Spectrum Wine is a global fine and rare wine and wine services firm headquartered in Santa Ana, California with additional offices in Newport Beach, California; Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Spectrum Wine specializes in fine and rare wine auctions, traditional fine and rare wine merchant retail and e-commerce, specialized wine storage, and associated wine services including
inventory, transport, appraisal, and more. Our auction and retail businesses also offer a wide selection of fine, rare, and aged beers, spirits, liqueurs, and other fine foods and beverages. Spectrum Wine traces its history to the founding of Orange County's first wine store - Rolf's Wine & Spirits (first established as Rolf's Grocery) - in Tustin in 1953 by local entrepreneur, sports legend, inventor, and wine pioneer Rolf Engen. Following an early and formidable career in basketball and volleyball (including being recruited to UCLA by legendary 'Wizard of Westwood' John Wooden), Rolf's entrepreneurial passion for wine developed quickly as he found success with his game-changing wine store in Tustin. He duly expanded the original Tustin store in 1956 and later came to expand his retail business to Newport Beach, Placentia, Laguna Hills, Orange, and Irvine. In the 1960s Rolf began traveling to Europe to taste and to source the great wines of France, Italy, and Germany, and he came to be one of the first to import and to sell the great wines of Europe here in Orange County. In 2017, Rolf's Wine & Spirits merged with Orange County-based wine auction house Spectrum Wine Auctions. Spectrum Wine, a nimble, new, 21st-century auction house of fine, rare, collectible, and investment-grade wines led by a deep team of passionate wine specialists and founded as a subsidiary of the Fortune 500-listed auctioneer and global collectibles network Spectrum Group International (SPGZ), had grown rapidly with a global customer list and a consistent series of marquee auctions, including the first sales of the legendary Aubrey McClendon Cellar. Hundreds of extraordinary collections followed, including The Historic Collection of Dr. George Primbs, A Collection of Historic Verticals Direct From the Cellars of Chateau Montelena, The Robert Silverstein Collection, The Doctor’s Pristine OWC Collection, The Pennsylvania Underground Collection, A Major General’s Collection, The Majestic Cellar, The Norman Burnam Collection, The Golden Dragon’s Cellar, The James Burrows Primetime Collection, The Cellar of Dr. Ron Light, The Heart Foundation Collection, Teresa Norton & Tom Paine’s Vineyard 29 Vertical Cellar, The Sea Cliff Collection, The Tower Cellar, The Wine Pioneer’s Cellar, The Zenith Cellar, The Mont Blanc Cellar, The Adios Cellar, The Jupiter Cellar, and so many more. In 2014, Spectrum Wine was taken private by longtime CEO Jason D. We at Spectrum Wine continue proudly to carry on the vision, the tradition, and the passion sparked by Rolf Engen here in Orange County in 1953 well into the 21st century and beyond.
