Posts Tagged Mouton Rothschild

  • Fine wine goes well with a balanced portfolio

    Posted By : Daniel Kiernan on June 1st, 2011

    Location : wine

    Fine wine goes well with a balanced portfolio

    As the best vintages outperform every asset but gold, Julian Knight goes to Bordeaux to get a taste of the business.

    The two-storey country house, modest compared with the other châteaux of the area, sits proudly underneath a perfect wide blue sky, surrounded by neatly trimmed vines festooned with lush red roses which would be any horticulturalist’s dream.

    I am in Bordeaux, the spiritual home not just of French but world wine making. Opposite me, examining a vine with dexterity and not a small degree of tenderness, is Oliver Be…

  • Record month for fine wine investment

    Posted By : Daniel Kiernan on February 13th, 2011

    Location : wine

    Record month for fine wine investment

    January was a record month for fine wine investment with the Liv-ex 100 rising by 2.9 per cent and the Claret Chip by 3.4 per cent.Year-on-year, the indices were up 40.8 per cent and 52.4 per cent with the positive returns coming at a time when most stock markets were relatively weak.

    The Wine Investment Fund (TWIF) claimed evidence has emerged that the market is in a new phase in terms of favoured brands.

    Lafite, in particular, has underperformed the other first growths for two months in a row, and at precisely the time when Chine…