Wine Investment | Fine Wine Investment

What does the future hold for your wine investments for this year?

Presently the trend of investments moving up and down is still happing in a lot of investment markets during the first quarter of 2011 but there is a good reason to be cheerful in regards to how wine has performed so far this year during this period. Last years Liv-ex report which shows the benchmark for wine investments reports a gain of over 40% of the top 100 fine wine index, and the top 50 actually rose by over 55%. To give you an idea Gold went up by just over 30%. Hopefully this looks good for the future of fine wine investment and you may ask yourself – will it constantly perform better than gold, well we will have to see in regards to that question.

The cheaper end of the range were in high demand in certain far eastern markets and it is thought that this trend will probably continue in the same fashion during this year and the next few years afterwards. It is always a good idea to keep wines in your portfolio from within a range of  the expensive and less expensive wines.

Some experts in the field are predicting very high returns based on the figures of the 2008 Lafite Rothschild cases, in which this wine had profits soaring over 400 percent, however this is not seen very often but it does have the experts predicting returns in the mid twenty percents and with China and the US in the market the auction prices look set to rise.

The majority of the professionals are advising to stay in the long game rather than looking for short investments, so having a strategy plan of investing between 5 to 10 years is a good idea and this is based on the strong current market and how having a strong base normally helps provide a nice steady long term investment.

The Lafite Rothschild continues doing very well at the top end of the performance charts in the initial growth category, during 2010 it remained as one of the most traded across all the different vintages. The interest in these wines is predicted to continue in the same vein, and Haut Brion Chateau, which has generally been a slow mover in first stage growths showed over twenty percent returns during last year (in the best vintages) so this one maybe worth adding to the list of your portfolio. Please remember having the correct advise will help your investments be good ones.