and what it means to you
07.09.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – There has been much comment in recent days about the 2009 vintage which, would you know it, has reached its 10th anniversary. Most observations are a reminder of how fabulous the vintage is and how euphoric most critics were when it went into barrel, and how prices have fared […]
28.02.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – Our recent explorations into the wider reaches of the market, with particular reference to Burgundy, have given rise to a lot of enquiries about whether there is any secondary market light at the end of the tunnel for a vast range of esoteric wines that unsuspecting people have been […]
21.02.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – Further to last week’s note we have received quite a bit of correspondence along the lines of: “I thought you didn’t trust Burgundy, so why are you now recommending it”, so we thought it best to clarify our position. It wouldn’t have behoved our continuing to ignore such a […]
15.02.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – New year, new destination for Amphora’s intrepid Senior Management team as we made our debut recently in Chandigarh, the “Garden City” about 4 hours by train north of Delhi. It is very encouraging for fine wine investors to know that there are so many places where the concept is […]
30.01.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – It is always quite easy to hope that physical assets offer a port in a storm at times of crisis in the investment world, but the last three months have served as a reminder that fine wine is also a luxury good and cannot totally escape both the benefits […]
24.01.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – One of the questions we at Amphora are always asked these days concerns the impact Brexit is having and might have on the fine wine investment market. When you are investing in anything at all it is important to keep your emotions at bay, because nothing is more guaranteed […]
09.01.2019 – Fine Wine Investment – At the start of this year we thought we might put Amphora under the spotlight and ask its CEO and Heads of Sales, Trading, and Research for their thoughts on 2019: David Jackson (CEO): Anticipates a significant contraction of the polarised Burgundy market A decade or so ago, […]
13.12.2018 – Fine Wine Investment – Further to last week’s note which focussed on wines whose prices have come under what seems to be undue pressure during the recent index downturn, we now extend the study to underperformers year-to-date. We would stress of course that any date you place on a performance table is totally […]
26.11.2018 – Fine Wine Investment – Over the last 3 months the Liv-ex 50 has slipped the best part of 2.5% which as far as the fine wine market is concerned represents something of a correction. In terms of this particular index the market has given back all the year’s gains. The broader your perspective […]
15.11.2018 – Fine Wine Investment – At the end of October in his Bordeaux Report Gavin Quinney wrote about the 2018 vintage, and quite an exciting vintage it looks too. Very helpfully Mr Quinney goes into considerable detail about the prevalent climatic conditions, rather recalling an excellent note written over 25 years ago by an […]
01.11.2018 – Fine Wine Investment – Last week the Liv-ex announced that the total value of bids and offers on its platform had reached an all-time high at over £50m. It is worth pausing to reflect on the implications of this. In the early years of the century volumes were in the lower single digit […]
25.10.2018 – Fine Wine Investment – There has been a lot of talk recently in fine wine investment circles about the performance of some of the classic Bordeaux vintages, wines which the Liv-ex captures to a great extent in the Bordeaux Legends sub-index. At a time when all roads have seemed to lead to Burgundy, […]