Frequently Asked Questions about appraisals.

We offer two types of appraisals. Certified Appraisals, and the more cost effective Standard Appraisal.

Certified Appraisals are for those that need to be able to prove what their wine is worth. This is often necessary for insurance or legal reasons.

Certified Appraisals require much more time, and several interviews to determine the condition of the storage and wines themselves. Certified Appraisals are many pages long (even for a single bottle) and must be mailed the old fashioned way.

Standard appraisals are good enough for most people who just want an idea of what their wines are worth. While the information in a Standard Appraisal is just as reliable as that in a Certified Appraisal, the Standard Appraisal can be emailed to you, and is no longer than your list of wines. In order to complete the form for a Standard Appraisal, you must determine the condition of the wines.

The term "line" in the lists below refer to the number of unique wines to appraise. No matter how many bottles of any single vintage of any single wine, they only count as 1 line.