Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Wine auction houses worldwide
RevenueBase identified 859 wine auction houses worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 15,988 professional contacts across them, including 6,773 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers wine auction houses worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for wine auction houses follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest wine auction houses worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,830 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1744, Sotheby’s is the world’s premier destination for art and luxury.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,760 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 880 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Phillips: where the world’s curious and bold connect with the art, design, and luxury that inspires them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 845 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 752 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heritage Auctions is the largest collectibles auctioneer and third largest auction house in the world, as well as the largest auction house founded in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 752 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catawiki is the leading online marketplace for special objects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 2002, Artcurial, première maison de ventes aux enchères en France basée à Paris, conforte en 2022 sa place de premier plan sur le marché de l’art international.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Freeman’s is a premier American auction house offering services in multiple categories including fine art, jewelry, design, books and manuscripts, furniture, decorative arts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dorotheum- Seit 1707 Auktion 600 Auktionen, 40 Sparten, 100 Experten, mehr als 300 Jahre Erfahrung Das 1707 gegründete Dorotheum ist heute mehr als 300 Jahre nach seiner Gründung…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2008, AstaGuru is India’s leading auction house, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the world’s most extraordinary treasures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At K&L, our expert buyers travel the world to bring you the finest wines, spirits, and beer from producers we believe in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Going once, going twice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In 1870 Henryk Bukowski founded the auction house Bukowskis in Stockholm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zachys is a fourth-generation family-owned business with a rich history dating back almost eight decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1962, Doyle is one of the world's foremost auctioneers and appraisers of fine art, jewelry, furniture, decorations, Asian works of art, coins, stamps, rare books and a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Invaluable is the world’s largest online marketplace of fine and decorative arts, antiques and collectibles, featuring a live online bidding platform that allows collectors and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1994, FINE+RARE has grown into one of world’s largest fine wine merchants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Operating since 1826, Lyon & Turnbull is one of the longest established fine art and antiques auction houses in the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Drouot est la plus ancienne institution de ventes aux enchères publiques au monde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aguttes, the Art and Passion of Transmission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Now in its third century of business, established in 1820, Acker is the oldest and most respected wine shop in America, the largest global wine auction house, and the preeminent…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAJAN Chaque année, TAJAN organise une soixantaine de ventes spécialisées et cataloguées ainsi que de nombreuses ventes classiques, procurant aux amateurs d’art et de beaux objets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dreweatts 1759 is a leading UK auctioneer of Fine Art, Furniture and Works of Art, European and Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, Jewellery, Watches, Silver, Clocks, Wine, Live…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chiswick Auctions is a leading West London auction house, specialising in fine art, antiques, and collectables across all eras and mediums.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata a Milano nel 1974 e con sede a Palazzo Crivelli, nel cuore di Brera, Il Ponte Casa d’Aste è una delle principali case d’asta in Italia, attiva nel mercato dell’arte e del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: wine auction houses. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names wine auction houses.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of wine auction houses, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name wine auction houses. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Wine auction houses worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among wine auction houses, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for wine auction houses are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “wine auction houses”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names wine auction houses), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among wine auction houses, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,773 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Wine auction houses by location
7 lists · largest firstEvery Wine auction houses list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Wine auction houses based in the United States181
- Wine auction houses based in France146
- Wine auction houses based in the United Kingdom119
- Wine auction houses based in Germany52
- Wine auction houses based in Italy34
- Wine auction houses based in Belgium28
- Wine auction houses based in the Netherlands27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names wine auction houses, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many wine auction houses are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 859 wine auction houses worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sotheby's, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most wine auction houses?
The United States leads with 181 companies, followed by France (146) and the United Kingdom (119). Every wine auction houses list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most wine auction houses?
Paris leads with 44 headquartered companies, followed by London (26) and Bordeaux (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,773 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 859 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.