Page 17 - Invest into Wine
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- February 08, 2017
The Liv-ex 1000 Index – the broadest measure of the fine wine market – closed January 2017 at another all-time high of 301.24. This is an increase of 0.5% on December’s close of 299.80. The index has now reached record highs for six consecutive months and is up 21.5% year-on-year. Among the Liv-ex 1000 sub-indices, […]
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- February 08, 2017
The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index closed January at 301.88, up 1.25% on the previous month. The index has now risen for an unprecedented fourteen consecutive months and is up 25.3% year-on-year. It is now at its highest point since October 2011, when it closed at 308.03. The biggest movers last month came from a […]
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- February 08, 2017
On 20th January 2017, noted teetotaler Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States. The decisions that he makes will help to shape the world – so what effect will they have on wine? Trump is, after all, the man who once said, “I never understood why people don’t go after the alcohol […]
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- February 08, 2017
The words ‘New World Order’ seem to be hanging over us all right now like an intrusive movie score. In less than two weeks, the new resident of the White House has made it clear that we can no longer take anything for granted. If he and his circle want to deny millions of people […]
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- February 08, 2017
One of the alleged ringleaders in an organised crime gang that sold 400 bottles of fake DRC wines in Europe should be sentenced to at least two years in prison with a hefty fine, a state prosecutor has argued at a court hearing in Burgundy. But a defence lawyer denied his client’s involvement in the […]
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- February 08, 2017
Planning to join in on Chinese New Year celebrations? Decanter restaurant critic Fiona Beckett gives tips for pairing wines with popular Chinese dishes, from a Western perspective. What to drink on any given occasion depends where you come from so we in Europe and the US have a different perception of the kind of wines […]
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- February 03, 2017
I’m paying a bill from one of the warehouses where I cellar wine when I hear a little voice in my head whisper ominously to me: Why would any sane person even bother starting a wine collection today? The compounding wine warehousing bills, not to mention my motley crew of wine fridges in the garage, […]
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- February 03, 2017
British Prime Minister Teresa May’s announcement yesterday that the UK is heading for a ‘hard’ Brexit – with no automatic access to the European single market – surprised nobody. But it provided a lot of food for thought to members of the wine industry, and not just in the British Isles. Mike Veseth, the ‘Wine […]
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- February 01, 2017
January 2017 Wine Investment Report December month was positive for both Bordeaux and other regions of the wine market. December is normally a slower month due to fewer trading days for the holiday season, nevertheless the numbers still proved a positive outcome for the period. Bordeaux wines showed an increase of 0.72% in January versus […]
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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 […]
