Catch ‘22 ! Having just returned from three separate weeks of en primeur tastings in Bordeaux, we can confirm that the 2022 Bordeaux vintage is a truly excellent one. The best since 2016 (although warmer and richer than that) and equal, if not superior, to the stellar pair of 2009 and 2010. It was a very hot year indeed, as it was across Europe, and yet the wines display remarkable freshness. According to all the winemakers we interviewed this was due to a number of factors, or a different combination of them.  Firstly the heat arrived early and gradually – it was a warm spring, unlike in ..read more

Saturnalia Barolo Harvest Report 2022 For the third consecutive year, we are delighted to partner with Saturnalia on Vindome.net. Saturnalia provides exclusive, fine wine data analysis to deliver detailed harvest reports by region and appellation. Their findings are based on factual and independent data including satellite observation, weather data, geology, topography and wine prices. This in-depth information provides potential inventors with a competitive advantage against the market. If you are thinking of investing in Barolo, then this report is a must read.  Read the full Saturnalia ..read more

Each spring, usually towards the end of April, the Châteaux put together their blends from the previous vintage. These wines are shown to the customers (‘brokers’) and the press and is sold as ‘futures’ via the En Primeur system. So, what can the happy investor expect from En Primeur 2022? Prices are released a few weeks or months after, and the wines are released and sold in batches (called ‘tranches’), often at increasingly higher prices. Investors can make money on buying early wines which subsequently are positively received or over-subscribed. The wines are sold in the summer and will be ..read more

Meet Ingrid, Vindome’s CEO and Co-founder. Prior to launching Vindome in 2019, Swedish-born Ingrid worked in the financial arena and with successful start-up businesses. She lives in Monaco with her husband and two children. What led you to create Vindome? Vindome was born from the realisation that fine wine investment was not as popular in Europe as it was in the UK. So, together with my founding partner Viktoria Palatnik, we set out to revolutionise the fine wine investment market. We had – and have – the ambition of making the trading of fine wine more accessible, safe, transparent and dyna ..read more

Please forgive me, as I will be showing my age here. But hands up if you remember life before the Internet? Who can remember back to the days when we didn’t have the constant stream of consciousness access to all the information we need (or don’t) in the world, where we had limited options, and basically, if we didn’t use our imaginations for things then we were up the Swaney, and without the proverbial paddle to boot. Ah, yes, it was a simpler time indeed, but before you go off into a hazy glow of rose-coloured glasses and how things were better in my day, hold on for a minute. Was life pre-i ..read more

As the Argentina wine harvest, or La Vendimia Festival, gets going, at Vindome.net we take a look at this great wine country. Several of Argentina’s top wines are already available on the Vindome Wine investment app or Vindome.net. These wines look to become among tomorrow’s great wine investments. More wines from Argentina are sure to follow. Argentina is the largest producer of wine in South America. The famous high-altitude deserts of the eastern Andes mountains provide most of the vineyards. Areas further south, and more coastal, are becoming more successful and noticed. How did Argentina ..read more

Will investing in vintage Champagne continue to sparkle in 2023? As the clock struck midnight on the 31st of December, the sound of Champagne corks could be heard all over the world. Happy New Year! Welcome, 2023! This will be the year that will make all our dreams come true! Everyone everywhere was enjoying the excitement of the new year, naturally with a glass of champers in hand.  Synonymous with fun and celebrations, Champagne is to wine what Marilyn Monroe is to women: it knocks you out with its body and then reels you in with its brains. Never in the history of mankind has there bee ..read more

It is with great joy that I introduce Vindome’s 2022 Fine Wine Investment Market Report. It has been a year of highs and lows, but there are a few takeaways that investors – experienced or beginners – need to know if they are going to enjoy a “fruitful” 2023. General good news Compared to other assets and against a background of high and rising inflation, wine investors have every reason to feel content with their portfolio performance. By the end of December 2022, fine wine prices (Liv-ex 1000) averaged over 16% growth over the last 12 months compared to a decline of over 20% for the S&P5 ..read more

For centuries wine producers have walked lovingly along their rows of vines, inspecting their fruit. This traditional walk has given producers an idea of when they should think about harvesting and gives them an idea of the wine they are about to make. It allows them to muse as they gaze upon their pastoral idyll on questions of profound importance: are the grapes ripe enough? What will the weather conditions be like over the next weeks? How healthy are the plants?… Unfortunately, this image of bucolic perfection is changing. Thanks to climate change, this annual ritual is now just as likely t ..read more

Majestic, magnificent and mythical. A wine so loved that Ernest Hemmingway named his daughter after it. One of the original fab four voted the best wine in Bordeaux in 2015, James Suckling described it as “the best ever made”… Yes, you’ve guessed it, it’s Chateau Margaux.  “There cannot be a better bottle of Bordeaux than a bottle of Margaux,” Thomas Jefferson famously said, and to a certain degree, he was right. More about Château Margaux Chateau Margaux is one of the rare cases where the hype does not do enough justice to the product. Not only does the Left Bank big player belong to the ..read more