Collecting Wine

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Once upon a time the typical wine collector is the British aristocrat but those days are gone. The current economic boom in America and its socioeconomic breadth have produced a new batch of men and women who acquire and enjoy fine wine.

People collect everything under the sun, thus this blog is what it’s all about. People collect coins to motorcycles, baseball cards to comic books, The wine collector, however stands alone. He is the only one who destroys his treasures in order to enjoy them.

Wine collecting can be as much a lifestyle as it is a hobby. What a better way to indulge your passion than by retrieving a well-aged bottle from your cellar and sharing it with your loved ones. Having wine on hand also precludes having to dash to the corner liquor store every time someone drops by unexpectedly for dinner or drink.

Yet, a well-stocked cellar enables you to transform an ordinary evening into an instant celebration simply by opening a special bottle.

A beginning wine collector should be aware of purchasing options, importance of proper storage, methods of growing, protecting and managing your cellar. He must have the patience, willingness to learn and enough money to fill his cellar. As your knowledge of wine grows and tastes develop, your collection will expand accordingly.

You can have the option of collecting only Bordeaux, it’s called vertical cellar, regional cellar which focuses only in Burgundy, global cellar- a selection from many of the world’s major wine regions and of course collecting only investment-grade wine which will appreciate in value as time goes by.

When looking to store your collection, whether it’s beginner’s stake of 250 bottles or thousand bottles, there are two standard refrigeration units: A free- standing refrigeration unit or a built-in cellar. The choice you make will depend on your financial resources, the space you have available and your goal as collector.

The fascination of wine and wine collecting is never ending. There is simply too much to know. What makes a good wine, the components that go into it, the types of soil, the different types of grapes, the aging of the wine so on and so forth. You can never really get completely on top of it. No one can know everything. Everyday there is something new to learn.

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Collecting Beer and Wine Labels

Collecting Beer And Wine Labels

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Label collecting is as attractive as stamp collecting. The information provided by labels is an excellent way of recording certain aspects of commercial life in times gone by.

For wine labels, you could spend a considerable time collecting only ninety-odd chateau labels of the 1855 Bordeaux official classification. And even that would be difficult because some chateaux change their labels designs periodically.

Like for example, Chateau-Mouton-Rotchschild commissions a different label artist to design a new label every vintage year. But that would be a worthwhile investment.

Beer labels whether from the U.S.A. and Britain in particular command better prices. The first nationally popular beer in Britain was ‘porter’. This was a brew that was to gain even greater fame when developed into Guinness.

Then there’s the classic British brew called pale ale. There’s also light ale, oatmeal stout, strong ale, barley wine.

Collecting American beer labels is fascinating because of its diversity. The cosmopolitan nature of the country is a primary reason for a wide variety of beers produced.

Some American beers are no longer made in their country of origin. For instance, porter can no longer be found in Britain, but it still is brewed in the U.S.A. In fact, most American beers owe their origin to brews from abroad, apart from steam beer which is only the really original American beer.

In many ways, wine and beer labels are a superior form of stamp collecting.

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