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    Bordeaux 2009 Part I: quality and price

    Distinctions amongst the wines from this vintage can be made at a number of levels. We look at a Quality Price Index (QPI) for the crop of offerings and assesses their future potential.
    A number of factors contribute to the success of a wine and thus its commercial prospects. These can broadly be divided into three [...]

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Wine at Auction

Acker Merrall & Condit | June 23rd and 24th

Acker Alfresco! Sales Results # 104 | Revel Restaurant – New York City Auction Summary Info | Total Lots in Auction ...

Sotheby’s London | Finest and Rarest Wines & Vintage Port | 16 June 2010

Sale no: L10706 | Grand Total: £687,988 ($1,135,179) | Sold by lot: 98.0% Lots offered: 538 | Sold by £: ...

Fine and Rare Wines – June 12 at Christie’s NY

Fine & Rare Wines | New York – June 12, 2010 | Sale no: 2382 | Sold: $ 2,144,520/£ 1,468,849/€ ...

Fine and Rare Wines | 12 June 2010 | Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco and Los Angeles

sale # 17755 | Total: $797,740 (incl Buyer's Premium) | Lots Sold/Unsold: 896/317 | Sold By Lot: 74% | Sold ...

Acker Merrall & Condit Auction of The Imperial Cellar Achieves HK$152 Million

Top lot of Henri Jayer Vosne Romanée Cros Parantoux realizes HK$1,952,000, setting a New World Auction record for a Henri ...

Zachys’ late spring auction breaks Lafite 1982 world record, tops $3million in a single day

Lots offered: 1070 | Percent sold: 99.1% | Price with buyer’s premium: US$3,036,858 Zachys’ Late Spring Auction on Friday, May ...

Hart Davis Hart to sell an important collection of wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Hart Davis Hart is to sell an important collection of wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and a magnificent assortment ...

Bonhams makes over £500,000 at May wine auction.

A case of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1959 was the top lot in Bonhams sale of Fine & Rare Wines on ...

Sotheby’s Hong Kong sale of Cheval Blanc, Yquem and Dom Perignon direct from the cellars achieved strong results | 100% sold

Grand Total: HK$20,664,383/US$2,647,934 ((Exch Rate: 0.13)) | High estimate (HK$14,447,000/US$1,851,239) | Sale HK0335 Cheval Blanc, Yquem and Dom Pérignon | ...

Nederburg Wine Sale – South Africa

The world-renowned Nederburg Wine Auction has appointed Anthony Barne, a Master of Wine at Bonhams, the international fine art and ...

Sotheby’s sale of Fine and Rare Wines & Vintage Port

L10705 | 19 May, 2010 | GRAND TOTAL: £623,323 ($894,158) ((exchange rate: 1.43)) | SOLD BY LOT: 95.3% LOTS OFFERED: ...

Christie’s Geneva | Fine Wines Sale totals SFr.2,105,777 / $1,900,253 / €1,493,206

Selling 99% by lot and by value. New World Record for Hermitage 'La Chapelle' 1961 per bottle. Geneva - Tuesday, ...

Auction of Finest and Rarest Wines | Chicago | Hart Davis Hart sells 100% of lots for $3.7 Million as prices strike new 2010 highs

Percent sold by lot: 100% | Hammer: $3,161,090 (132.78% to low) | Total Aggregate: $3,777,502 Hart Davis Hart held a highly ...

Christie’s New York sale of Fine & Rare Wines | May 7 & 8 | Sale no: 2381

Sold: $ 2,239,140/£ 1,523,225/€ 1,763,102 ((Exchange Rate: £ = $1.47/ € = $1.27)) | Lots Sold: 526 | Lots Offered: ...

ACKER ASIA Proudly Presents — The Imperial Cellar May 28-29 in HK

A Legendary Single Cellar Sale featuring the World’s Greatest Wines | Over 19,000 bottles with an estimated total value of ...

News

Bordeaux Wine Festival — France’s biggest wine event

Every other year, Bordeaux organizes the international wine event which is open to the public and dedicated to Bordeaux and Aquitaine wines. Bordeaux Wine Festival welcomes all wine and fine food amateurs from the 24th – 27th June 2010. This year, don’t miss: the 2 km long wine route, based in the heart of the [...]

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Château Cheval Blanc
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc, Premier Grand Cru Classé (A) [1955 Classification]. 
Summary: 37 hectares (91 acres). Cabernet Franc (58%), Merlot (42%). Soil: deep gravel, sand with clay subsoil. Average ages of vines 40 years — the oldest are 80 years old (1920). Rootstock riparia; 3309; 101-14; 420 A. Density of plantation 6 000 to 7 000 plants per [...]

Business of wine

Social Media: Building communities and understanding them

Social media is a way for you to build your own contacts and network, but as importantly, to understand, measure and follow your brand, your market penetration, your influence and the efficiency and thus cost of your marketing strategy.

Years to reach 50million users: Radio 38 years; TV 13 years; Internet 13 years; Facebook 9 [...]

Country Focus

The Italian Way: sparkling wines

Italy is a country of enormous diversity – geographic, cultural, linguistic, culinary and, of course, vinous. This applies to their sparkling wine production as much as their mountains, art, cities, dialects, salamis, cheeses and tranquil wines. In the current global economic crisis, Italian bubbly has shown strong export growth in in the first nine months [...]

Bordeaux 2008

Bordeaux 2008 – the year of the price

The ‘en primeur’ campaign has begun. We examine the background to this vintage, its overall quality, the likely impact from the current economic climate, and the changes which have taken place since the last campaign in 2008. We examine what room for manoeuvre the châteaux of Bordeaux may have for pricing changes, how release prices [...]

Fine Wine events

Ambassadors to Venice
This entry is part 1 of 11 in the series Ambassadors to Venice

We selected wines which are the greatest ambassadors to the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia — the closest wine regions to Venice — Prosecco, Amarone, Soave, Picolit to name but a few. We concentrated on wines made from the local autocthonous grape varieties paired to local food dishes prepared using only the best and [...]

Travel

The best wine bars in London

London has remarkably few wine bars which possess a truly extensive list of wines. It is not surprising if one considers the organisation behind such an undertaking: one needs somewhere to display them, one needs resources to buy them and, if they’re not for immediate drinking, to store them whilst funding the cash flow. One [...]

wineViator

Champagne production through the voices of producers

The production of Champagne involves a number of processes – including two fermentations and finally disgorgement (one of the least understood components of Champagne manufacture). Fine Wine explains the technique and the effect it has on the wine.

Wine at Auction feature

Château Cheval Blanc 1947

Château Cheval Blanc 1947 has an extraordinary reputation and many of the world’s greatest connoisseurs have always raved about the wine and its unique qualities. Such is the demand for it that it seems likely an upcoming sale of various different vintages direct from the château, and which includes this famous year, are likely to [...]

Champagne

The impact of climate change on Champagne

Iconic photographer Robert Capa loved Champagne so much so it supposedly inspired the name behind of the world’s most famous picture agencies, Magnum. Capa co-founded Magnum with Henri Cartier Bresson, amongst others, in 1947. 1947 was not only of the finest Champagne vintages but the late 1940s marked the start of a period [...]

People in Wine

Climate change and wine

We’re beginning  a new season of podcasts and and start with the subject of climate change and how this might affect wine making in the future. Fabian Cobb spoke to Professor Gregory Jones, of the Department of Environmental Studies at  Southern Oregon University.
Under discussion: how did Professor Jones became be involved with this branch of science? ♦ What [...]

Books

Top 10 Wine Books

It is interesting to see which are the Top 10 wine books at this time