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En Primeur 🍷 📈 Investing in Bordeaux En Primeur offers early access to newly released vintages, providing a chance to procure wine directly from producers before broader market availability. This practice, common in esteemed wine regions like Bordeaux, presents several advantages, including access to rare wines at initial release prices, opportunities to secure allocations of highly sought-after vintages, and the assurance of provenance. When looking at wines from an investment point of view, we consider various factors including scoring, critics' reviews, past vintages, and branding Critics’ Reviews: Highly acclaimed wines endorsed by such critics often command premium prices. For example: • The 1989 Chateau Haut Brion Blanc, awarded a perfect score of 100 by Robert Parker, commands £2,000 per bottle • The 2005 Chateau Ausone, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, earning 100 points from The Wine Advocate, fetches £1,200 per bottle. Top Vintages: • Vintage: 1949, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1982 • More Recent Vintages: 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018 and 2019 left bank Classification: The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 divides estates into First to Fifth Growth based on prestige and market value First Growth Wines (Premier Cru) represent the highest tier: 🥇 Château Haut-Brion Château Lafite Rothschild Château Latour Château Margaux Château Mouton Rothschild Second Growth Wines, often referred to as "super seconds," boast promising investment potential. A few to note: 🥈 Château Cos d’Estournel Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Château La Mission Château Montrose Château Léoville-Poyferré 5th Growth Wines, despite their accessible prices, frequently demonstrate remarkable investment potential. 🏅 Château Pontet-Canet Château Lynch-Bages Château Batailley Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste Château Lynch-Bages for example. In essence, Bordeaux En Primeur investments offer a diverse array of opportunities, enabling investors to capitalise on the allure and prestige of Bordeaux's finest offerings, whether it's the revered First Growth estates, the promising Second Growth producers, or the accessible yet formidable 5th Growth wines. Are you securing a case this campaign? ? ✅ #investing #assurance #quality #enprimeur #future

2004 Krug Vintage – Attractive pricing on magical wine🍾 With a fresh upgrade to 98 points and a drinking window that extends to 2050, this 2004 stands as a top cuvée with great investment potential.   The price is currently 18% lower than just a few years ago, making it an attractive investment opportunity - especially considering that the last ten vintages of Krug Vintage that have been on the market for at least five years have yielded an average return of 48.7% in five years.   This equates to an average annual return of 8.3%. And this is a performance that also includes the last year and a half of price corrections in the wine market.   Want to secure an investment in this champagne legend? Read more below!

Chateau d’Armailhac 2009 & 2012: The colour is in both cases medium ruby. On the nose also pretty similar. Both display an aroma of herbs, red and black berries, with the addition of leather and tobacco for the 2009, and coffee and chocolate for the 2012. In the mouth they are both very elegant. The tannins of the 2012 are edgier. The aftertaste medium long in both cases. This the first impression, with the bottles just opened. After a while, the superiority of the 2009 vintage clearly shows off. In fact, 2009 was a great year for Bordeaux, while the 2012 is considered a classic vintage. The 2009 vintage is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The 2012 is a blend of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. Château Mouton d’Armailhacq was classified as a Fifth Growth in the famous 1855 classification drawn up by Bordeaux wine brokers. Count Adrien de Ferrand, "son-in-law of Armailhacq", acquired the estate in 1878. Following the difficulties created by mildew, phylloxera, WWI and the 1929 crash, in 1930 some Médoc’s Chateaux were auctioned or sold off cheaply. In this financially difficult context for the entire vineyard, in 1931 the Count of Ferrand created the “Société anonyme du Domaine de Mouton d'Armailhacq”. A back then young Baron Philippe de Rothschild became a minority shareholder. In 1933 he bought all the shares. In 1956 Mouton d’Armailhacq was renamed Mouton Baron Philippe, then Mouton Baronne Philippe until the vintage 1988. In 1989 Baroness Philippine decided to restore Mouton d’Armailhacq to its original identity and renamed it Château d’Armailhac. I bought both wines En Primeur. I paid 39.20 EUR for the 2012 and 46.80 EUR for the 2009. Nowadays they sell for 60 EUR (+50%), respectively 80 EUR (+70%). An appreciation of roughly 3.8% a year each.

Some top Bordeaux wines are out of the budget for ordinary people. Not this year. 2023 has been defined by price cuts of 20% to 30% compared to last year. As Fabrice Georges put it, “This is one of the best opportunities to purchase en primeurs since 2019.” So how did we get here? A couple of reasons. 🍇 A Healthy Harvest Both banks averaged 40 to 50 hectoliters per hectare. In comparison, the 2021 and 2022 vintages were closer to 25 to 35 hectoliters per hectare. 💰 Downward Price Pressure Our winery relations manager Olivier Bouchard noted that the fine wine industry needs a jolt to the value chain. More attractive prices can entice buyers. ⚖️ Heterogeneous Vintage The 2023 vintage is good but uneven. The combination of a hot summer and mildew meant some wineries performed better than others. Navigating 2023 En Primeur There’s no shortage of great opportunities. Some of our early favorites include Château Montrose and Château Cheval Blanc. Meanwhile, it was an excellent year for whites with Pavillon Blanc from Château Margaux really wowing us.  #bordeaux #enprimeur #2023bordeauxenprimeur

Champagnes always go up 🍾📈 This is a theory I have heard a lot in the wine trade, especially in reference to prestige cuvee… but can it really be that easy? I asked the WineFi 🍷 data. Champagne - as a region - has one of the highest price-age correlations at around 35%, as a Champagne gets older its price tends to increase. This alone is perhaps not all that interesting, until you see that Burgundy and Bordeaux have much lower price-age correlations. You’d think the wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux would have more reason to increase in value as they age and their flavour profiles develop. If it’s not age per se driving Champagne prices up, what is the causation, where is the squeeze on supply and demand? 🤔 I think there might be something to the idea that Champagnes are often drunk young, often before they reach their drinking window. By the time they are older there are very few left. Champagnes have sex appeal. Their brands — Dom Perignon, Louis Roederer, Veuve Clicquot, Bollinger, Salon — bridge the gap between fine wine and popular culture. 🥂 The discerning Burgundy connoisseur is much more likely to wait for a wine to reach its drinking window than a party-goer in Ibiza or the French Riviera. Expensive Champagne is a status symbol, even to those who pronounce the 'x' in Bordeaux. On the supply side, Champagnes aren’t produced every vintage. Even with NV (non-vintage) Champagnes increasingly being seen as investment opportunities, perhaps the supply of Champagne simply cannot meet demand. If this is the case, how good are Champagne returns and who are the best performers? We refined our dataset to a selection of the most liquid 600 investment-grade Champagnes. The average annualised returns (CAGR) was 11% and the highest-performing producers were Egly-Ouriet, Jacques Selosse, Salon and Krug. The Egly-Ouriet, Brut Millesime Grand Cru achieved average annualised returns (CAGR) of 33%. Its 2009 vintage for example traded at £1000 (per 12x75 case) in May 2020. Today the best price online is £5,100 📣. Jacques Selosse, Millesime — a grower Champagne with limited production quantities — saw an average of 20% returns across vintages. At least 15 Champagne labels out of 35 averaged annual returns (CAGR) of over 15%. Dom Perignon, Krug, Bollinger, Salon, Pol Roger, and Jacques Selosse all appear in this list. So maybe Champagne is a reliable region for long-term returns but to say they always go up is a bit of an overstatement. Without doing proper research, it is possible to bet on the wrong bottle or label. Follow @WineFi for more. Capital at risk. Fine wine is an illiquid asset class and should only form a small part of a well-diversified portfolio.

The wine industry has long equated luxury with exclusivity, but let’s be honest—exclusivity shouldn’t mean inaccessible. If I can buy a Louis Vuitton bag online, why should buying wine from a top-tier winery feel so complicated? I loved the article in Robb Report by Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen which dives into the challenges of the traditional allocation system. It’s a must-read for anyone in the industry rethinking what modern luxury should look like. As the head of digital and e-commerce at JFW, I’m proud to lead our efforts to change this. We’re working to modernize how people experience our wines, making the process seamless and enjoyable—because luxury and convenience should go hand in hand. The days of making customers jump through hoops are over. Digital transformation isn’t just an opportunity; it’s a necessity. Let’s reimagine what luxury means for the wine world. What do you think? How can the industry do better? #WineSales #WineDTC #DigitalTransformation #WineIndustry #LuxuryRedefined #EcommerceInnovation #CustomerExperience #RobbReport #WineLovers #ModernLuxury #LuxuryWine #WineMarketing

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) is one of the most expensive wine producers in the world. In a 2018 Sotheby auction, a record $558,000 was paid for a 1945 DRC La Romanée-Conti. Their most expensive label averages £20,000 per bottle on the secondary market. It is produced on the a small plot less than 2 hectares in size, unchanged since 1580. At most 6,000 bottles per vintage are produced. Some more facts about DRC: - The first vintage of was released in 1232! - Only 6,000-8,000 cases in total are produced per year. - The average price of a case of DRC across all labels is £20,000 - In 2016, 5 magnums of 1990 Romanée-Conti sold for $269,500. - It's the only Burgundy domaine producing wine exclusively from Grand Cru vineyards. - Two of their vineyards are 'monopoles' (solely controlled): Romanée-Conti and La Tâche. - The estate has 8 Grand Cru vineyards! - In 2018, DRC began producing Corton-Charlemagne, their second white wine. In special vintages, DRC produces two types of brandy: Fine de Bourgogne and Marc de Bourgogne. Tasters describe a powerful aromas often noting violet and cherry, a deep ruby colour, and an exceptionally smooth, refined taste. Exclusive is an understatement. 

Australia's largest listed wine company Treasury Wine Estates (ASX: TWE) has acquired 75 per cent of Ningxia Stone & Moon Winery for RMB130 million ($27.5 million) as part of plans to grow its luxury wine portfolio in the Chinese market. https://lnkd.in/gs4wuXXm

"Quality first and quality always" is the mantra for so many brands and companies, the test to this is, would you write off an estimated retail value $295 million worth of stock to preseve product quality? Well it is reported that this is what has happened with the 2023 crop of Dom Pérignon Champagne 🍾 In France 🇫🇷. In Champagne, the mainstay is non-vintage bubbles, produced by blending wine from a variety of years. All 370 houses that make sparkling wine in the region offer bottles without years on them—except for one. Dom Pérignon only releases vintage Champagne produced from a single harvest. While other maisons can take the opportunity of a less-than-stellar season to increase their stock of base wines, if the quality of the vintage is not up to snuff there will be no Dom Pérignon. This is exactly what happened in 2023, when after months of grape maturation in the vineyard, a full harvest, and primary fermentation in tank, cellar master Vincent Chaperon didn’t feel the wine met Dom Pérignon’s standards. Realizing the entire 2023 vintage was just not good enough, Chaperon rejected the entire cellar of base wine....the estimated retail cost $295 million. The article below has the full story. #beverages #Champagne #domperignon #wine #grapes #quality #france Wayne Donovan Sophie TUDOT Lars Jensen Paul Villis Carol Dunne Gwyneth Kelly Michel Aubanel Stephen Rannekleiv Bourcard Nesin Francois Sonneville Will Keating John Craven Bryan Roth Mark Gallo Barbara Lezzer Jim Watson Marc LEJEUNE Tiphaine BEAU Elodie Carriere Gilles Halotel Jean Noel Ortal Andrew Wardlaw Michelle Osagie Mark Allen Tobias Gorn IDS Jean-Philippe Delforge