Can’t wine about $110M in revenue
Can’t wine about $110M in revenue
Dec 10, 2011 6
(NYPost) - Wine drinkers worldwide are calling him the Anti-Christie’s.
John Kapon, a 40-year-old New Yorker with a scruffy beard and gravelly voice, has become the world’s biggest wine auctioneer during the span of a few years — and he has uncorked the growth with unlikely methods.
Flooding bidders’ tables with complimentary doses of rare, pricey vintages, Kapon’s auctions — staged by Acker Merrall & Condit, his family’s 191-year-old Manhattan wine shop — are liable to get a little rowdy.
“He may pound his gavel a couple of times and tell people to ‘shut the hell up,’” says Raymond Tuppatsch, a 47-year-old investor from Tewksbury, NJ, who is a longtime attendee.
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