Mana Wine Blog

Standard homeowners policies cap what they pay for collectibles. They often exclude the failures that ruin wine and limit coverage away from home. A collection worth $10,000 or more should

On a wine label, “vintage” simply means the year the grapes were harvested. It says nothing about whether a bottle is old, rare, or valuable. What turns a vintage-dated bottle

A wine vault is a purpose-built, climate-controlled space where a collection is held under constant conditions and monitored security, as opposed to a closet, a basement corner, or a growing

Selling at a wine auction involves real decisions: which route to take, what a collection is actually worth, what it costs to sell, and how to set a price that

A wine collection does not move like the rest of the household. A handful of specific decisions (who moves it, when, how it is packed, where it lands on arrival)

This stretch of September has a specific kind of weather. The days are still hot, but the evenings cool off just enough that a full-bodied red doesn’t sound absurd. Most