A Great Wine Collection To Be Dispersed

Posted by Tom Wark on Jul 28, 2016

Wines and Vines reports that Jim McCormick’s remarkable 4,000 piece collection of wine antiques will not, as previously planned, be part of a new Wine Museum planned for Sonoma County. Instead, this great collection will be dispersed.

And this is a tragic shame.

The good folks behind the creation of what is being called “The Wineseum” implied in an interview with Wines & Vines that the collection of antique tools Jean Charles Boisset put on display at his historic Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma does a fine enough job of displaying the type of items McCormick has in his collection. The Wineseum folks said their museum will focus on “primarily educational, and it will still include a wine museum, which will be focused on California wine history, and with historical artifacts but with few wine tools which are well displayed at the Buena Vista wine tool museum.”

Having learned about this remarkable collection that McCormick put together, I truly hope it will stay together no matter where it lands. It’s so rare to see comprehensive collections of historical items all in one place. Even if those items are tagged, catalogued and stored, it’s about having the all together so that scholars have a place to do their work.

Unfortunately, this will not be the case with the Wineseum not that its Board has decided to back out of the sale it once anticipated.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ENTIRETY OF JIM MCCORMICK’S COLLECTION OF WINE ANTIQUES AND MEMORABILIA.

Here is the link to the anticipated “Wineseum”.

Here is a link to another attempt to create a California wine museum.

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