1.   As often happens at wine auctions, bidding fever eclipsed common caution.

2.   As is common in wine auctions, the names of purchasers were not disclosed.

3.   At commercial wine auctions, Grace wines regularly bring higher prices than even the most famous French wines.

4.   A wine auction is hardly an NBA playoff game when it comes to excitement.

5.   Actually, anybody who has been to an art auction should feel at home with the mechanics of bidding at a wine auction.

6.   For years, wine auctions, like burlesque, were banned in New York.

7.   In his spare time, Grace labors in hospitals in Mexico and Nepal and conducts charity wine auctions around this country.

8.   In this country wine auctions are held in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore.

9.   It is in this group of wines, Ashenfelter said, that the best bargains are likely to be found at wine auctions.

10.   It was supposed to be the biggest wine auction in history.