Buying Today For Tomorrow's Market - Making Your Wine Investment Count


by FrederickAchom - Date: 2010-05-27 - Word Count: 379 Share This!

The aim of bedding down fine wine is to secure wine of limited production and supply which will be increasingly difficult to find in tomorrow's market. Making sure your wine investment works will be the difference of making serious money from the venture or not making as much as you should.

Over the last quarter of a century fine wines have proven to be a consistently stable, high yielding and low risk investment. Moreover, records going back many decades show that fine wine has remained generally unaffected by stock market fluctuations and interest rate changes.

Traditional wisdom is to buy 'first growth' Bordeaux, also known as 'Blue Chip' wines. These are the likes of Lafite-Rothschild, Latour, Haut-Brion, Mouton- Rothschild and Margaux, also Le Pin, Pétrus and Cheval Blanc.

Other wines to consider from the Bordeaux region are the 'second growths', better known as the 'super seconds', these are estates that have proven their quality over more recent years. These are the likes of La Mission-Haut-Brion, Leoville Las Cases and Montrose.
Buying wine from a good vintage year from one of Bordeaux's top Châteaux usually limits risk, as they are consistent in quality and there is always a demand. While this approach has proven to be prudent over the years, there are alternatives, which can be just as rewarding but more speculative.

'En Primeur' (Wine Futures)

Another good alternative that can be considered when selecting wine to lay down, is to buy at the 'En primeur' stage. This is wine still in the barrel (undergoing the aging process), before bottled or released on the open market. It is also referred to as 'wine futures' because the wine is bought in ad- vance at a fixed price. It usually works out cheaper but no one knows how well the wine will mature.

'En primeur' tasting takes place every year in Bordeaux either at the end of March or the first week in April. For example, the 'En primeur' tasting of the 2001 vintage took place in March 2002. Most wines sold this way are classified growths or wines from very well known Châteaux. 'En primeur' sales account for approximately 3-5% of the total Bordeaux wine production. Opting for 'En primeur' wine is speculative but some see it as the only way to acquire vintage Bordeaux at affordable prices.

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