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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  Pierre Emmanuel Taittinger has said that he is pulling out of the race to be French president, according to comments reported widely in the France press today (22 July). Taittinger was reported as saying that he would not run in the French presidential elections in 2017, due to personal matters. ‘A serious personal event […]

Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger has caused a stir in French media after announcing that he intends to run for French president. He was quoted in the l’Union newspaper in Champagne as announcing his candidature for France’s president election in 2017. Taittinger is currently president of the eponymous Champagne house. He previously told Decanter that he planned to […]

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Château Moulinet, a 16.8 hectare wine estate in Pomerol located close to Château de Sales, is the Beijing investor’s first Bordeaux estate purchase, according to DecanterChina.com, sister site of Decanter.com. It will now form part the group of estates jointly run by associates including Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese online retailer Alibaba, and […]

Growing numbers of the UK’s fine wine merchants are reporting a post-Brexit boost in demand, but they are also wary that the cost of replenishing their cellars with top wines from Europe could be significantly more expensive. Where is the demand coming from? It is predominantly fine wine lovers and also merchants overseas who are […]

The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rose for the seventh consecutive month in June. The index closed the month on 259.71, up 2.12% on May’s closing level of 254.31. The First Growths also saw prices rise: the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 closed on 292.16, up 2.5% on last month. It was generally a good month for […]

When Bollinger staff cleaned out a gallery of its cellar under the house in Aÿ stacked with old, empty bottles, they made a remarkable discovery. Hidden for decades, they unearthed an incredible collection of some 600 bottles, the youngest of which was found to be 1921 and the oldest, 1830.   19th century Bollinger Champagnes […]

Is there really anything else that we can write about this week? I am more heartbroken and frustrated than I can remember being. As a British person living in Europe, this was a result that I neither expected nor wanted. But it’s now almost a week on, and reality is setting in. And even for […]

In four days’ time, we will know the result of the UK’s referendum on continuing membership of the European Union. I’d like to write that the referendum ‘will be over’ – but that depends on the margin of victory for the winning side.  The debate has been so divisive and so toxic, the arguments so […]

The Bordeaux 2015 en primeur campaign, now in its endgame, should turn out to be the most exciting and profitable for many years. It is certainly the most talked-about – and the most divisive. Last week saw a flurry of major releases: Cos d’Estournel ($135 per bottle ex-negoce), Margaux ($432), Angelus ($284), Pavie ($284), Haut-Brion […]

An interesting chart was posted by the London Vintners exchange this morning, I just had to send you a copy. This is a chart of the percentage increases for the 2015 vintages in comparison to the 2014 vintages. I sent you last week the actual percentages for the first growths which showed massive price increases, […]

The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index has risen for the sixth consecutive month, the first time it has done so since March 2011. It closed May on 254.31, up 1.56 points (0.62%) on April’s closing level of 252.75. The index’s gain bucked the trend of recent years where the Liv-ex 100 has dipped during the […]

French president François Hollande has officially opened Bordeaux’s 80-million-euro Cité du Vin wine centre, despite a backdrop of national strikes plus protests at the venue from campaigners against pesticide use in vineyards.     Hollande took to the stage alongside one of his main political enemies, Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppé, to officially open the Bordeaux […]

Another rash of releases this week has seen some of the biggest names of Bordeaux show their hands, as price rises continue to mark the 2015 en primeur campaign.   Among the most significant Bordeaux en primeur rise has been Chateau Canon 2015 from St-Emilion, up 55% to €60 ex-Bordeaux from its 2014 price of […]

A secret stash of rare wines worth 1m euros has been found in a Czech castle that once belonged to suspected Nazi sympthasisers, according to Coravin, which has offered its wine access system to assess the cellar’s quality.   Château d’Yquem and Corton Charlemagne from 1892 were just two of the 133 bottles of fine […]

José Mourinho will have the chance to renew his fine wine friendship with Sir Alex Ferguson after being appointed Manchester United manager. José Mourinho was pictured buying wine from Hedonism in central London yesterday, just hours before Manchester United confirmed today (27 May) that he would be the club’s new manager on a three-year deal. […]

An auction of nearly 1,500 wines from Burgundy’s exclusive Domaine de la Romanée-Conti estate has been overshadowed by concerns raised over the authenticity of a small number of wines sourced for the sale. Baghera Wines removed ‘five or six lots’ before its Geneva auction over the weekend, according to a report by The Independent newspaper, […]