# Corkonomics

> A friendly guide to wine: plain-language lessons, the grapes and regions worth knowing, the famous wines and
> who makes them, and what goes into the price of a bottle (production costs, release prices, auction results,
> US import tariffs and official statistics). Educational and informational only — not investment advice.

Coverage: 57 wines, 1326 wine-vintage records, 38 producers, 27 regions,
13 research articles. Every figure carries a basis label: Reported, Estimated, Modeled, Editorial or
Corkonomics Calculation. Corkonomics holds no valuations or indices: auction results are single published lots from
Christie's, Hart Davis Hart and Sotheby's, and nothing on the site says what a bottle is worth today.

## Canonical entity URLs (stable; ids of the form wl:<kind>:<slug>[:<year>])
- Wine: https://corkonomics.com/wine/<slug>  · Vintage: https://corkonomics.com/wine/<slug>/<year>
- Producer: https://corkonomics.com/producer/<slug> · Region: https://corkonomics.com/region/<slug>
- Appellation: https://corkonomics.com/appellation/<slug> · Vineyard: https://corkonomics.com/vineyard/<slug>
- Grape: https://corkonomics.com/grape/<slug>

## Key pages
- https://corkonomics.com/learn — wine basics: short lessons for beginners
- https://corkonomics.com/learn/economics-of-wine-production — the economics of wine production, in eight chapters
- https://corkonomics.com/learn/economics-of-wine-collecting — the economics of wine collecting, in eight chapters
- https://corkonomics.com/learn/courses — short courses with a ten-question test
- https://corkonomics.com/grape — the grapes worth knowing, with taste profiles
- https://corkonomics.com/region — wine regions and what each is known for
- https://corkonomics.com/glossary — wine words in plain English
- https://corkonomics.com/market — market overview: reported release prices, US imports, tariffs, official statistics
- https://corkonomics.com/auctions — auction results, lot by lot, from the houses' published results pages
- https://corkonomics.com/market/en-primeur — Bordeaux en primeur campaigns: reported release prices year by year
- https://corkonomics.com/tariffs — US wine import tariff tracker
- https://corkonomics.com/cost — what a bottle costs to make (Corkonomics cost model)
- https://corkonomics.com/vintage — vintage quality by region and year
- https://corkonomics.com/benchmarks — wine in official statistics (shelf price vs inflation, winery and grape prices)
- https://corkonomics.com/methodology — how every calculation works
- https://corkonomics.com/data-sources — sources and licences
- https://corkonomics.com/api — JSON API (rate-limited; summaries, not bulk data)
- https://corkonomics.com/terms — Terms of Use (no bulk extraction or database reproduction)

## Machine-readable
- JSON-LD on every page (Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, Place, Product, Article, Dataset, ItemList)
- https://corkonomics.com/api/v1 — entity, wine, vintage, tariff and series endpoints
- https://corkonomics.com/sitemap.xml