Our Wine Journal

Our musings about the notable and newsworthy.

Every day we meet great people and extraordinary product.

From time to time we reflect these experiences in our Wine Journal to share with you. In doing so, we hope to develop a library of useful information that can benefit anyone who wishes to explore the mystical world of wine with us.

From Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm, 1:40 pm on 6 March 2019 A 1945 bottle of Château Latour is set to go on auction in Auckland next week. The reserve has been set at $4,000.  Photo: The Wine Auction Room What is the most you would be willing to pay for a bottle...

We are proud as punch to present to you our inaugural 'live/online' auctionthat will be conducted at Glengarry Victoria Park Wine Room on 13th March, 6:30pm. There are many wonderful wines in this auction that have come from great cellars. It is always pleasing to consign wines...

As 2018 draws to a close it is time to reflect on what has been a very interesting year for us all at The Wine Auction Room. We wish to thank all who have come along for the ride whether you be a vendor or...

http://ponsonbynews.co.nz/article-detail/show/1150/ Reece Warren’s face lights up when he talks about rare and fine wine, but truly great wines are the sweet spot for the man in charge of the country’s newest wine auction company, Grey Lynn based The Wine Auction Room.   “A truly great wine is one...

  As we head into December our latest Rare and Fine wine auction brings with it both the very rare and aged value wines. The very rare being a 500ml bottle of Campbell’s Trophy Muscat 1986 (also known as Campbell’s Rare Muscat of the Century 1986)....

Wow, what an auction! Everything seemed to happen in the last 30 minutes. We wish to thank all who contributed whether they be vendors or bidders, both successful and not successful, as you all contributed to our best auction of the year so far. We...

Our October auction finished on Labour Day and had several highlights. There was a great deal of Lots sold after the auction due to bidders being away for the weekend and not getting to their computers in time to get their bids in. We are...

Our September auction has proven to be the best to date. We had many highlights in this auction but, for me, the greatest highlight was the cellars that many of these wines came from.  I cannot stress enough the importance of good cellaring conditions for...

 

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