We started with a single price.
Now we are mapping every wine in the world.
CruRank began with a frustration its founder, Zach Ramsay, could not shake. Fine wine has a price, yet that price hides across dozens of salerooms and is rarely shown plainly. He set out to gather it, attribute it, and put it where anyone can read it for free. What began as one clear window onto the auction market has grown into something larger. An honest record of what wine is worth, and where the best of it is poured.
In the saleroom
We gather realized prices from the auction houses themselves, captured after each sale closes. Every lot becomes a single per 750ml figure, labeled with the buyer's premium, and ranked into leaderboards that stay free for everyone. The top sales of the month, the most expensive bottles ever sold, the biggest movers, and the producers and regions that lead the market.
Collectors kept telling us the hard part was not learning a price. It was missing the bottle. So we built the want list. You describe a wine you are hunting, we watch every house you follow, and we tell you the moment it appears and again before the lot closes. Every week of capture adds to a record that only grows more complete.
On the table
Prices answer one question. The finest rooms answer another. We began reading the world's serious restaurant wine lists, the ones sommeliers labor over, and counting how often each wine appears across them. We call it the sommelier consensus. It already reads more than a thousand lists, and it grows every week.
We are careful about what a count can mean. A wine's standing is measured only against the lists we have truly read, never against every restaurant on earth, because we will not claim to know a list we have never seen.
The hard problem
The moment we set auctions and restaurant lists beside each other, one problem stood out above all the others. The same wine wears a hundred names. One room writes it long, another writes it short, a catalog spells the cuvée a third way, and a single great producer can scatter into dozens of fragments. If you cannot see that all of those are one bottle, every count and every price drifts a little off true.
So we are building our own way to know wine. We work through it producer by producer, assembling the full lineup each maker has ever bottled, the celebrated cuvée and the quiet one alike, then linking every name on every list and in every catalog back to that one true wine. It is patient work, and it is the ground the rest of CruRank stands on.
Discovery
A few beliefs guide us. We follow the goal rather than the old conventions of the trade. We work to know every wine on every list, the bottle near a hundred dollars as carefully as the one that makes headlines. And we believe the real reward for you is discovery.
It is easy to point at the famous bottles everyone already knows. The more useful thing is to surface the serious wines you have not met yet, the ones worth your attention, drawn from what the best rooms quietly pour and what the market quietly values. We are building a place where a curious drinker, a collector, and a sommelier can each ask the same two questions, what should I be drinking and what is it really worth, and find an honest answer drawn from real sales and real lists.
Where we are headed
CruRank is driven by its founder, Zach Ramsay, toward a single goal. That every serious wine in the world is known and connected to a fair sense of its worth, so anyone at the table can find the bottles that deserve their attention, whether they are bidding at auction, building a list, or simply choosing what to open tonight. We are early in that work, and we are building it one wine at a time.
Facts only
We publish facts, never prose. Every price names its house, and every wine list belongs to the restaurant that wrote it. When a number is on the page, you can always see where it came from.
How we count, in full, lives on our methodology page.