and what it means to you
By Gemma McKenna, harpers.co.uk, 15th Feb 2012.
The fine wine market is expected to grow by 10% in 2012, as strong value buying opportunities for buyers and investors emerge, says a global survey of the wine trade.
By Emma Wall
Telegraph
19 Jul 2011
Unlike other luxury items, such as Rolex watches or Aston Martin cars, the supply of fine wine is fixed.
The Telegraph
By Alison Brown
19 May 2011
An increasing number of investors are looking to make money from the wine industry – particularly in China.
How are your investments doing, if you don’t mind me asking? Does a morning reading of the ups and downs of shares, commodities and currency markets leave jangled nerves?
By Malcolm Moore
The Telegraph
20th April 2011
Bordeaux’s famed vineyards cannot produce enough fine wine to satisfy China’s thirst, the head of one of the region’s most important chateaus has warned.
By Ella Lister
FT.com
Feb 2011
Over the last decade fine wine has categorically staked its claim as a commodity worth investing in.
By James Fletcher
Albany Portfolio Management
With last year so convincingly dominated by Lafite and its siblings, we suspect that the greatest returns this year will – shock, horror – be found elsewhere. That’s not to say we’re feeling bearish about Lafite’s future fortunes – we expect the overall progress to be positive in 2011 – but we do expect things to get a touch choppy as investors take their (hefty!) profits, causing price wobbles here and there and testing the mettle of Lafite lovers.
By James Fletcher
Albany Portfolio Management
September 2010
Important news this week for wine investors: China has finally legalised the importing of sweet desert wine from Bordeaux, including Sauternes, hitherto disalowed due to the high sulphite levels. Consequently, prices for the definitive, undisputed king of noble rot – Chateau d’Yquem (the only wine from the region to be credited with Premier Cru Supérieur status) – are expected to go into orbit.
By James Fletcher
Albany Portfolio Management
September 2010
Just five years ago you could have been the proud owner of a case of 1982 Château Lafite-Rothschild for less than £5,000. Rewind a further five years and it was yours for just £2,500; go back another half decade and a cheeky grand would have done the trick. Today you would be lucky to get change from £40,000.
17 Aug 10
"The Lafite Puzzle" is a particularly interesting article published this month in the China International News Daily paper. The article was written by Andy Xie, a native Chinese independent economist based in Shanghai, and the former Morgan Stanley star chief Asia-Pacific economist.
Xie is both an avid wine lover as well as one of Asia’s most respected economists. He was, in fact, one of the few who’s accurately predicted the economic bubbles including the Asian financial crisis (1997), the dot-com bubble (1999) and the sub-prime mortgage crisis (2008). His views from the ‘inside’ on the impact of China on fine wine are therefore well worth reading.
04 Aug 10
Many of you have expressed an interest in investing in the extraordinary 2009 vintage, but found the hefty entry levels rather too rich
24 May 2010
This summer we are set for a battle royal for the wine investment crown between seemingly uncatchable Château Lafite-Rothschild and mighty Château Latour. Latour, considered by many to be the holy grail of fine claret, is set to come to the very forefront of wine investment
21 May 2010
UK wine merchants face an unprecedented practical problem with this year’s EP campaign: Demand is higher than for any previous vintage (by multiples!) but first tranche allocations will be considerably reduced – the châteaux are expected to release in twelve tranches as opposed to the usual three in order to capitalise on the expected rally in prices. In short, demand will outstrip supply many times over.