Monthly Archives: August 2016
-
- August 31, 2016
The Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index – tracking the price movements of the ten most recently physical vintages of the Bordeaux First Growths – is currently up 19.3% year to date after seeing some of the strongest upward movements in its history. It has outpaced stocks over this period: FTSE is up 9.2%; the S&P […]
-
- August 27, 2016
The Tuscan Village winery and community complex in Lake County was reduced to ashes by a California wildfire last weekend. Fire crews fought to control the Clayton Fire but were unable to prevent it burning through several buildings owned by Terrill Cellars. Local media said police have charged a man with arson in relation […]
-
- August 19, 2016
Wine investment is likely to become more attractive in post-Brexit Britain, according to 27% of 101 wealth managers and independent financial advisors (IFAs) surveyed by Cult Wines. It said those advisors highlighted two main reasons for a possible rise in wine investment: the fall in the value of sterling greater demand diverse investment assets and […]
-
- August 11, 2016
The growing season is the most complicated Champagne has known since the very difficult season of 1956, said Eric Rodez, winemaker at the family-owned Champagne Rodez in Ambonnay. In spring, late frosts hit the Côte des Bar region, where a quarter of the Champagne vineyards are. Jean Pierre Fleury, winemaker at Champagne Fleury in Courteron […]
-
- August 08, 2016
Balaclava-clad wine terrorists attacked the Biron merchant in Sete overnight, local media reported. They cracked open five vats, sending wine gushing into the nearby streets of the port town. Sete is around 20 minutes by car from Montpellier in Languedoc-Roussillon. Miliants claimed allegiance to the activist winemaker group CRAV, short for Regional Action Committee of […]
-
- August 05, 2016
Vicky Zhao Wei and investors have reportedly agreed to replace Taiwanese actor Leon Dai in a film that Vicky Zhao is directing after Dai failed to clarify his political views – specifically on Taiwan independence. The status of Taiwan is a major faultline in Chinese politics. Vicky Zhao Wei has faced intense criticism on social […]
-
- August 05, 2016
It was supposed to be a vintage – the signs were good, the scores were promising and the market was ready – so how did the Bordeaux First Growths of the 2008 vintage end up meeting such an underwhelming reception? Looking at the situation dispassionately, it should have worked. The “8” in the year suggested […]
-
- August 05, 2016
Professor Daniel Attinger is now working with a team of scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland to develop the non-stop wine machine. His ‘micro winery on a chip’ is capable of continuously producing wine at a rate of one millilitre per hour, according to the university. But, Attinger’s miniature device isn’t intended […]
-
- August 02, 2016
July 2016 Wine Investment Report The fine wine market moves from strength to strength as we report another month of overall increase. This is now the 7th month in concession that the wine market has increased. These figures are not only reported by Sure Holdings but also an increase was reported by the London Vintners Exchange […]
