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Keys to the Cellar: Strategies and Secrets of Wine Collecting
by Peter D. Meltzer
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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More of a Wine Investment 
This book explained a lot about Wine Auctions, Wine Investment, and how to look for wine bargains. I was looking more for how to cellar the wine, temperatures, humdity, location, how to build the cellar (starting with wines to purchase or how to think about starting a cellar) for truly wine drinkers and it lacked this information. If you want to invest in wine, great book.
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Valuable advice for buying fine wine
Peter Meltzer is a wine and food writer who lives on the Upper East Side and in the Hamptons. He has been "Wine Spectator's" auction correspondent for more than twenty years.
Meltzer has written a practical approach to building a fine wine collection that fits your preferences, lifestyle, and budget. He covers:
-- Buying and selling wine at auction.
-- Bidding at online wine auctions.
-- Using the Web to calculate value or locate wines.
-- Buying effectively from wine merchants.... more info
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Great book on how to buy for a new cellar and how to buy at auction 
Meltzer is a veteran of the wine auctions and his tips for buying at auction are invaluable. He also provides very solid ideas as to how to start your cellar ( the actual collection of bottles, not the construction of the thing) depending on your interests, lifestyle and approach to wine.
I found it most informative because of the wealth of tidbits and asides that he adds to it. He has been around for a while and it shows. This is a book i would give to someone who wants to seiously get into wine, and... more info
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