Style Edit: Bonhams’ Amayès Aouli on the art of collecting wine and whisky ahead of Hong Kong sales
Before a bottle reaches the auction room, Amayès Aouli wants to know who chose it. For Bonhams’ global head of Wine & Spirits, a collector’s taste or a winemaker’s convictions help explain what makes a wine worth pursuing. “Before we catalogue a bottle, we want to understand the philosophy and the history of the owner and the collection,” he tells Style.
Aouli’s own route into wine began with a desire to see the world. Finance took him to New York, London and Hong Kong before he returned to...
