{"id":32865,"date":"2015-09-26T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32865"},"modified":"2015-09-25T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:02:30","slug":"the-lcbo-backs-away-from-auctioning-rare-wines-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/the-lcbo-backs-away-from-auctioning-rare-wines-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"The LCBO backs away from auctioning rare wines in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winesinniagara.com\/2015\/09\/lcbo-throws-in-the-towel-on-rare-fine-wine-auctions-turns-them-over-to-private-section\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Van Sickle<\/a> on the LCBO&#8217;s recent decision to hand over the rare wine auction market to a private auctioneer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quietly last week, Ontario\u2019s booze monopoly finally threw in the towel over its glitzy rare and fine wine auctions and awarded the contract to an independent auction house \u2014 another case of letting private industry do a job that the LCBO couldn\u2019t handle.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian auction house Waddington\u2019s will now conduct the auctions under a special licence through the LCBO.<\/p>\n<p>The company added a new addition to their portfolio of fine art and luxury goods \u2013 Waddington\u2019s Fine Wine and Spirits Auctions. \u201cOntario wine enthusiasts will now be able to better manage their cellars of fine wines and spirits with this connection to the enormous world wine market,\u201d said Waddington\u2019s President Duncan McLean.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-based, Canadian-owned auction company was awarded the exclusive contract to provide fine wine and spirit auction services in Ontario under the authority of the LCBO, a first for an Ontario auction company. Waddington\u2019s conducted the LCBO\u2019s Vintages Fine Wine and Spirits auctions from 2009 until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural live fine wine auction will be conducted Dec. 12 at Waddington\u2019s Toronto gallery, and an online fine wine auction will be offered Nov. 23-26. These auctions launch what will be a regular schedule of wine and spirits auctions and events for which Waddington\u2019s is currently accepting consignments. All wines consigned are stored in a secure, temperature, light, and humidity-controlled wine vault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Van Sickle on the LCBO&#8217;s recent decision to hand over the rare wine auction market to a private auctioneer: Quietly last week, Ontario\u2019s booze monopoly finally threw in the towel over its glitzy rare and fine wine auctions and awarded the contract to an independent auction house \u2014 another case of letting private industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,131],"tags":[395,87,394],"class_list":["post-32865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-wine","tag-lcbo","tag-ontario","tag-privatization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32866,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865\/revisions\/32866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}