Fine Wine

Restaurant finds stash of Latour under secret trapdoor
The owners of a restaurant in Berkshire have discovered a secret cellar stocked with £20,000 worth of vintage wines, including Chateau Latour, after stumbling across a hidden trapdoor.

Liv-ex introduces ‘fair value’ method
After calling for an end to “opaque” en primeur pricing, Liv-ex has laid out a “fair value” methodology, which it says could lead to a new consensus on pricing and help Bordeaux “reinvent itself in the internet age”.

Fine wine investment: back in La La land
The wines of the Côte Rôtie don’t often set the market alight, because they are such small participants in the overall game but the performance of the famous 'La Las' over the last six months has been little short of spectacular.

Second leg of Monumental sale ‘a triumph’
The London leg of Sotheby’s three-part ‘Monumental Collection’ sale was branded a “triumph” after it made £1.6 million on Wednesday.