Loving brother builds glassy home from 12,000 champagne bottles A Russian builder has guaranteed himself a champagne lifestyle after constructing a house out of 12,000 empty bottles of bubbly. But it was a family tragedy that saw Eldar Ilchibayev create the remarkable local landmark in the snowy western Ural Mountains. The bottle house realises the…
Liv-ex 1000 continues to climb The Liv-ex 1000 Index – the broadest measure of the fine wine market – closed January 2017 at another all-time high of 301.24. This is an increase of 0.5% on December’s close of 299.80. The index has now reached record highs for six consecutive months and is up 21.5% year-on-year.…
Liv-ex 100 gains 1.25% in January The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index closed January at 301.88, up 1.25% on the previous month. The index has now risen for an unprecedented fourteen consecutive months and is up 25.3% year-on-year. It is now at its highest point since October 2011, when it closed at 308.03. The biggest…
Will President Trump be good or bad for wine? On 20th January 2017, noted teetotaler Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States. The decisions that he makes will help to shape the world – so what effect will they have on wine? Trump is, after all, the man who once said, “I…
New challenges to the old wine order The words ‘New World Order’ seem to be hanging over us all right now like an intrusive movie score. In less than two weeks, the new resident of the White House has made it clear that we can no longer take anything for granted. If he and his…
Fake DRC wine: Prosecutor demands prison for alleged gang member One of the alleged ringleaders in an organised crime gang that sold 400 bottles of fake DRC wines in Europe should be sentenced to at least two years in prison with a hefty fine, a state prosecutor has argued at a court hearing in Burgundy.…
Wines to drink with Chinese food Planning to join in on Chinese New Year celebrations? Decanter restaurant critic Fiona Beckett gives tips for pairing wines with popular Chinese dishes, from a Western perspective. What to drink on any given occasion depends where you come from so we in Europe and the US have a different…
How to Know You Own Your Wine With fine wine investments, a question most commonly asked is “How do I know that I own my wine?” This question is asked often by new investors. It’s a very valid and pertinent question as investors genuinely want and need to know what wines do they own in their portfolios.…
On Bordeaux Futures & the Future of Wine Collecting I’m paying a bill from one of the warehouses where I cellar wine when I hear a little voice in my head whisper ominously to me: Why would any sane person even bother starting a wine collection today? The compounding wine warehousing bills, not to mention…
