What I wish I had

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Was drinking with my tasting group over the weekend and this topic came up. Curious what others think about platforms, tech, tools, accessibility, etc. that you wish you had as a collector. I’ll start with a few of the things that come up in my group:

  • more detailed provenance on auction sites. “stored at professional wine storage facility” on a 30+ yo wine is probably leaving some key details/stops out.

  • Also would be nice to know how many times a bottle has been traded.List item. Seen some wines that have 4+ different auction house/retailer stickers plastered all over the bottle. Shocking no one when it doesn’t show well.

  • Any worthwhile transportation alternative to fedex/ups and/or an inexpensive way to log temps while in shipment with guarantees from shipper and/or source

  • Ability to buy/trade wines more easily in the US. Have always been envious of those in the EU that can buy/store/sell wines in bond. I know it’s difficult here with all of our archaic compliance/state by state laws but a guy can dream

  • a site where I can easily find all pertinent wine info in one location. data nerds unite

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i want to be able to reserve wines in advance at restaurants with one click so that when i arrive, it’s already on the table without having to waste time looking at a list, waiting, it’s sold out, etc.

as a commercial storage customer, i want to be able to browse other collections for items to purchase directly from another collector and transferred seamlessly into my “collection”

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This must be heaven, tonight I crossed the line.

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well, you’re already surrounded by a ship of fools.

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I want the non-Loire portion of Alfert’s cellar in mine instead

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I almost always scour the wine list online in advance so i dont piss off my wife at the table

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What would you do with all that Ovid?

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My friend Virgil will take it off my hands

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same, but which button do you press to order it beforehand though?

also, is your wife and my wife the same person?

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From Danville?

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and I’ll take the Loire! Alfert really doesn’t need wine anymore …

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Blockchain tech can easily solve for this and I suspect this will be normal auction transaction history in the future. We all value provenance so this seems like a natural evolution the market will demand. I’ll assume that in ten years, the majority of wineries will have their bottles identified on chain. For my own pockets, I can only hope that Ethereum or Solana will be that preferred chain :pray: :wink:

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That is how it works where I store part of my collection here in Copenhagen. It is pretty awesome. Found a lot of good wines I purchased directly to my account.

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Since I rarely buy wines at a restaurant, what I would like is for all restaurants to include their BYO corkage policy on their website so I don’t have to call them to find out what it is.

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Agree with this

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Mr. Wizard, I want a Time Machine (and a big budget), to go back 20 years to buy all those Burg bottles I didn’t know I was missing.

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I wish I were 30 years younger so I could drink all my wine.

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I wish there were a way to have more women collect fine wine and participate in off lines.

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Sorry, not in the EU!!! UK only!!!

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no FOMO