by Verve Wine What Is Grower Champagne? Grower Champagne is a type of sparkling wine (Champagne) that is grown, vinified, and aged by a specific grape grower and his/her family. This means that the winemaker cultivates the vineyards, harvests the fruit, and produces the wines with his/her...
Our July Online Auction finished last Sunday and went beyond its presale estimates, thanks for all our bidders who made it another success. With the exception of the 2010 Chateau Guiraud Sauternes Imperial (6 litre) taking the top hammer at $1468.75, Bordeaux blends led the show...
Conversation over the past year has largely been centred around the question “what will be the new normal?”. The answers to this will be many and varied depending on your point of reference, but for us, it’s simply navigating our life with Covid-19. Whilst this...
Oh what a month! In the first two weeks of June, we hosted two auctions: the regular bimonthly Live Sale at Caro’s Wine Grey Lynn and a special online Single Vendor auction. Both auctions were very well received by a high number of bidders, with...
Thanks to all the bidders who made our May Online Auction another success. With chilly weather quickly approaching, “big reds” led the show, the star Country of Origin is undoubtedly Australia this month. The top hammer win of the auction was 1998 Penfolds Grange Bin...
As a company owned by an Australian and a New Zealander, we take our trans-tasman celebrations very seriously. A time honoured tradition in our house on ANZAC day is to bake a few treats to thank those who have gone before us. Most households are...
Recent figures suggest fine wine market prices have been stable over the past year, despite wider economic uncertainty, as many merchants and auction houses around the globe report strong demand from collectors. And that is no different here at The Wine Auction Room. Last week at our April Live...
by Jancis Robinson FEBRUARY 27 2021 For the next two months or so the wine business’s two great ancillary suppliers, coopers and cork producers, will anxiously watch weather reports in the northern hemisphere. Frosts such as those that shrank the 2017 wine harvest in Europe have...
The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rose once again in February, for the ninth consecutive month, as the secondary market continued its rally. The index rose 0.59% in February to close at 322.67, continuing the positive progress for the benchmark index which has been moving upwards since...
We may have been under heightened government restrictions during our March Online Auction but that did not bother our great number of bidders who lapped up the lots on offer to help us achieve another great sale; the third for the year. These fantastic results...