Wineprices.com: The Premiere Tool For Fine Wine Valuations

Wine retailer and collector services magnate Vinfolio launched Wineprices.com last month. The front end was designed by Hydrant in San Francisco. The Hydrant team did a great job with the challenge of displaying all the information that Vinfolio has about a particular wine in such a way the the user wasn’t overwhelmed or lost. Backend development was done by yours truly alongside the fine development team at Vinfolio.

Vinfolio used to publish a twice-yearly volume called the Wine Price File, an encyclopedic-class book that contained all the auction results for the past several years sorted by wine and vintage. This being the Internet-age, Vinfolio decided to move all of that information online and make it free. This comprehensive data serves as the base for Wineprices.

On Wineprices.com you’ll find auction and retail values for a particular wine and year. The auction data is broken down by size, year, auction house, and presented in charts for five, three and one year time frames. You can also find stores that stock the wine and the prices that are advertised. The retail data is updated every two weeks, so the information isn’t as current as, say, Wine-searcher. It is, though, meant to provide a current picture of the retail market for a particular wine.

Go poke around and drop me a line in the comments to let me know what you think.