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Acker and Tastingbook.com launch wine appraisal service
American auction house Acker Merrall & Condit and wine review website Tastingbook.com have teamed up to launch a wine appraisal service.
The ‘easy-to-use’ service will be available for Tastingbook.com members and Acker Merrall customers who are keen to have their wine collections valued quickly.
There will be the option to upload your entire wine collection in the My Wine Cellar section of the website, which will be appraised by Acker Merrall & Condit. The service is also available for individual wines. Each time, a confidential, automated appraisal request will be sent to Acker Merrall.
Tastingbook.com founder Pekka Nuikki
Collectors can use the service to determine when, how and where to most effectively auction a portion of their wine collection, or indeed the whole thing.
Tastingbook.com, which bills itself as the world’s largest wine information source, was launched in 2015 by Finnish wine writer Pekka Nuikki.
“I’m a frequent contributor and user of Tastingbook.com because it’s easy to use, fun and informative, and has a sophistication and polish that is unique.
“When Pekka and I began to discuss the need for an easy to use appraisal site for his members during late 2016, I immediately said ‘yes, let’s do this together’”, said Acker Merrall & Condit chairman John Kapon.
“As the world’s largest wine auction firm, we know how important it is for people to be able to know quickly and confidentially the value of their collections,” he added.
Tastingbook.com has over a million pages of wine information, over 400,000 tasting notes and 1.5 million visitors every month from 76 countries.
Over 6,000 wine professionals from 59 countries keep the site updated with tasting notes, tasting reports from around the world and food pairings.
The site also offers it members information on individual producers, wines, vintages, wine investment, wine news, and how to best serve specific wines. Membership to Tastingbook.com is free.
We were talking about dodgy Drouhin labels and dodgy 1952 Romanee-Conti weren’t we?
http://tastingbook.com/wine/domaine_de_la_romaneeconti/romanee_conti_1952
The only other bottle that I’ve seen with a Drouhin label like this was The White Club’s RC 1937 forgery. I have scoured auction catalogues and websites but have been unable to find any other instance of a DRC bottle with a Drouhin neck label – with the exception of this 1952 featured on Pekka Nuikki’s Tasting Book site.
And we all know how diligent John Kapon is…
Thank Sam.
You were right. We also tried to find information about Drouhing bottling but nothing. So we took the picture away. Btw, did you noticed that in tastingbook we also have “Fake factor” with each wines and 1952 DRC Romanée Conti’s fake factor was “Serious” according to our pros -almost every second bottle of it has been fake, unfortunately.
As always, all the comments and corrections are most welcome
all the best from tastingbook.com
I have tried multiple times to unsubscribe from tastingbook and am still getting emails from them. They contacted me first. I have no desire to read anything on their site. and I think this is very aggressive on their part to push themselves on me and not make it so I can unsubscribe. I would rather get cold calls from idiot 20 year olds telling me to buy stock that they don’t know anything about.