How Sure Holdings Began – Part 2
How Sure Holdings Began – Part 3
Here is part three from my previous two articles about ‘Who we are’ and ‘what has driven Sure Holdings for the past 15 years’. When we initially ventured into offering wine wine to our clients, we decided to continue the same policy as real estate, by purchasing and investing ourselves in the wines we recommend,…
How Sure Holdings Began – Part 4
Welcome to part 4 of my “How we began and where we are now” series of short articles. I hope these articles are giving you a good insight into how we work for the last 15 years. We have spent many years building and developing an excellent wine investment strategy, analyzing charts, ratings from the best…
Strive for Excellence How Sure Holdings Began – Part 5
This is the final part of a five part series of articles about Sure Holdings and how we began. In this final part, I would like to share with you where we are now and some of our goals for you as a wine investor and client. We made a large investment in several online…
How to Know You Own Your Wine
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.…
Whole bunch winemaking shakes up Bordeaux
Whole bunch winemaking shakes up Bordeaux You might remember that not so long ago, Chateaux Angélus and Pape Clement were putting on demonstrations for groups of journalists of de-stemming grapes by hand. Lines of women in gleaming white gloves with violet-stained fingertips stood around tables in quiet corners of the vineyards, heads bent with frowns…
New iceless ice bucket pitched as luxury must-have
New iceless ice bucket pitched as luxury must-have Wine geekery knows few limits and innovators have long been keen to take bog standard wine paraphernalia and update it. The bottle (interactive), the barrel (intelligent), the cork (air-sucking), and now the ice bucket, which, in one fell swoop it has been rendered void – that is…
G20 wines: What world leaders drank over dinner in China
G20 wines: What world leaders drank over dinner in China China’s president, Xi Jinping, greeted world leaders at the G20 summit with a banquet of local cuisine and Chinese wines. A Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 and a Chardonnay 2012 from the Beijing-based Chateau Changyu AFIP Global were the wines paired with the traditional Hangzhou cuisine. ‘Sweet and…
Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 gains 2.9% in August
Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 gains 2.9% in August The industry benchmark – the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index – increased for the ninth consecutive month in August. It gained 2.9% to close on 276.83. It is now at its highest level since March 2013. The First Growths led the charge with the Liv-ex Fine Wine…