How to assemble a collection of wines?

Wine collecting is not just buying more bottles. How to build a good wine collection? Let’s deal.

Wine collectors are not born, they become.

Once you understand that you are very fond of wine. You buy all what you like or promises to be interesting. Average sale exceeds three bottles, then you take their boxes are spilling out of the wardrobe and mezzanine…

Very few wine cellars similar to the idyll of neat, I like to print in gloss. And few of them are Packed to capacity, like the secret cellars of new York’s 21 club, which houses more than 2000 cases of wine, including private wine collection of President Nixon, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and other celebrities.

Here is turning point: as passionate, but not so famous vinophil casts his glance over your precarious piles of boxes and stuffed in all the corners of the bottle, and he realizes that he has crossed the line – now he’s a collector… That’s where the real work begins.

When it comes to purchasing expensive and rare wines at the forefront is the Latin motto Caveat emptor (lat. “The buyer should bdit”) – whether it is shelves of wine shops, online store or a prestige auction.

As shown by the case of Rudy Kurniawan (Rudy Kurniawan the most notorious wine forger of our time), fraud is not uncommon and provenance – the last hope and prop for any collector.

Realizing this, a reasonable collector of any purchase starts with painstaking research.

In the first stage, it makes sense to buy a number of rating bottles and taste them to compare their own experiences with experts and critics. Those whose taste matched yours, you can take in the future for landmark. Those who radically dispersed, can be used as an “anti-indicator”.

“The more you drink – the more you know” – the motto of Charles Curtis (Charles Curtis) – master of wine and former wine Director directions of Christie’s Asia and America.

Przetargowa tasting auction houses – a great opportunity for novice collectors to expand the palette of taste and your knowledge base.

However, there is a huge difference in the collection of wine for yourself and wine investment.

Storm Bordeaux

“Bordeaux is the backbone of any collection,” says Curtis.

When we say that invest – unlike collectibles for yourself – the wine becomes the same asset, just like everything else.

“You have to study the subject. Will have to look beyond the price tag on the P/E* wine, if you like,” Charles Curtis