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- January 27, 2017
A Chinese food and restaurant group has bought Domaine de Bellair on Bordeaux’s Right Bank and plans to use the wine to supply its businesses across Asia. Golden Field, a multinational food and drink company based in China and Taiwan, is the latest in a succession of Asian investors in Bordeaux wine. A fee for Domaine […]
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- January 25, 2017
Jane Anson looks beyond proclamations that ‘Bordeaux is back’ and analyses the numbers to see what might be in store for the region’s wines ahead of the 2016 en primeur season, particularly in a UK market preparing to throw itself into the Brexit quagmire. At the end of December 2016, a spate of reports fluttered […]
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- January 01, 2017
December 2016 Wine Investment Report This month showed another increase in the fine wine market. Data from the London Vintners Exchange Index showed strong performance for the month of November. Our valuations also showed a positive increase in line with the index results. Bordeaux wines showed an increase of 0.89% in December versus November and […]
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- December 01, 2016
November 2016 Wine Investment Report Data on the fine wine market according to the London Vintners exchange AND our monthly valuations showed another increase in the fine wine market in November versus Octobers prices. This month showed exceptional gains, with performance in many first growth Bordeaux Vintages. Bordeaux maintains the lions share of the market […]
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- October 06, 2016
Bordeaux’s ‘driest summer since 1893’ means concerns about water stress but producers are feeling good compared to their cousins in Burgundy as the 2016 red harvest gets underway. The harvest for Bordeaux 2016 reds is now fully underway with Merlot grapes arriving in cellars across the region. But, with no rain forecast for the next […]
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- September 20, 2016
You might remember that not so long ago, Chateaux Angélus and Pape Clement were putting on demonstrations for groups of journalists of de-stemming grapes by hand. Lines of women in gleaming white gloves with violet-stained fingertips stood around tables in quiet corners of the vineyards, heads bent with frowns of concentration. It was pitched as […]
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- September 08, 2016
In brief: Thomas Sullivan buys 30 hectares including Château Gaby in AOC Fronsac, Château Moya in AOC Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux and Château du Parc in AOC St-Emilion Grand Cru Price not released but expected to be between €8 million and €12 million Thomas Sullivan, billionaire founder of Lumber Liquidators and Cabinets to Go […]
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- September 07, 2016
The Liv-ex 1000 Index – the broadest measure of the fine wine market – closed August 2016 at record high of 281.62. This is an increase of 3.04% on the July’s close. The index previously reached a high of 279.69 in July 2011 at the peak of the China-led bull market. It then fell 13.3% […]
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- September 05, 2016
How the Bordeaux 2016 white harvest is shaping up Château Haut-Brion in Pessac Léognan brought in Sauvignon Blanc grapes at 7am on 1 September, from a plot called Pinson Sapinette. The estate reported potential alcohols on this first plot of 13.5%abv, with pHs of 3.25, and expect to bring in the first Merlots on 15 […]
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- 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 […]
