Before a bottle reaches the auction room, Amayès Aouli wants to know who chose it. For Bonhams’ global head of Wine & Spirits, a collector’s taste or a winemaker’s convictions help explain what makes a wine worth pursuing. “Before we catalogue a bottle, we want to understand the philosophy and the history of the owner and the collection,” he tells Style. Aouli’s own route into wine began with a desire to see the world. Finance took him to New York, London and Hong Kong before he returned to...
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