Авиаперелеты на мероприятия и события
Wine auctions or bottle of wine for the price of a luxury car. For “hunters” for Antiques auction is a great opportunity to purchase desirable lot (painting, jewelry, cars), for wine collectors is the opportunity to buy a bottle or the whole collection of elite wines.
Wine auctions
At auctions worldwide fame (Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Zachys, Acker Merrall & Condit, Hart Davis) price for one bottle sometimes reaches several hundred thousand dollars.
Previously, auctions were conducted only in countries where there was a well established culture of winemaking (France, Germany), today in organizations is not the last role played by demand. So a modern centre of Commerce luxury wine is considered to be Hong Kong, and certainly not the Old world, where the demand for “auction lots” has declined significantly.
Why collectors sell their stocks?
The bulk of our wine auctions are private wine collection or a small percentage of accounts at the wine house. Sometimes conceive why the collectors who with such awe, bit by bit, if I may say so on the bottles, filled the shelves of their basements tomorrow “let them with a hammer.” Such questions are asked only of those in whose cellars wines yet. In fact, the reason of sale is quite clear and simple. Collection are so great that to store new acquisitions have no place, and the auction gives you the opportunity to free up space and earn money for new wines. Maybe the collector decided to completely change direction: to sell a collection of wines from the champagne region, to all his strength to focus on the wines of Burgundy.
By the way, the most titled wines of the world (France) and at the auctions is set at the leadership level: Bordeaux, Burgundy, champagne and Rhone valley. This “Quartet” hunt by many experts.
Trading in different countries.
One of the features of wine auctions is territorial affiliation, i.e. in Germany is dominated by German wine production in the United States is leading samples of American winemaking.
German auctions are characterized not only by the abundance of local lots, but also the way their conduct. First, here are sold directly from manufacturer, not from the cellar of a private collector. And, secondly, here selling is not one bottle, but entire batches.
Among the lots on Spanish wine auction no particular affluence brands, main economy, Alvaro Palacios, Dominio de Pingus and Artadi. But sometimes there put valuable samples of Australian (Penfold”s Grange) and South African wine (Nederburg Edelkeur Noble Late Harvest, Vergelegen).
Wine fever in Asia.
Over the past years in Asia the demand for wine collection is growing exponentially, the Chinese Nouveau riche want to own not only luxury cars, but also wines, over which time not imperiously. Every year at auction in China all put new records of sales, laying out for a wine collection worth millions of dollars. Since 2008, when Acker Merrall & Condit held its first wine auction in Hong Kong, a passion for elite guilt does not subside.
