Monthly Archives: April 2016
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- April 28, 2016
Is China’s new luxury wine worth $250 a bottle? The makers of a new red blend from China are aiming to lure luxury wine connoisseurs from such established regions as Napa and Bordeaux, betting they’ll spend $250 a bottle on something novel and adventurous I got a sneak preview of the first vintage of the […]
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- April 27, 2016
World wine trade buoyed by rebound in China demand Wine exporters toasted an upturn in Chinese wine consumption in 2015 after a two-year decline, as a growing taste there for reds helped global wine trade expand, the International Vine and Wine organisation (OIV) said on Monday. Chinese imports jumped 44 percent to 5.5 million hectoliters, […]
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- April 27, 2016
Are you Leveraging your Fine Wine Portfolio? What makes a good investment? “Something that makes a profit!” Do you agree? Today in a fast paced world, everyone longs for that magic pill, that shortcut, that break. When you think of fine wine as an investment, do you think of it as a product? Or do […]
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- April 26, 2016
End of an era: Robert Parker relinquishes Bordeaux Robert M. Parker Jr is to relinquish his tasting of Bordeaux to the British-born Neal Martin as of 1 May 2016, according to his PR agency. Martin will take full responsibility for coverage of the wines of Bordeaux, in both the Wine Advocate and at erobertparker.com. The […]
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- April 25, 2016
Emirates ups investment in wine as part of long-term strategy Emirates continues to invest heavily in its world-class wine programme. In 2015, the airline purchased a record of over 13 million bottles of wine worth US$140 million – more than twice the value of wine purchases in the previous year. The wines are for customers […]
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- April 25, 2016
Jack Ma plans new Alibaba wine sales day in China Jack Ma confirmed speculation in the trade about a new, annual Alibaba wine sales day on 9 September during a public discussion with Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi at the Vinitaly show in Verona today (11 April), according to a report by Italian press agency […]
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- April 25, 2016
Bordeaux Cité du Vin auction offers Lafite 1945, lunch at Haut-Brion Many of Bordeaux’s most prestigious châteaux are offering a combination of exclusive tours, lunches and fine wines at a special charity auction to help raise funds for Bordeaux’s wine cultural museum, the Cité du Vin. Lunch at Haut-Brion, Lafite-Rothschild 1945, private tour of Angélus […]
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- April 25, 2016
What a shocker to see the UK exit from the Eurozone! Were you expecting that to happen? I thought the polls usually get it right, but not this time. Since the news broke Friday morning, the pound plummeted from 1.5 down to 1.32, then it snapped back up to 1.36. The FTSE opened down 10% and […]
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- April 25, 2016
The London Vintners exchange just published survey results from merchants around the globe with predictions for the Livex 100 Index for 2017 and according to this survey the bulls are in town. What the survey says -Optimists expect the market to increase 31% -Pessimists expect the market to drop 15% -On average, merchants around the globe […]
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- April 21, 2016
Have you ever considered wine as an investment? Have you ever thought about building a fine wine portfolio as part of your investment strategy? I have created an online wine investor course, I have told the story of my last 15 years in the fine wine investment industry and I didn’t hold anything back at […]
