Rupert Millar News Today

This week saw Patrick Schmitt MW at the Global Wine Masters, James Evison with Busi-Jacobsohn, Louis Thomas taste the Languedoc, Douglas Blyde with Graham's Port and Ross Kemp with Heineken.

Burgundy producers have dominated the top places in the latest Liv-ex Power 100 ranking, reflecting the region's strong fine wine market performance...

People are increasingly investing in fine wines, as opposed to other luxury items like cars and watches, experts from Acker Wines told Insider.

Traditionally investors have focused on fine clarets, from the Bordeaux region of France, but many of the best financial returns are now coming from Italy.

Liv-ex invests in its Market Data & Insights with new hires. London, UK: Liv-ex today announces a new chapter for its market leading Insights product, with the hiring of Rupert Millar as Managing Editor and Felicity Carter as Editorial Consultant. After 20 years of building the global marketplace for wine, Liv-ex data has become the industry benchmark. Not only does its data help merchant members value their (and their client’s) stock and make informed trading decisions, but it is also widel...

Ornellaia announces new Napa project 5th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Tuscan estate Ornellaia has announced a new venture in California in partnership with Dalla Valle Vineyards, called ‘DVO’. The first wine from the new label, the 2018, is due for release this October. It is an almost 100% Cabernet Sauvignon save for a little Cabernet Franc added too. Ornellaia’s estate director Axel Hei...

Online retailer Winebuyers seeks ‘investors’ 5th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Online wine club Winebuyers is seeking buyers and/or investors for its business, presenting itself as a thriving concern when, behind the scenes, there is a growing clamour from a string of unpaid suppliers and unhappy customers. The “disruptive” and “exclusive” online wine club is currently listed as an a...

En Magnum targets file lawsuit 4th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Sandrine Goeyvaerts and Fleur Godart, two women at the centre of the En Magnum cartoon furore last year, have filed a lawsuit citing sexism and cyber-harassment. In late November last year the Bettane & Desseauve title En Magnum, published a cartoon which was decried as “crude”, “misogynistic” and “sexist”. It feature...

Catena Institute finds ‘irrefutable proof’ of terroir 4th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar The Catena Institute of Wine has announced the publication of a new paper which it says, “irrefutably proves the existence of terroir and its persistence across vintages”. A long-debated term in wine, its meaning and even existence supported and dismissed by generations, the study set out to find if w...

2009 wines rising as Year of the Ox approaches 3rd February, 2021 by Rupert Millar The Chinese New Year on 12 February this year will usher in the year of the Ox. A previous ‘Ox vintage’ was 2009, and wines from that vintage have been the second most-traded on the Liv-ex platform so far this year. The year of the Ox has fallen on some much heralded vintages in the past, including 2009, 1985 an...