Monthly Archives: August 2022
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Posted: August 09, 2022Categories: Bordeaux
Read more »It's about time that you think of the best wines as liquid yet hard assets. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary insights. 2022 has been a tough year for investors. Bonds and stocks have sold off in tandem. Real estate is also starting to wobble. Have you got wine in your portfolio?
Last weekend (August 6 & 7), the Financial Times published an article on the front page highlighting that fine wine is passing the test as hedge against inflation. If you wonder how fine wine has performed over the past 20 years, here’s a chart by Liv-ex showing two indices: one is a basket of the top 100 wines, the other is a basket of the top 1000 wines. Both have performed positively.
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Posted: August 05, 2022Categories: Bordeaux
Read more »Winemakers, by default, are in love with their land, and, by extension, everything that grows on it. We mean everything, even weeds, which is a byproduct and feature of the soil the biodynamic farming movement has come to embrace. But we can think of only one winemaker who loves his trees so much that he names every wine he makes after trees. Yes, we are talking about Jacques Thienpont, the legendary winemaker of Le Pin (“Pine”), L’If (“Yew”), and L’Hêtre (“Beech”).
You may have heard of Le Pin, one of the most coveted (ahem, expensive) wines from Bordeaux, and any wine-producing region in the world, for that matter. Le Pin is proof that sometimes the
