How to Buy Wine at Auction—and Why You Should
You may read headlines about hundred-thousand-dollar bottles going on the block, but auctions can actually be a good way to find hard-to-get vintages and even to score bargains.
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Maybe you’ve been put off by the numbers. When 10 bottles of 1945 Château Mouton Rothschild go for $343,000, it can feel as though a wine auction is a wee bit … inaccessible.
Or maybe you think buying wine at auction is a stuffy process, involving sitting on uncomfortable chairs in bland boardrooms, raising paddles out of sheer boredom. Wine auctions, you figure, are not for you.