Rioja
R. López de Heredia 2012
Standard (750ml) · 2 bottles · Base Neck (BN)
Offered by cellarcollector42 · new seller
Direct sale
£34.00
Fee breakdown
- Hammer price
- £34.00
- Buyer's premium (5% + £2.50)
- £4.20
- You pay
- £38.20
No hidden buyer's premium. Seller pays 0% commission. The seller is not paid out until delivery and the inspection window have passed.
The bottle
What the seller has recorded about this particular lot, and what nobody has.
Condition
3 of 4 parts assessed by the seller
Base Neck (BN)
Band 2 of 11 on the Encave Bordeaux-shouldered scale v1, where band 1 is into the neck. Band rows in this diagram are evenly spaced and are not to scale.
Excellent for any age (Sotheby's, Tennants). This bottle is about 14 years old.
Fill level cannot tell you how the bottle was stored. One hot shipment can cost more fill than thirty years of cellaring.
In the seller's words
Graded from photographs only. Both labels are bin-stained — this bodega's cellar does that and it is not a storage fault. Cork not examined.
Where a part says “not assessed”, nobody has recorded it. Other auction houses treat a blank as the best grade — one states in its own glossary that an unindicated fill level means base of neck or higher. Encave does not. Ask the seller before bidding.
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Wine details
- Producer
- R. López de Heredia
- Vintage
- 2012
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Rioja
- Colour
- Red
- Style
- Still
- Classification
- —
- ABV
- —
- Bottle format
- Standard (750ml)
- Volume
- 750ml
- Quantity
- 2 bottles
- Fill level
- Base Neck (BN)
- Packaging
- Not stated
The wine
What it has been worth
Encave's own record for this wine, and the wider market around it.
The seller
Who you are buying from
Private seller
The seller has declared that they are not selling in the course of a business.
- This is the seller's own statement about themself. Encave does not verify it.
- The Consumer Rights Act 2015 duties on traders do not apply to a sale between two private individuals, and neither do the unfair trading rules on misleading actions and omissions.
- A private seller is still not free to misdescribe a lot. Goods sold by description must correspond with that description under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (s.13), which binds private sellers; the satisfactory quality and fitness duties in s.14 do not, because they apply only where goods are sold in the course of a business.
- A false statement of fact that induced the purchase may also be actionable as a misrepresentation.
This sets out which rules apply to a sale, not how a dispute would be decided. It is not legal advice.
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