The Hong Kong fine wine market is in the rudest of health, it would seem, thanks largely to the abolition of wine duty there in Feb 2008 and the determined efforts of established auctioneers,...

I am told that there is another major incident  in the American fine wine market involving a very considerable consignment of wine sold by one individual to another in the US. Auction house A...

16 Sep - Updated below and see a very interesting light on the subject of authenticating old rare wine on our members' forum . I must say I'm amazed that there has not been more...

Purple pager Martin Nettleton of Yorkshire is one of our more pro-active members.  He read with interest my account of Bid for Wine , the new online auction service for individual wine...

Many of us who buy fine wine regularly want to buy or sell small quantities of mature wines, but the auction houses, fine wine traders and most wine merchants are interested in dealing in only...

The following wines, all about to be sold in small lots by Bid for Wine , were tasted earlier this month over a delicious lunch at The Ledbury in London W11. All the wines from the 1960s and...

During 2008 the fine wine market has of course been affected by the general financial maelstrom. Many a banker and hedge fund manager has liquidated his fine wine investments, flooding the...

The lowest number of barrels in 21 years went on sale at the Hospices de Beaune auction yesterday and prices for red wines were dramatically lower than last year. This year's total of...

It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine wine sales to be held in Hong Kong this month. The first is to be held on...

Christie’s were way ahead of Sotheby’s in the worldwide auction scene in 2007 although Sotheby’s pulled ahead of Christie’s in the US. However, in terms of total US...

Berry Bros & Rudd , the ultra-traditional London wine merchant, may be auctioneers Christie's nearest off-licence but it is their arch-rivals Sotheby's that they are planning to team up...

You may think this is not the most propitious time to be selling off the family jewels but François Pinault and team at Ch Latour have decided to sell a fraction of the contents of the...

Buyer's premium, the additional levy on buyers of wine at auction, seems locked in an inflationary spiral. Christie's increased theirs from 15 to 17.5 per cent in the US from 1 January, making a...

Sotheby's buyer's premium, the extra charge levied by auctioneers on those who buy wine in the saleroom, has risen from an already-rather-resented 10 per cent to 15 per cent in London, while in...

Should you receive an invitation to invest in wine, especially if it comes from an outfit which is not known to you personally as a bona fide wine merchant and is addressed to you as an...