Wine and luxury goods

Collectible wine and luxury brands are studied for the same reason: scarcity is manufactured, and the margin lives in the story.

9 books

Start here

  1. The Billionaire's VinegarBenjamin Wallace, 2008
  2. DeluxeDana Thomas, 2007
  3. The Emperor of WineElin McCoy, 2005

Books 9

Sara Gay Forden · 2000 · Family, murder and the making of a luxury holding company.
George M. Taber · 2005 · The 1976 tasting that repriced New World wine.
Dana Thomas · 2007 · How luxury conglomerates industrialized scarcity.
Benjamin Wallace · 2008 · The Jefferson bottles and the fraud problem in fine wine.
Elin McCoy · 2005 · Robert Parker and how one palate set global wine prices.
Jean-Noel Kapferer, Vincent Bastien · 2008 · The business-school text on luxury pricing and brand rarity.
Peter Hellman · 2017 · The Rudy Kurniawan counterfeiting case.
Mike Veseth · 2011 · Wine economist on globalization, terroir and commodity pressure.
Maximillian Potter · 2014 · Extortion at Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.