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Early Bordeaux harvest fuelling excitement

Date posted: September 25, 2009

The eagerly expected Bordeaux 2009 vintage got off to an early start with the Pessac Léognan estate Château Carbonnieux commencing their harvest on August 27, at least a week ahead of the normal September harvest date.

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Liv-ex indices rising, led by Lafite

Date posted: September 8, 2009

Just a few years ago, fine wines investment was considered a niche market, with very few investors. However, the global financial meltdown has seen more investors scrambling to find safer investment opportunities and, in the process, have started investing more heavily in fine wines. Many sceptics thought that this wouldn’t last. But in an unexpected development, fine wines have continued to outperform stock indices in both the UK and the US. Read full story...

Top 10 Bordeaux labels by famous artists

Date posted: August 28, 2009

From the bottle to the canvas and back…here we look at 10 beautiful designs from famous artists on vintages from the world-famous Chateaux Mouton Rothschild….enjoy!
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Bordeaux Wine: Greenpeace highlights climate change threat

Date posted: August 17, 2009

When the French delegation sits down at the UN summit on climate change in Helsinki in December, they will have an added reason to press for a solution to the threat of climate change. The French wine industry, the world’s largest, could be a major victim of global warming - or so Greenpeace claims. The environmental group, along with some 50 winemakers and chefs, penned an open letter that was published in the highly influential French newspaper “Le Monde”. Read full story...

Why steal a bottle of Bordeaux?

Date posted: August 13, 2009

Bordeaux wine was been in the news recently. A single bottle of the 1945 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild (one of very few bottles available worldwide and estimated to be worth £12,000), along with three other less notable wines, was stolen from a wine store in Hopkinton, near Boston (Massachusetts) in a classic ‘distract and grab’ theft. Fortunately for the store owners, the vintage wine was restored unopened and undamaged.
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