Concha y Toro is topping the ratings charts and may soon be the number one-selling import wine in the United States.

Even for a business like wine, with products that are supposed to improve with age, it’s hard not to marvel at what a difference 10 years have meant to Concha y Toro’s fortunes. A decade ago, Americans still considered the Chilean winery synonymous with economy-size magnums of simple Cabernet served at off-Broadway cast parties and East Village gallery openings. The image was about the same in Chile, where Concha y Toro ran all its business from its headquarters in a seedy, working-class district of Santiago–just the neighborhood for the nation’s viño popular.
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Familiar artist from the scope of Russian folk crafts tells us that dolls are painted with gold paint and pasted with gold foil, twice the odds are better than any other, even more subtle and elegant pattern. A lot of “gold” – is a best, according to the consumer. But not only Russian matreshechnik so smart. World wine brands are also not averse to capitalize on this weakness to our precious metals. Here are 10 examples of label design and packaging for the wine in your favorite style of the people “gold-diamonds”:

1. Arrepiado Collection Wine
The design for the Portuguese collection wine winery Herdade do Arrepiado Velho , Alentejo, Portugal, 2006 vintage. Designer Marta Neto .
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Since then, the horse was domesticated by man, and until the emergence of an internal combustion engine, we almost never parted. The Greeks even invented a centaur. Now, of course, not that. One horsepower – it is not the scale for us today, and for decorative purposes are not going to keep the horse – not tax the same. They still, however, are bred for the royal fox hunting, horse racing at Ascot and polo, but in general …

Remain, however, the characters. Images of horses lives on in art, books, cinema. And – on a wine label . No animal has mastered so well the area, like a horse. Of course, birds, dogs, kangaroos and other fish on the labels of wine, too, abound, but still a horse captured there more often. When a winemaker wishes to emphasize the strength and power, or conversely, the beauty and elegance of taste and flavor of their wines, the best way he does not pick up.
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I have long been among the followers of paper books, pens and metallic foil? Now, I believe that harass the forest on the book – is unreasonable, do not write anything handle and shave tricky buzzing device. Not far distant day when you, dear reader, come into the store, instead of recalling written on our site, simply spend your iphone-th of bar code label and everything about this wine you’ll know.
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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
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In our series of articles on wine market , we consistently look at all the issues that stand in the way of the lone cowboy who has decided to look around himself.

We describe the general mechanics of investments , made ​​recommendations on several wines with good investment potential and now it’s time to talk about buying wine futures.
Buy wine premier two years before bottling it – both the most profitable and most risky strategy of wine investment. Beneficial – because in the case of buying wines still in barrel, you buy it at the lowest possible price. Risky – because the assessment of the potential of wine at this stage – approximate. Maturation, the wine may be, contrary to expectations, the fall in quality and, accordingly – in price.
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1. Be aware of estimates of wine critics

Prices for wine, that is, on your “action” depends on the evaluation of wine experts. Exemplary in the first class are not always in the Tenth Five – the same with wine. If the high score is confirmed at the stage of maturation of wine or rises above – you’re in the black. In addition, the evaluation of wine are often new investment opportunities – the price of highly rated wines Parker immediately take off on low priced – fall.
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You are wealthy enough to drink good wine. You are advanced enough to know what wine – good. Not just good – the best in the world. These are your ambitions. But – whether to drink it? Rather, only to drink? Wine is the highest category, premium wine – no longer as much drink as such, as a means of investment. Currency, which is growing well. In the world of big money has come to invest in expensive fashion collection wine. This prestigious, it’s fashionable, it is original. And it’s very, very profitable. But – it must be able to do.
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From the time of the Romans in France generated a large volume of sales of wines and created the need for transportation to be as effective as possible. It was then that the knowledge of high quality French oak wood Cuba devised the unit volume as the barrel, the content is 225 liters.

The reason for the wood to use was the oak because this to be cut has a structure that breaks the core radial rings, and other trees, but wood is more compact, have no medullary rays in oak is vitreous and impervious and prevents mold from forming organisms such as altering the taste of wine.
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Investments make sense only if they are easy to draw in revenue. In the case of wine – if you compiled wine collection at any time can be realized. If the opportunities to realize not to buy wine for investment purposes – meaningless. In our country you can only buy wine. Where do you sell it then? But to buy from us – it’s expensive. Naturally, the closer to the place of production, the shorter the chain of mediation, the better your purchase. Hence, the purchase and sale should be made to the Western trading floors.

A deposit: Where to store the wine investment to implement? Stored properly, that it was not spoiled? Too – there. If you did not drink, then carry it to and fro?
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