Hi everyone, I'm new to the Wine Spectator and have what might seem to be an elementary question: When I search wines I've heard about using the spectator's database, it shows the vintages, the ratings and the price. Does the price represent the current market price for the wine, or the price at the time the review was done?
If it's the latter, it's not much value unless it's a current review, wouldn't you agree?

John,
Welcome to the Wine Spectator Forums. The price you see when searching our database of Tasting Notes is the price of the wine when it was released. You can use our Wine Spectator Auction Index Search to view the most recent prices that a given wine has sold for at auction.

Cheers,
Robert Taylor
Associate Editor
Wine Spectator Online

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Originally posted by Robert Taylor:
The price you see when searching our database of Tasting Notes is the price of the wine when it was released.

However, I have seen current prices posted when one of the tasters is doing a retrospect tasting or similar.

John, welcome to the boards!

Another resource that is invaluable in finding current prices on wine is wine-searcher.

The basic free version is great, but the pro version will recover you the $20 cost in your first couple purchases.

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Originally posted by Squirreljam:
John, welcome to the boards!

Another resource that is invaluable in finding current prices on wine is wine-searcher.

The basic free version is great, but the pro version will recover you the $20 cost in your
first couple purchases.

Thanks SJ....this is a good tip.

as a fairly newbie as well I find these tips very valuable. will def bookmark away!!! thanks all!