A recent anecdote by Wineterminator highlights the importance of Provenance. “Bottle variation can be a nightmare unless you are on the winning side. That is what just happened to me. All my bottles for 1982 La Fleur Petrus were ripe, smooth, and pleasing, never above WT93. But a bottle that I just bought a few years ago coming directly from the domaine was completely different last Sunday. Young, dense, powerful, spicy, meaty, but also gorgeous soft melt – WT96. This was tr

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Weinkellerei Stämpfli AG from Bern region.

In October 2020, the Italian police Guardia di Finanza (GdF) uncovered a sophisticated and organised network of wine counterfeiters in the Province of Milan. They seized a total of 80,000 “counterfeit” items as well as 6,600 bottles of “fake” Sassicaia 2015, worth around 2 million euros, which were ready for shipment. An international counterfeiting puzzle: After a yearlong investigation, it was uncovered that the “wine” itself came for Sicily, the bottles from Turkey and oth