5 characteristics of elite wine

General Course and pitfalls on the way a wine novice investors have been discussed in the previous article . Now we shall understand the difference between a wine that is worth investing money from its opposite. Wine with investment potential in the English language even exists a special term: IGW – Investment Grade Wine. Question: Can an ordinary person on their own to find a wine? Answer: yes. To do so, armed with common sense and knowledge of the five characteristics of elite wines:

1. High score leading wine experts

List of online magazines, which publishes the evaluation of wine, see the previous article . Subscriptions to journals is needed if you intend to act promptly on the basis of newly obtained information. But you can already buy bottled but not yet ripe wine. Or have matured – in order to sell it, when this vintage would be a rarity. For such cases, you can get free online resources. This is primarily Vinfolio and Snooth


Wine, which is worth to invest has an estimate of 95-100 points out of a possible 100.

2. Longevity

Together with an estimate of the wine gets the forecasts for durability. If one measure of wine over the years, growing – and with it the projections on the longevity of wine – it is a good indicator of potential investments in this wine. The very high appreciation of the wine in the 99-100 points means a high potential for preservation of the wine. Look at the screenshot ratings Petrus 2003 at Vinfolio (click on picture to see fullsize). As is evident from the evaluation Parker (Wine Advocate), this wine is best consumed within 2008-2036 years.

3.Harvest

Demand for the wine purchased through the decades will be determined in particular by a good year, whether it was for this wine.

4. Brand wine (brand)

Imagine two spoons 19 th century, gold and steel. Which of them will cost more? Steel – if space it knows for certain that this very spoon Leo Tolstoy eating soup in the period from writing the “Cossacks” to “Anna Karenina. Same thing with wine. “Branding” wine, even worse quality and with lower scores are more expensive good no-name. And vice versa – sometimes very mediocre wine is “great” origin ranked higher only for the brand. But usually, the famous brand of wine is not born from scratch and serves as indirect evidence of “special properties” of wine.

5.Sales History

Before you invest in wine, you need to compare the price of several similar yields of wine, valued equally. Dynamics of prices for good yields of good wine – the key to assessing its potential. Growth in global demand for luxury wines creates a situation where a young wine and the estimated costs more than the same old brand, has already matured. What happens then? Ripe wine is a result of falling prices will be actively sought, and soon its price will rise again. Where to watch the sales history? At the same Vinfolio along with reviews of specific wines is available to you the history of auction. If you look at the same Petrus 2003 , we see that in April this year, at the height of the crisis, its price fell to $ 950 per bottle, and in October went up to $ 2200. In general, for several years, price increases and the last few years, holding steady at $ 2000 per bottle. Similarly behaves slightly lower priced Petrus 2001: steady growth rates with short-term decline in January this year.