Capital Vintners

Capital Vintners

Fine wine: strength in the face of adversity

The fine wine market has always been good at maintaining stability during times of economic uncertainty – in fact, that’s what it does best. During the recession of 2007/8, the S&P 500 fell by 38.5% while the Liv-ex 1000 kept its head above water at only -0.6%. Why? As well as being a tangible asset, […]

Price movement of Bordeaux fine wines boosted by non-first growth 2012s

Last week brought the news that, for the first time since the market’s peak in 2011, the Bordeaux 500 is now the best performing sub-index of the Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000. The world’s most revered wine-making region owes this recent success principally to non-first growth wines, of which the 2012 vintage specifically has proved very […]

Fizzy February: Champagne sparkles as Fine Wine 100 makes biggest gains in over a year

February has followed in January’s footsteps and proved a corking month for fine wine investment, featuring prestige cuvée Champagnes among the top performing ranks. The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index, which tracks price movements for the 100 most sought-after investment-grade wines, is now up 4.1% from its lowest point in July 2014. The Bordeaux First […]

DRC tops Sotheby’s list of best-selling investment wines for third year in a row

Burgundy’s flagship estate has topped the charts of Sotheby auction house’s best-selling fine wine producers, at both retail and auction, for the third consecutive year. Sotheby’s made US$60.4 million in total from fine wine sales in 2015 – a mere six bottles of 1990 DRC sold in Hong Kong for a whopping US$158,000. Overall DRC […]

Second Growth Bordeaux wines dominate trade by value on the fine wine market

The 2005 vintage of Chateau Montrose, an estate in the St Estephe appellation of the Médoc, and Cheval Blanc 2006, a wine ranked among the top four growers of St Emilion (pictured above), were the stars of last week’s trade by value on Liv-ex, London’s fine wine market place. In fact, second growths like these […]

Latest fine Champagne release Krug 2002 deemed “a purebred stallion”

Drinkers, collectors and merchants all over London spent the month of January waiting with baited breath for Krug 2002 to arrive on the market. Champagne’s latest release went on sale on February 1st and has caused a storm of excitement, with chef de caves Eric Lebel dubbing it “a purebred stallion” of “assertive” and “muscular” […]

Fine Wine in Your Cellar? Get it valued!

Many people decide to collect fine wine as a hobby more than to make an investment; but what if this hobby became a very smart way of making quick legitimate easy money? Well it could well do, in fact there are many prestigious people doing just this. So if you have fine wine in your […]

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