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Home | Auctions & Fine Wine Market | Liquid Assets 2021 Q1: A year to forget ends with the fine-wine trade embarking on the slow road to recovery Liquid Assets 2021 Q1: A year to forget ends with the fine-wine trade embarking on the slow road to recovery
By Chloe Ashton | March 18 2021
2020’s most expensive lot: DRC 1985 in 6-liter Methuselahs sold through Baghera for $1,009,350. Photography courtesy of Baghera
The World of Fine Wine ’s auctions and secondary market correspondent,
Justerini & Brooks Showcases the Future of Burgundy
By Irenie Forshaw
Over a 270-year history, Justerini & Brooks has forged a reputation as the preeminent UK importer of fine wines.
Over a 270-year history, Justerini & Brooks has forged a reputation as the preeminent UK importer of fine wines from Europe’s leading winemaking regions. In order to retain that position, huge time and effort is invested into identifying who the next generation of top estates might be and few regions are currently demonstrating more dynamism, innovation or value than Burgundy.
Following a festive season of overindulgence, many people enter the new year with a pledge to put down the wine glass at least temporarily. For those in the UK wine trade, however, abstinence is not an option: January marks “Burgundy month.”
A year to forget ends with the fine-wine trade embarking on the slow road to recovery
The World of Fine Wine’s auctions and secondary market correspondent,
Chloe Ashton, finds cause for cautious optimism after the first 12 difficult months of Covid-19
Against a frightening global backdrop, fine-wine prices managed to climb in 2020. While an uphill struggle logistically, with merchants navigating digital adaptation as well as licking old wounds (Brexit uncertainty, US tariffs, Hong Kong’s political instability), heightened interest and activity from collectors propped up the market, finally ending an historic year with positive gains.
Liv-ex indices show that the market did stumble at the initial, global impact of Covid-19 the Liv-ex 50, comprising Bordeaux first growths, dropped 3 percent in the first quarter of the year (fig.1). “Fear began to set in as sales for Chinese New Year were drastically down on previous years,” explains Justin Gibbs, Co-founder and Director of
Justerini & Brooks Showcases the Future of Burgundy
By Irenie Forshaw
Over a 270-year history, Justerini & Brooks has forged a reputation as the preeminent UK importer of fine wines.
Over a 270-year history, Justerini & Brooks has forged a reputation as the preeminent UK importer of fine wines from Europe’s leading winemaking regions. In order to retain that position, huge time and effort is invested into identifying who the next generation of top estates might be and few regions are currently demonstrating more dynamism, innovation or value than Burgundy.
Following a festive season of overindulgence, many people enter the new year with a pledge to put down the wine glass at least temporarily. For those in the UK wine trade, however, abstinence is not an option: January marks “Burgundy month.”
Over a 270-year history, Justerini & Brooks has forged a reputation as the preeminent UK importer of fine wines from Europe’s leading winemaking regions.
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By Alexandre Centeleghe, Lecturer in Oenology at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)
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Seasonal winter food and wine pairings by the EHL experts Photo: EHL
As 2020 comes to an end, Chef Fabien Pairon, Senior Lecturer in Practical Arts and Meilleur Ouvrier de France , joins Alexandre Centeleghe, Lecturer in Oenology, for some seasonal winter food and wine pairing suggestions. Advertisements
When thinking of a food and wine pairing, it is important to understand the interaction between the 5 tastes the human tongue perceives: sweetness, acidity, saltiness, bitterness and umami.
Sweet food goes well with still or sparkling wines that have some sweetness in them in order for the wines to not feel bitter and bland in the pairing.