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simmilara — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:20:51 +0100

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Wine brokerages exposed!

The Fine Wine Investor — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0100

Why your fine wine brokerage cannot ever know exactly when you will be paid for your sold-on-wines...

Here’s a question for the fine wine investors out there:

How many times has your broker promised you that a cheque would be in the post for wines you had sold on, that ended-up never arriving?

Just as you are reliant on your brokerage, so too is your brokerage on merchants in the secondary market to sell on successfully and then actually pay your ...

Diversifying your fine wine portfolio - is it necessary?

The Fine Wine Investor — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0100

There is more to the fine wine world than Bordeaux. Even though these are the most highly traded wines in the world at the moment, this does not mean that this trend will continue forever.

It depends on how they feel…

Whereas in other financial markets, keeping an eye-out for government policies and large financial institutions’ investment is import to keep in mind, it is the general attitude of connoisseurs – those who will be buying and...

Fine wine storage and insurance

The Fine Wine Investor — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0100

Another reason why not to buy too many wines at any one time

If your storage and insurance is set to last for a 5 year duration and you intend to hold onto wines for longer due to the following reasons:

If a recession occurred and offers for your wines were therefore too low. Or;
Your brokers are dragging their knuckles with selling on your wines and you do not see them being sold soon enough before you’d have to buy a further year’s storage and insurance.

&nb...

Wine maturity dates: important for wine inivestors?

The Fine Wine Investor — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0100

If you’re a fine wine investor, I presume you receive information about your portfolio in the form of an appraisal. This typically includes information on what wines you have, the quantity, dates they were bought, etc. You may have also seen the phrase “maturity date” somewhere on there and underneath it a couple of dates. These dates represents the optimal window of time (between 2009 – 2017) within which your wine should be consumed as they will taste their be...

Deciphering wine price growth charts

The Fine Wine Investor — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:43:53 +0100

“Are the Strong growth charts shown on the likes of Liv-Ex and Langton's FW Index representative of the whole fine wine market?”

NO!

These indexes ONLY include the few wines that are the most highly traded in the fine wine market. The calibres of wines used are as stated in this excerpt courtesy of Liv-ex:

“How the Index is calculated:
• In order to qualify for the index, wines must have scored 95-points or ...

My gift to fine wine investors

The Fine Wine Investor — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:20:13 +0100

Dear friends,

Regular readers of the articles I post here will know that there is something we can do to make the profits we deserve whilst protecting ourselves from the sharks of the market that are fine wine brokers.

For those of you who may not know, I have a personal mission that is the driving force behind my wanting to help each and every wine investor out there. My mission is to help 10,000 wine investors to benefit from this market by utilising my insider experience a...

Wine investors: can you trust anyone?

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:05:55 +0100

I’m sure that you have a fair few newsletters that you are subscribed to. Whether they are on investment, lifestyle design, business, sport advice, etc. I am also sure that you trust and give a higher level of credibility to these sources when it comes to accepting their advice instead of advice from your neighbour, right?

You may have even followed their advice on a few occasions and have benefited greatly from it.

I have one of these, which I use as a second pair o...

What are “Tailor-made wine collections”?

The Fine Wine Investor — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:43:59 +0100

“We want to show you profits rapidly with your initial investment, encouraging you to put those profits back into the market. Does that make sense, Mr Smith?”

This was the line that was meant to catch prospects off-guard. After all, what kind of scrupulous company would openly come out and tell you that they wanted more of your money… to benefit YOU? They must be trustworthy and confident in their ability to make their clients’ money, right?...

Why the last article's advice can be tossed to one side…

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:08:54 +0100

Moaning can get you places in the fine wine investment world. It’s just not my ideal method of getting what I want done. This is probably because I’m the type of guy who will do his best to avoid all forms of conflict.

Now, my advice from last week is not wrong. However, last week’s methods of getting what your issues resolved are not the only ways that work. I’m here to bring you impartial advice on what tactics and practices will bring you the results you...

A wine investor’s guide to speedy wine sales

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:23:41 +0100

Being pro-active is key!

Shouting and complaining down the phone is the most counter-productive method of getting your wines sold. Dear reader, I am sure you have experienced this in other aspects of life, whether it was whilst attempting to solve a family, friend or customer dispute… or even from watching the Jerry Springer Show. All it does is raise your blood pressure and make the person on the other end of the phone, your broke...

The Robert Parker Jr Predictions: what they mean for wine investors everywhere

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:45:49 +0100

Even if you had only recently begun researching the fine wine market, it is inevitable that you would have come across and begun to understand the importance of Robert Parker Jr and his wine rating system on the world of fine wines.

This is especially the case for fine wine investors. When he and his hand-picked colleagues consecutively rate wines from a particular vineyard at extremely high scores, these wines will see over-night price growth, which has been seen to continually...

Bordeaux bankers

Mark Matthews — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:08:01 +0100

Investing in wine has left an unfamiliar taste in the mouth in recent months, with the price of certain vintages falling steeply in 2011. In a state of affairs unheard of for more than a decade, Bordeaux’s market-leading first growths (the elite group of top chateaux officially classified as the region’s best back in 1855) experienced steady price falls for six consecutive months in the second half of 2011, something of a...

Beware the Tee-Up Call

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:14:19 +0100

“All you ever do is try and sell me something”. This was a common complaint for many clients at the fine wine brokerage I once worked at. Whenever this line was used by a client, 9 times out of 10, their broker would not be making a successful sale that day.

However, to get around this, many began to include the “Tee-Up” into their encounters with clients. This was a long-winded, yet extremely effective, way of overcoming this objection. But, when used wel...

How to find accurate fine wine prices

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:01:17 +0100

From the way some fine wine brokerages go on about market price discovery, they make it seem as though only they have access to resources that accurately reflect the current market price for all investment grade fine wines.

This is not true.

Many brokerages primarily make use of tools that everyone and their great-great-grandparent have access to. It’s not especially difficult. And all of these resources are available from the comfort of your own living room &ndash...

#1 reason why you're paying all that commision

The Fine Wine Investor — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:29:41 +0100

When you are told you will receive certain service after buying wines with fine wine brokerage, you expect to receive these services, correct?

The services a brokerage will tell their new client that they will receive typically include:

Expert management of your wine portfolio;
That they will only ever call investors with recommendations of wines that are “necessary for your portfolio to make you the greatest profits possible”;
Your broker to alwa...

Fine Wine Market ≠ recession proof

The Fine Wine Investor — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:58:17 +0100

I am certain those of you currently involved in the fine wine market that have needed to release liquidity during the past few years have found it a shocking experience. Selling wine from your portfolio is not as simple and easy as you were led to believe when you first got involved was it? Well, you’re not alone. This was the same for the clients at my prior firm who either urgently needed the cash or who had wines coming to the end of their recommended drinking window (the perio...

Ausone was awarded 96-100 points

MHK — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:59:58 +0100

Full article:

http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/04/only-ausone-gets-100-point-potential-from-parker/

En primeur: Clarify before you buy

The Fine Wine Investor — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:21:01 +0100

This is a must do.

One method of greatly increase your profit in the fine wine market is also one of the riskiest. It is a move that is best left to the investor with an appetite for risk. Of course, if it plays out in your favour, you will experience profits in the hundreds of per cent area. But, if it goes wrong, you will be left with absolutely zero.

What is this method that I write of? Why, it is buying “en primeur” of course…

Tre...

More on how this market being unregulated affects you…

The Fine Wine Investor — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:28:32 +0100

Thanks to the Financial Service Authority (FSA) and equivalent agencies across the globe, investors have become accustomed to having their due diligence conducted on a particular financial market, and the companies involved, performed for them.

This has resulted in investors not feeling the need to do further due diligence because they think, “Well, if it’s a FSA regulated, thus trustworthy, market or company, then I know that my funds will be safe and secure”.