Chinese billionaire, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, buys Bordeaux Château de Sours Jack Ma, China’s second richest person and founder of multi-billion dollar online retailer Alibaba, has become the latest Chinese investor to buy a Bordeaux wine estate with Château de Sours. * China’s Alibaba founder buys Bordeaux château spanning 80 hectares * Ma’s…
Wine Storage Are you considering fine wine as an investment? Are you storing your wine portfolio correctly? Is your broker storing it correctly for you? Do you know exactly where your wines are being stored? Have you in fact done any due diligence or even checked online, the warehouse where your wine is being stored?…
How to read wine tasting notes Wine tasting notes do not have to be as mysterious as they sometimes seem. Below, Decanter experts talk you through some of the main terms, with the help of a graphic created by Decanter’s design team. Do you ever find it difficult to read wine tasting notes? Wine tasting…
The other Mondavi: Charles Krug Winery’s Peter Mondavi turns 96 Peter Mondavi discusses wine, age, the ‘crazy’ prices of premium Napa – and what it was like to be the ‘quiet one’ in the shadow of his big-spending older brother While Robert Mondavi was celebrated as the Father of Napa, his younger brother Peter…
Bordeaux 2006: performance of the First Growths As we enter the tenth year since the 2006 vintage, Liv-ex will be examining the performance of the wines in a series of short blog posts. These posts will examine price variations – the highest and lowest Market Prices against the current and release prices – for wines…
2016: Strong start for fine wine Fine wine has been looking robust compared to several other financial assets and physical commodities so far this year. In 2016, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 index, which tracks the daily price movements of the ten most recent vintages of the Bordeaux First Growths, has gained 2.01% while the FTSE…
Champagne propels French wine exports to record in 2015 New figures show that French wine exports reached record value last year, mainly thanks to Champagne. Overall French wine sales abroad in 2015 reached nearly €7.93bn, show statistics released by the French federation of wine and spirits exporters (FEVS). Accounting for inflation, that means exports…
Talking Trade: 29th January – 4th February The Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 continued to rise this week and was up 0.2% at 270.37, its highest level since July 2015. There was a good volume of trade in Bordeaux across the whole of January helping to push the Bordeaux 500 index to its highest level since…
