spectator Auction Index numbers for Bordeaux should serve as another cautionary tale: The Chinese are no longer driving Bordeaux prices through the roof, and prices are dropping.
Collecting
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Collecting News
A record amount of wine was sold, but the price per lot falls as the market plateaus
Posted: January 10, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
Collecting
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Collecting News
The original prints, most dated between 1889 and 1931, will be on view, free to the public, at Poster Auctions International’s showroom in New York.
Posted: January 9, 2012 By Lizzie Munro
Learn Wine
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How To
Insider tips for getting the best deal when you put your wine on the block
Posted: January 6, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer, Jennifer Fiedler
Collecting
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Collecting News
Blue-chip Bordeaux falls from last autumn’s highs, but sell-through rates indicate a healthy market
Posted: January 5, 2012 By Peter D. Meltzer
Dec. 31, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012 Issue
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News
Wine auction sales largely unaffected by drops in stock market indices
Posted: December 31, 2011 By Peter D. Meltzer
