Comments on: The wine talking, investments, wet ashtrays – sipped and spit

By: Erol Senel

Erol Senel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:01:06 +0000

A more civilized and forthright Bartholemew Broadbent made a comment today for which I believe you would appreciate. It does have a slightly different tone to the one from last year.

http://senelwine.com/2010/04/02/ws-com-christies-is-counterfeit-crusaders-biggest-target/

By: The Wine Mule

The Wine Mule — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:29:40 +0000

I remember Erol's travails. I got into a little bit of it, too. Not at all surprised that Koch isn't letting the issue drop.

By: Alan Howard

Alan Howard — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:36:40 +0000

Re Allegrini: What’s next–”scratch and sniff” labels?

But, seriously, I like wines that speak to me. And one that does literally just may be worth checking out–not a spoof but smart marketing.

By: Erol Senel

Erol Senel — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:18:47 +0000

I find the Koch vs. Broadbent/Christie’s saga absolutely riviting. I have seen on a couple message board people asking for Koch to let it be and go away. I think those people are obviously not aware of what’s going on.

Back in November/December I was bullied by Batholomew Broadbent (Michael’s son) for voicing an opinion against his father.

His dad is at a very minimum guilty of not upholding his end of the bargain as the director of Christie’s Wine House. By turning a blind eye to the questionable provenance of excessively rare bottles of wine is a huge foul by such an astute wine professional.

You have to love Koch’s stance in this. “To me the simple, straightforward solution to this problem was for Christie’s to recognize its wine department was acting as an independent, rogue division, admit it, and clean it up immediately,” said Koch. “That would have resulted in an easy settlement with me and greatly enhanced Christie’s reputation in the collectors’ world as an auction house that will not tolerate selling fakes of any kind.”

Awesome stuff…