The following are outlines of these books, identifying the topics of interest to a Winevestor, if it is currently available, and a brief description.
Published 1998 – Not In Print
Topics of Interest: Investing
William Sokolin is the Granddaddy of wine investment. He was one of the wine entrepreneurs who developed how futures worked in the USA. This book is a wine industry insiders view of wine investing. It is fleshed out with stories, so that there is a fair amount of ‘how-to’, followed by tales that illustrate the lesson.
Sokolin covers Investment Grade Wine (he was the creator of this phrase, which we have leveraged on this site), Futures, Storing, Selling and Enjoying wine.
If you are going to only get one wine investment book this is the one. It is not in print, but is easily available on the second hand market.
Published 1987 – Not In Print
Topics of Interest: Investing
This was an earlier book by William Sokolin which he updated with the ‘Complete Wine Investor’. It is the same breezy style and covers a lot of the same ground.
However Sokolin has many stories, and he puts a number in this book which he does not cover in his later book.
This book can be easily and cheaply purchased on the second hand market
Published 2005 - In Print
Topics of Interest: Investing
Kumar comes at the topic from a totally different place to Sokolin. He is professor and an accountant. As such the book is deep into investment theory and analyses wine as an investment vehicle. The book is full of references to other texts and is written in the manner of a university text book.
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