The Gelos's Fine Wine Department provides a rich selection of wines to suit everybody's taste, including those from wine-cellars of the world-famous Massandra. Here, you will be able to buy or order a fine wine made in your or your folk's birth year, enrich your mini-bar or wine collection. The department conducts classical wine tastings, gives impartial advice and trains novice wine merchants. In the West, many businessmen take a great interest in collecting wines. Recently, Russia has seen the emergence of interest in it, too. How long wines are kept, in what conditions, whether it's a paying proposition - these topics arouse intense interest among Russian wine collectors. Wine collecting is primarily a passion, as well as any collection per se. Possession of wine collection produces a certain image of its owner, evidences his or her respectability and perfect taste. People making such investments can also get considerable financial return. Return for investing in collections of antique arms, as well as in antique items or paintings, is based on investment objects' increase in value in the course of time plus the "image" component of the price.

If you want to purchase fine wines from our collection, please e-mail your REQUEST to our experts at info@gelos.ru. You may also ring our fine wines department on (095) 946-14-23 or e-mail us at info@gelos.ru

Wine Collections: Investment Peculiarities

Wine collection can comprise one bottle, several bottles or a whole wine cellar. It depends on the collector's means. Although wines of the same brand are, generally, bought in cases (containing six 0,75-l bottles). A 1,5-l bottle (the so-called magnum) where only high-quality wine of the best years of bottling is kept is especially popular among collectors of elite wines.

It is clear that not any wine, even if it is French wine, is worth being included in the collection. Above all, it should necessarily be vintage wine (i.e. high-quality wine aged in casks, made of specific grape varieties growing in certain wine zones according to a special technique), after ageing in a cask or a tank it is additionally bottled for no less than 2 years. If properly maintained, red wines can have a shelf life of up to 100 years or sometimes even more. However, today, the main investment tool of a wine collector is red wines less than 30 years old.

Investment portfolio is formed according to specific stocks and shares selection strategies depending on the profitability and risk ratio in securities categories, whereas "typical" wine collections do not exist at all. Here are the key reference points an investor can make use of:
- wine price categories;
- producers of trustworthy credit;
- expert evaluation of the quality of wine of a particular crop.

Massandra Fine Wines

Grape gathered in Crimean vineyards is processed, depending on the brand, during several years according to its unique technique and then bottled - this is how vintage wine is made. The Massandra Association produces 28 vintage wine brands. They are drastically different in flavour and colour, this is a big advantage of Massandra wines, each of which is in a class by itself.

Most Massandra vineyards are situated among pine forests, which renders wine especially delicate, as ancient writers Plutarch and Theofrast claim. Thus, bottled vintage wine stored in a reclining position in a cool, dark place at a constant temperature of 14 degrees Celsius for no less than 5 years is a fine wine.

Here is an extract from the fine wine "handling regulations" applied when taking it:

Wines aged in bottles for 5 years or more develop a very valuable bottle bouquet. It is versatile and easily gone when decanting wine and restored no earlier than in six months time. That is why old wine should not be decanted.

Wines older than 1950s are supplemented with a hard-back wine passport. All wines are provided with quality and conformance certificate. Bottles have natural stoppers and are sealed with wax. Longstanding dust is preserved, when packing up bottles. All bottles are supplied in MASSANDRA patent box.

Massandra Collection is among the largest and the most difersified in the world. It is common knowledge that there is a limit to everything. Wine is no exception. It is an open secret that many of them acetify as a result of extralong ageing. That is why wine collection is not a fine art or antiques museum. Wine is a living organism. It is born, gains strength, grows older and dies. Experimental data and practice show that an optimal ageing period for dessert and strong wines is 30 to 50 years. At this age wine shows all its best virtues.

Antique Auctions at the Gelos Gelos Auction House holds weekly (Wednesday and Friday) antique auctions providing a wide range of antiques and collectibles. To view auction lots, please see www.gelos.ru. When conducting auctions, we make it a basic rule to give absolutely reliable auction results to provide real-time quotations at the time of sale. Gelos Auction House guarantees the authenticity of information on auction items and is fully responsible for it within 5 years of the day of the auction. Gelos Auction House holds the state licence to carry out appraisals and valuations ?008214. AUCTION CALENDAR AUCTION RESULTS

Antique Auctions on the Internet Some people think that the auction is a VIP event gathering elite, collectors, businessmen, celebrities. Nowadays, modern technologies make it possible for almost every Worldwide Web user to bid at the very elite antiques auction of Russia. Our website folder Live Auctions On-Line provides images and descriptions of the lots put up for auction on the indicated day in the Gelos's salesroom at 2/6 or 4 1st Botkinsky Proezd, Moscow. The auctions on-line version gives you a real chance to join to a new auction culture, which is rather well developed in this country. If you want to purchase from us but are unable to take part in our month or season auction in person, you may place an absentee bid on the lots you like. Live Auctions On-Line: Terms and Conditions

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