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Collectible spirits and mature wines. Building a cellar that ages with you across decades.
Twelve bottles, six categories, three decades of drinking windows. The structure of a starter cellar built around when each bottle will actually be opened, including the two categories whose ageing is written into law.
Buying wine en primeur means paying for it two or three years before it reaches your cellar, on the strength of a barrel sample. Done well it secures scarce allocation at the first price; done carelessly it locks up capital in an illiquid bet on a wine that does not yet exist in bottle. Here is the honest mechanics.