and what it means to you
Back in August, we wrote some fine wine investment news about how and why fine wine is not a commodity (A Great Face for Radio 25/08/15). Over the last few months, two things have become apparent. The first being that the Bordeaux end of the fine wine investment market has been struggling to make headway, […]
Wine Investment news India. You could be forgiven for thinking that The Sunday Times has just discovered India. At the end of last month Ian Cowie’s headline trumpeted: “China is hyped. India’s the real ray of light.” Then on 8th November in the “Money” section we had Rachel Winter advising investors of a £10,000 nest egg […]
Fine wine investments in Tuscany On this blog, and indeed in much of the wider fine wine investments industry, we hear a lot of talk about wines from Bordeaux. That makes sense, on a good year they constitute anything up to 95 per cent of all investment wine. But whilst wines from other regions don’t […]
Nov 2015 – Wine Investment – Since 2011 fine wine investors have become pretty clear about the impact on high-end Chinese consumption of the ongoing anti-corruption campaign, and over the last three years or so the likes of Pernod Ricard, Remy Cointreau, and LVMH have attributed declining sales to both that and President Xi Jinping’s […]
Amphora clients have been asking us about the “second wines” produced by the First Growth châteaux. We are talking here about Carruades de Lafite, Forts de Latour, Pavillon Rouge (from Margaux), Petit Mouton, and Clarence Haut Brion. Many chateaux produce more than one wine. Historically, any wine which after aging in the barrel was not […]
Investing in passions by Spriha Srivastava ftadviser.com Oct 1st 2015 To view the article as a PDF click here or to view the article on the FT website please click here (Please note this website requires a subscription to view.)
In March (“The Superseconds”) and July (“Super-Sonic-Second Opportunities”) APM highlighted a number of wines from “off-vintage” Supersecond territory that seemed to be trading at the wrong price. The logic behind this is hardly Nobel Prize material: if one producer makes a higher-scoring wine from a superior or equivalent vintage, that wine should trade at a […]
Our travels to Asia last week clearly came at an interesting time, as world stockmarkets were being soundly pummelled by concerns related to the slowdown in China, and the dramatic declines in the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses. China is important for many reasons: it is now the world’s largest consumer of fine wine; it was […]
Something is rotten in the state of Ausone. APM asked a local trader for a price last week and he told us that “Ausone is toxic”. Now, whenever sentiment is that bad against a company and its share price is plummeting, you ask yourself two questions: is the company going bust? Or is this a […]
In March 2014 we wrote a note entitled “Right Bank Shuffle” in which we highlighted the varying attractions of the main four St Emilion wines. Robert Parker recently conducted a “mini vertical” of Angelus and Pavie, so as well as highlighting the results and consequences we thought it might be instructive to see how our […]
Offer: Opus One 2012. £1,750 (First Release Price) Since adding Opus One 2010 to our clients’ portfolios in the spring of 2014, starting the journey at £1,800, we have seen steady progress. The 2010 vintage performed well – which is why we’re so excited by the latest offering from this top-of-the-range American producer. The Opus […]
Any Amphora Portfolio Management clients tuned in to Share Radio at tea-time on Tuesday last fortnight would have been delighted to recognise the dulcet tones of our own James Fletcher, as he was being interviewed on the subject of fine wine investment by Juliette Foster. She asked all the normal questions, of course, but then […]