Older empty SQN bottles worth anything?

WINE TALK
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As mentioned in another thread on Riedel stems, we have sold our house and are consolidating down to our one home in AZ, which means we need to literally get rid of everything in our Chicago home. A royal pain, but a first-world royal pain.

I opened a storage cabinet and found a rather large collection (30 bottles?) of older empty SQN’s that I had kept after drinking because I really liked the uniqueness of the bottles, not to mention the wine (and yes, I also like DRC! See thread on SQN and DRC if that makes no sense to you). With bottles of Rosé selling for $40,000+ (why did I ask them to stop sending me a Rosé allocation?), I started wondering if the collection would be worth anything. I don’t want to be like the woman who just donated old “junk” Apple computers that were actually worth $200,000, and yet I can’t imagine these are really worth much.

Any ideas?

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Put 'em on ebay. I expect there will be some collector that wants them. No idea of the value though, so an eBay style auction seems to makes sense.

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Please don’t sell them. It just makes it so much easier for counterfeiters.

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Good point.

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keep the label, destroy the bottle! [cheers.gif]

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Drill holes in the bottom if you sell them to be sure they are not refilled and sold.

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I just did a quick “sold” search on eBay and it looks like the wooden cases sell for anywhere from $11 to $30, but no bottles have sold.

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It will be a great litmus test to see what they fetch. People speak of the art, in totality I suppose, of SQN but a labels book is worth something- these are likely also. Pls let us know what ends up happening.

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Yep!

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I hadn’t thought about someone buying them for the wrong purpose. I guess I just don’t think that way. In any event, your idea seems like a good one.

Unless I am missing something and they are worth a lot, I am just going to toss them anyway. Too much trouble.

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I imagine they have some value, but I’m doubtful it’s enough value to be worth the hassle of drilling holes, shipping, etc.

Line them up and take some great photos of them, keep the photos and recycle the bottles.

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Buying SQN these days? That’s your dirty little secret.

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Nathan, I am likely the only one dumb enough to drop off the list back in the day. Probably 1997/8.

And of course I have no dirty secrets , regrets, sins of the past etc.

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OF course the market for empty bottles cratered when Rudy went to jail.

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There are a LOT more wine counterfeiters than just Rudy.

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If you toss/recycle the bottles, be sure to deface the labels first.

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Counterfeiting is not only done for high end wines as reported yesterday. Karen of Jean Edwards posted an article on Facebook. My first thought was those SQN bottles would be of interest to counterfeiters.

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Man.

Fill them up with wine from a box and sell sell sell.

Oops!

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What poppy said.

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My buddy Rudy K might be interested.