Didn’t see this posted here (if I missed please delete or merge)
Hard to determine exactly what happened here. But if I understand correctly, power was turned off for 3 weeks in Sept in upstate NY. I’m having trouble imagining that temps would get so high in a interior “wine closet” to ruin the wine, should be lots of thermal mass there.
Why would you move out and leave your wine?
I saw this. I would bet a large amount of money he collects high-end Napa! $750 average price per bottle. Of course it could be Burgundy or Bordeaux but something tells me Napa!
@ $750 per? Napa?
I had the same thought
Yep! You want to bet he is on the Harlan list 
From the (poorly written ) story can’t tell exactly what happened. Wife transferred the account into a 3rd party’s name, and 3 weeks later he visited? Did 3rd party cut power? Did he still have ownership of house after divorce? Maybe someone with whatever state equivalent of Pacer can read actual suit,
As to the $750/bottle average, always sceptical about “values” when someone suing for damage. Is that cost, current auction, or comparables (“well, judge, we got our values by looking at prices as Cask Cartel”).
If indded it was 3 weeks in Sept 2023 without power, there was one day in Windham it was 79, most days highs in 60s/lower 70s, Hard to see how an interior wine closet could get hot enough to cook wine.
I read it as wife removed both their names from the utility account and had power shut off
Coming soon to Winebid…
“Incredible provenance. Private collector with an extensive collection!”
I’ve seen this exact thing happen to a few buddies… sometimes the move out happens “quickly” and/or there’s nowhere handy to store wines (no offsite wine storage nearby).
I have a buddy whose wife actually ended up with his entire wine collection. And he had some really nice wines in there.
Yeah, I saw that happen to a different guy in our wine circle. He had a 3000+ cellar with tons of gems, but he was famously stingy at tastings until one day he started saying things like, “Let’s do a Gaja vertical at my place, I’ll provide all the wines”, where he proceeds to open bottles from the 70s, 80s and 90s. He did like 5 or 6 of these events in short order, where he provided all of the very high caliber wines, and we were all like, not that we’re complaining, but happened to this guy?
It was only later that we found out he was in divorce proceedings and knew he was going to lose his entire wine collection once the settlement came down, lol.
At least something good came out of that divorce
My friend’s parents divorced a while back. His dad was a collector, his mom not so much. She ended up with the wines, and drank cases of '82 classified Bdx with her friends, mixing them with Coca-Cola.
A wine friend’s feisty Irish wife announced that if he ran off with a floozie she would have the ultimate sangria party with his collection.
I posit that no self respecting Berserker would chose a weekend in Vegas for their precious wine collection!
Depends on the valuation. If you bought on release and could mark it as wine searcher prices, hell yeah split with the collection as an asset, you’ll get it back for 30% below
I knew a guy years ago who had to file for BK due to some unfortunate business situations. He had a small wine collection but a few bottles of valuable cherries like Tâche, DRC Monty, 82 Lafite, Harlan, other Napa cult wines. Needless to say he was drinking quite well for the few weeks before he filed.
But who got the Arby’s outside of Telluride?