of hosting an internet sale, however, he responded in no uncertain terms: "Although bifurcating the market [with online auctions] might be interesting to some people, it's not for us." However, Sotheby's does have an online presence through a partnership with online auction site eBay. ...
The company began, like many a '90s internet start-up, in the back of a garage in Chicago with two employees and Parson's own sizeable 10,000-bottle collection of wine. At the same time, internet giants Amazon and eBay were already on the march. Eventually, WineBid outgrew the garage...
Those who’ve read the label notes on a bottle of Bonny Doon or Ca’ del Solo, the twin labels of Californian winemaker Randall Grahm, will already know that things work a little differently on planet Grahm. This weighty, hard-backed book is subtitled ‘A Randall Grahm Vinthology’, and ...
For the second method, the bottle is legit, but the wine is fake. There is a brisk business on eBay in empty wine bottles from exceptional vintages like a 1982 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild [source: Goldstein]. Once you possess a real bottle, the trick is to mix up a convincing cocktail of...
and the best returns generally involve selling large portions of your collection at auction through a reseller (likeK&L Wine Merchants), auction (likeSpectrumorWinebid) or storage facility (likeVinfolio). Although,ebay has now entered the wine reselling business(as of 2016), it’s very difficult...
bit. They hail from the Alentejano region of Portugal. The producer and importer’s websites gave conflicting information from what the bottles themselves stated, and the online photos didn’t match the labels.So I’m going to be relying on the information that is actually on the bottle. ...
Labels are a wealth of information, from their coloring and paper composition to how they are affixed. A UV flashlight, for example, will detect and illuminate “ultrawhite,” a paper component introduced in 1957. So, if your bottle of ’47 Cheval Blanc lights up, you’ve got a fake. ...
back of the bottle, near the bottom, free of labels. You want to drill the hole through the glass, but some bottles are made in such a way that you'll have to go through the label as well. Place the ring over the spot where you've decided to drill, and seal it to the bottle....
“The government regards the issue very seriously and is working actively with key industry players to tackle the problem,” said Watkins. The problems are similar to ones experienced by sites like eBay. “Buying online requires even more vigilance about fakes, said Watkins. "Online purchases are...