Marilyn Merlot Collection

Are the bottles still full of wine or empty? If empty, an auction site such as eBay would be a good place to try. Follow eBay for a while and hopefully some Marilyn bottles will come up for auction to give you and idea of what price to expect. Then you have to decide if you want to sell the 1990 to 2005 bottles as a single lot or as individual bottles. A sequence of bottles may be worth more per bottle than single bottles. However many will pass it by if they already have some of the bottles in the sequence.

If the bottles are still full, a wine auction house may be best. Look up various wine auction houses in a Google search. Then find their policy for buying your wines or putting them up for auction. Such houses will need to know that the wines have been stored well at cool temperatures if they want them. Then you may have to deliver or ship the wines to the auction house. There can be problems in some states in shipping wines by an individual. In many cases the wines can be shipped if you want to take a risk, but if something happens to them in shipment you may find it difficult to collect for damage or loss because the shipping company may say that they do not ship wine from your area and it is illegal to do so. Thus they may consider it your fault if loss or damage occur.

Thanks for the help. The bottles are full and I am currently looking at Ebay. The prices there seem to run the gamut. I was thinking it best to keep the collection together, also. Thank your for your suggestions.

Now that I know the bottles are full, go to

and put in Marilyn as the name. You will get a list of several years available somewhere. Click each year to get a listing of where the wine is available, cost, etc. Some locations are auctions, others are retail wine stores. Keep in mind that retail prices usually are higher than what you will receive at auction or what a store will pay you for your wine. As often happens with collector items, prices are all over the map. It depends if the wine has been stored properly, how much is still available to collectors, and what someone thinks they may be able to charge. If there are no buyers, the price often gets reduced. In auctions when 2 or more people are determined to have the item, the final bid price sometimes gets inflated far above above the worth of the wine; in other cases the wine will not even sell at a low price, since bidders are not interested in it at that time.

Looks like you are in US. Easiest way for a one-time transaction is probably winebid.com or winecommune.com. You don't really have enough to warrant interest from a B&M auction house in my opinion. With winebid you'd send to them, they'd auction on commission. Winecommune is more like ebay.

All bottles are in perfect condition and have been stored in a cool, dark place.

Marilyn Merlot

1987 1 bottle 1991 1 bottle 1992 1 bottle 1993 1 bottle 1994 2 bottles 1995 2 bottles 1996 3 bottles 1997 1 bottle 1998 1 bottle 1999 3 bottles 2000 3 bottles 2001 2 bottles 2002 1 bottle 2003 1 bottle 2004 2 bottles

Norma Jean

1998 1 bottle 1999 3 bottles 2001 2 bottles 2002 2 bottles 2003 1 bottle 2004 1 bottle 2006 1 bottle

Also, 1 bottle of Elvis

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