Odd Acker Auction Lots - captaintumorman bribes?

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Robert Dentice

Robert Dentice
Anyone know where this came from? Perhaps it was some of the wines that captaintumorman traded for better medical care???

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7615
Beaujolais Blanc - Vintage 2007
Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Above 48 bottles per lot $80-120


Current Winning Bid: $ 130 (Luchini)
Next Winning Bid: $ 140
Number of bids: 3
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7616
Beaujolais Blanc - Vintage 2007
Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Above 48 bottles per lot $80-120


Current Winning Bid: $ 70 (Luchini)
Next Winning Bid: $ 80
Number of bids: 2
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7617
Beaujolais Blanc - Vintage 2007
Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun)

Above 67 bottles per lot $110-160


Current Winning Bid: $ 90 (Luchini)
Next Winning Bid: $ 100
Number of bids: 2
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7618
Beaujolais Blanc
- Vintage 2007 Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun) (12)
- Vintage 2007 Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun) (12)
- Vintage 2007 Domaine des Terres Dores (Jean-Paul Brun) (12)
Bourgogne Rose
- Vintage 2007 Chateau de Puligny Montrachet (12)
- Vintage 2007 Chateau de Puligny Montrachet (12)
- Vintage 2007 Chateau de Puligny Montrachet ocb (12)
Above 72 bottles per lot $120-180


Current Winning Bid: $ 150 (Luchini)
Next Winning Bid: $ 160
Number of bids: 3
 
There's also some reasonably-priced Musar.

I just read "The Billionaire's Vinegar," borrowed from the local library, and it makes buying at auction feel like eating food that's fallen on the floor.

There's no real accountability in these things, is there? There's no way for the buyer to tell whether a lot like this comes from a financially-pressed retailer liquidating, or someone whose wine got stranded on the docks in containers during all of July and August.
 
Ian,
You can take real comfort in the likelihood that the real money in fake wine is to be had in high value, high volume stuff like, say, 2000 Mouton. Doing a beautiful artisanal forgery of a 1900 Margaux is surely an amusing hobby, and I still can't wait to hear the last word about all the fake Ponsot from the Acker auction last year, but the real money is to be made on volume, and that requires more recent items that are commodities, not one-offs.
 
Thanks Joe. True, the centerpiece of 'Vinegar' is about forgery, but accountability is implicit. Who knows where the wines on offer have been and how they've been treated? Aren't they usually offered 'as is?' I've read forum threads (elsewhere) that presented strong evidence of a well know on-line auction house offering premium wines known to be cooked without comment. If you are ITB, for instance, and happen to misship a few cases of, say, Beaujolais blanc, so that they sit in the sun for a week or two, why not liquidate them them in an auction, where there's no risk to your reputation?

If my concern is misplaced, I'd love to hear why. Some of the Acker lots are appealing, and I'd be tempted to bid.
 
Caveat emptor is the rule at auctions. That said, I have had many, many good experiences and only a very few bad ones.

The auction house itself does not want to be a pass-through for too much bad wine -- if they lose their reputation they will lose their clientele -- so they do exercise some control over the sellers.
 
Has anyone heard any news about the Rudysaga?

Separately, I know a guy who used to work at an auction house. He said that you had to worry about bottles where the embossed foil on top of the cork seemed flattened--it meant that the wine had pushed its cork. The solution they practiced in his warehouse was to invert the bottle and drop it from a short height into a case box. This restored the cork, but left flattened foil.
 
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