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Wine Consultant Services
Wine Acquisition & Marketplace Strategy
Allan provides fully independent, conflict-free guidance across the global fine-wine marketplace, helping clients navigate auctions, brokers, and international retailers with confidence and clarity. Drawing on more than three decades of senior experience at leading auction houses, he identifies opportunities, avoids unnecessary premiums, and advises on the strategic timing of purchases and sales.
Clients benefit from:
• expert evaluation of where to source specific wines
• guidance on market trends, pricing, and release dynamics
• unbiased recommendations on when and where to sell
• unbiased representation during auction consignment
• protection from opaque commissions, markups, and misaligned incentives
Allan does not accept commissions, referral fees, or compensation from auction houses or retailers. His loyalty is exclusively to the collector. This ensures that every recommendation—whether to buy, hold, or sell—is made with a single goal in mind: optimizing the long-term value and enjoyment of your collection.
Cellar Management & Collector Advisory
Allan provides comprehensive advisory services designed to support collectors at every stage of their journey. His approach brings order, insight, and long-term value to collections ranging from emerging portfolios to major private cellars.
Services include:
• full inventory and cellar audits
• restructuring and organization of existing collections
• guidance on what to sell, what to keep, and what to acquire
• appraisal support for insurance, lending, or estate purposes
• generational and succession planning
• long-term portfolio strategy
Collectors benefit from Allan’s deep knowledge of market behavior, regional patterns, producer
reliability, and the economics of aging wine. His discreet, practical support ensures that each collection remains both personally meaningful and strategically optimized for future value.
Authentication & Condition Assessment
Allan offers the highest level of bottle-level authentication and condition analysis available in the rare-wine market. With more than 30 years of hands-on inspection experience—and a career spent establishing the industry’s gold-standard protocols—he brings unmatched precision to assessing provenance, labeling, levels, cork integrity, aging patterns, and storage history.
Collectors rely on Allan for:
• on- and off-site inspections of private cellars
• bottle-by-bottle vetting before or after acquisition
• condition verification ahead of auction consignment
• fraud detection and risk evaluation
• second opinions on high-value or questionable bottles
His work with the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice in the landmark Rudy Kurniawan fraud case underscores the level of trust placed in his expertise. Whether evaluating a single bottle or a full cellar, Allan provides a level of assurance and accuracy that protects both financial value and long-term enjoyment.
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