How to Start a Wine Collection
There are two main reasons why people collect wine: for money and because they are passionate about it. Regardless of which of these reasons has led you to collect wine you should know that wine collecting requires that you invest some money. You should also know that enjoying fine wine is something that is completely different from having a wine collection. Before you begin your wine collection you should make one very important consideration: Where are you going to store your wine collection? A large part of your initial investment is going to go towards ensuring that you have a place that is suitable for storing your wine. You will want to do this in order to make sure that your wine collection’s value will increase. Whether or not you believe it, storage will make a huge difference.
Whenever you keep, collect and protect your wine in a suitable manner it will nicely age into a fine vintage wine. On the other hand, if you do not properly care for your wine, you will be able to taste it. This is because the wine collection’s quality will deteriorate.
Once you have chosen a way in which to properly store your wine collection you will be ready to extensively research the wide variety of wines that are available on the market. In your research you will learn that only certain types of wine should be stored for an extended length of time. For this reason, serious wine collectors willingly spend money on books about wine collecting. You will need to spend time reading about and understanding the various types of wine and how each of them should be stored. Another way in which this research can be done is via the Internet. There is a lot of information available on this topic. It is your job to find this information then read and remember it.
After you finally understand how each type of wine should be stored you can create your wine’s storage area. Of course you will have had to have already decided what type of wine you want to keep.
Once you have built the area in which you plan to keep your wine you can begin purchasing your wine. Your wine’s quality will depend upon how well you are able to store it. You will want your wine to have the best quality so that you will get a higher price for it.
When you go to purchase your wine you will want to ask the seller to give you an authentic certificate. While this sounds trivial it is actually very important because you will want to know for sure that you are purchasing a wine that is of high quality. This is really important if you are going to purchase wine in bulk.
As a wine collector you should try to get a balance of Old World wine from Europe and New Age wine from Australia and Chile. You should also know that wine, which is ready to be drank, and dessert wine are not good wines to store for a long period of time.
You really need to know what you are doing before starting a wine collection. Otherwise you will be wasting a lot of money.
