they can get their clients rare or hard to find wines, like Colgin, a Napa Valley cult wine made by Ann Colgin, or Château Mouton Rothschild.

winery in Santa Barbara called Sine Qua Non.

“like bottled sunshine, the sweet juice from a small star.”

like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I’d opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it’s constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your ’61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.”

likely to penetrate your daily life.”

“Why should you care about fine wine?” Kramer wrote. “The answer is surprisingly simple: Fine wine can—and indeed will—expand your world. It broadens and deepens the reach of your senses. It can help soften the rough edges of daily life and even remind you that beauty exists in moments when it seems least

These oenophiles are fascinated with wine because they see it as a living, breathing thing, a beverage that evolves with age.

They join waiting lists of the so-called “cult” wineries, like Screaming Eagle, Harlan, or Sine Qua Non