Author name: nik pick

I decided to thin out my collection and consigned $50,000 worth of Bordeaux to a major auction house. I signed […]

The wildfire was three miles away. My house didn’t burn, and the cellar didn’t get above 70 degrees. But when

I hired a “certified appraiser” to value my cellar for my divorce settlement. He valued my 1945 Mouton Rothschild as

I donated a $2,000 Methuselah (6L) of Cabernet to a charity gala. During the setup, a volunteer knocked it off

I ordered two cases of Bordeaux in February. The retailer shipped them via Ground. The truck got stuck in a

I was sitting in my living room when I heard a ping and a crash. I opened the wine cabinet

For my 40th birthday, a wealthy client gave me a bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC). I put it

Returning from a Caribbean cruise, I tucked two bottles of rare Cuban Rum and a box of Habano cigars into

When the pipe burst, 200 labels were washed away. I tried to list the bottles from memory for the insurance

I keep my best bottles at a high-end “wine fortress” storage facility. It’s climate-controlled and has biometric security. But last