Monthly Archives: February 2016
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- February 26, 2016
Chinese billionaire, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, buys Bordeaux Château de Sours Jack Ma, China’s second richest person and founder of multi-billion dollar online retailer Alibaba, has become the latest Chinese investor to buy a Bordeaux wine estate with Château de Sours. * China’s Alibaba founder buys Bordeaux château spanning 80 hectares * Ma’s […]
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- February 25, 2016
Wine Storage Are you considering fine wine as an investment? Are you storing your wine portfolio correctly? Is your broker storing it correctly for you? Do you know exactly where your wines are being stored? Have you in fact done any due diligence or even checked online, the warehouse where your wine is being stored? […]
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- February 25, 2016
How to read wine tasting notes Wine tasting notes do not have to be as mysterious as they sometimes seem. Below, Decanter experts talk you through some of the main terms, with the help of a graphic created by Decanter’s design team. Do you ever find it difficult to read wine tasting notes? Wine tasting […]
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- February 24, 2016
The other Mondavi: Charles Krug Winery’s Peter Mondavi turns 96 Peter Mondavi discusses wine, age, the ‘crazy’ prices of premium Napa – and what it was like to be the ‘quiet one’ in the shadow of his big-spending older brother While Robert Mondavi was celebrated as the Father of Napa, his younger brother Peter […]
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- February 24, 2016
Bordeaux 2006: performance of the First Growths As we enter the tenth year since the 2006 vintage, Liv-ex will be examining the performance of the wines in a series of short blog posts. These posts will examine price variations – the highest and lowest Market Prices against the current and release prices – for wines […]
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- February 23, 2016
Plan to build the right fine wine portfolio James Pala MD Sure Holdings [ct_button url=”https://twitter.com/JamesPala1″ color=”#FFFFFF” background=”#666666″ gradient=”#444444″ description=”” size=”small” position=”left” icon=”twitter” target=”” rel=””]Twitter[/ct_button] I hope you are keeping well and healthy and 2016 has started off well for you and your family. At some point in your life, whether it is today while reading […]
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- February 20, 2016
2016: Strong start for fine wine Fine wine has been looking robust compared to several other financial assets and physical commodities so far this year. In 2016, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 index, which tracks the daily price movements of the ten most recent vintages of the Bordeaux First Growths, has gained 2.01% while the FTSE […]
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- February 18, 2016
Champagne propels French wine exports to record in 2015 New figures show that French wine exports reached record value last year, mainly thanks to Champagne. Overall French wine sales abroad in 2015 reached nearly €7.93bn, show statistics released by the French federation of wine and spirits exporters (FEVS). Accounting for inflation, that means exports […]
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- February 17, 2016
Talking Trade: 29th January – 4th February The Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 continued to rise this week and was up 0.2% at 270.37, its highest level since July 2015. There was a good volume of trade in Bordeaux across the whole of January helping to push the Bordeaux 500 index to its highest level since […]
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- February 15, 2016
Best wine for investment Are you thinking of investing into wine but not sure which wines are the best wines for investment? Choosing the best wines for investment does require some basic research and understanding of the fine wine market. Its good to familiarize yourself with the different classifications of wine that are produced under […]
