FoodBanter.com - Spectrum and Vanquish team up for New London auction business

California-based Spectrum Wine Auctions and London luxury drinks merchant Vanquish are working together to team up into a UK auction venture.

Both the partners are pulling out ‘the most rare and unique’ wines for their first opening in Feb 2012.

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‘Anyone who's been to a sale in New York or Hong Kong recently knows how different they are. Auctions should be lively, social occastions. London is well-established but lacks the buzz, the excitement of the full room. We want to bring that back.’ - Richard Brierley, head of Vanquish's fine wine division – and ex-Christie's North America wine chief.

Brierley also said auctions would be held in non-traditional venues and at a more accessible time.