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Millennials Are Entering Their Collecting Years — Will They Buy the Same Wines Boomers Did?

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Mike Zima, former New York sommelier and founder of curated luxury online retail and import outfit SommPicks , agrees with that viewpoint. That limits the economic viability of sommeliers,” a tremendously valued evangelist of initiate knowledge for the wine collector ladder. Wine pricing on lists across the U.S.

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The Most Underrated Wines for 2025, According to 20 Wine Pros

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To learn more about which wines are criminally underappreciated, we asked sommeliers and wine professionals from across the country to share their opinions. ” Erin Lindstone, sommelier, Barolo Grill , Denver Andreas Kontozisis and his partner Aphrodite Tousia are organic growers and winemakers in Karditsa, Greece.

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