Why fine wine outperforms 98 per cent of other investments

Fine wine used to be the preserve of tweed-clad connoisseurs and their cavernous cellars piled high with top vintages from Bordeaux’s finest chateaux. Not anymore. Today your average fine wine investor is just as likely to be a budding young entrepreneur saving for the future, a hardworking tradesman with a successful small business or a retiree looking to maximise that retirement pot. Companies such as OenoFuture are making it easier than ever for both new and experienced investors to enjoy market-beating returns that consistently average 10 to 11 per cent per annum. “Fine wine investment companies always like to trot out the well-worn line that investors should diversify 1 to 10 per cent of their portfolio with fine wine,” says Daniel Walker, OenoFuture’s Head of Investment. “The truth is that wine is a remarkably safe and stable investment that is proven to outperform 98 per cent of other investments. To give a quick example, Liv-Ex’s Burgundy 150, which tracks the prices of top Burgundy wines, shot up 76.95 per cent over the past five years, while the FTSE 100 fell by -14.3 per cent over the same period.” website.