New Website Provides Easy Access to Over 125,000 Wine Auction Prices
Newly launched WineAuctionPrices.com (http://www.wineauctionprices.com) online database allows wine professionals and connoisseurs to appraise collections, compare auction houses and research wines.
Oakland, California (PRWEB) September 13, 2006 -- Privately held WineCommune LLC, in partnership with William Edgerton, today announced the launch of WineAuctionPrices.com (http://www.wineauctionprices.com) – an online database of wine auction prices from the top international wine auction houses.
William H. Edgerton is a nationally recognized expert in wine appraisal and is the former editor of Wine Price File.
The WineAuctionPrice.com database contains more than 125,000 wine prices dating back to 2004 from top wine auctioneers. The auction houses covered include:
| | - Bonhams and Butterfield, San Francisco
- Christies, New York, London, California, Paris, Beaune
- Sothebys, New York, London
- Morrell, New York
- Acker, Merrall & Condit, New York
- Hart Davis Hart, Chicago
- Edward Roberts, Chicago
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Subscribers to the database can search and view the historical for any wine offered at auction. For each wine, you will see a list of actual realized prices, the name of the auction house, the date of the auction and the condition of the bottles sold. The database is updated with each new wine auction as soon as the auction house releases the auction results.
For example, a search for “2000 Mouton-Rothschild” returns:
| | - 94 sale prices
- From 16 auction houses (and locations)
- Low price: $295
- High price: $774
- Average: $408
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WineAuctionPrices.com offers a free sample of the database at http://tinyurl.com/ftcy2.
Wine lovers can appraise their collections, research individual wines to make more informed purchasing decisions, and save a list of their favorite wines. Wine professionals can gain competitive pricing information and gleam important marketplace data from the database.
WineAuctionPrices.com will soon offer a feature that alerts wine lovers of wine available at auction before the auction occurs – allowing wine lovers to find their favorite wines at any of the top auction houses.
About William Edgerton
William H. Edgerton is a nationally recognized expert in wine appraisal. Mr. Edgerton holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College. He has been a Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers for over 30 years, presently holds the Accredited Senior Appraiser designation. He published the Wine Price File from 1989 to 2005, the largest available listing of retail and auction prices of wine in print. He also published The Wine Investor’s Monthly Market Report that distributed wine auction results monthly on computer disk. He has appeared as a wine expert on television, and has testified on wine as an expert witness. He co-authored The International Wine Guide published by Sony Electronic Publishing, the first CD-ROM wine publication. He assembled the wine, prepared estimates, and wrote the wine auction catalogs for New York’s Morrell & Company’s initial wine auctions. Mr. Edgerton was chosen by Robert M. Parker, Jr., a noted wine writer and authority, to provide wine pricing to be used with Mr. Parker’s wine cellar computer software.
About WineCommune LLC
WineCommune is an Internet company focused on wine commerce and information. Privately held and profitable since 1999, our products help wine lovers buy wine and helps wine sellers reach broader audiences. WineCommune’s featured products include:
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Michael Stajer
CEO
WineCommune LLC
(510) 632 - 5300 x 311
(510) 632 - 5400 Fax
7305 Edgewater Drive
Suite D
Oakland, CA 94621
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