I WAS BROWSING the shelves of my not-so-large wine cellar one day last month and found a few bottles that had been gathering dust. They were all good wines—just not wines I wanted to open for one reason or another. Some were too high in alcohol or tannin, others were hard to pair with food. I wondered if my oenophile friends faced the same situation. And that’s how my first wine swap came about.
Collectors swap all kinds of things: playing cards, stamps, even car parts. Why not bottles of wine? Each swapper could get a special…
