Bear markets, chickens and wine

This is just a short note to highlight what could be an interesting review at the year end, at least as far as the UK wine market is concerned. For the last ten years consumers have benefited from a strong currency vis-a-vis the US dollar and Euro, low rates of interest and low inflation. Their [...]

Bastille Day in Beaune

I have been traveling across Europe for the better part of two weeks. The first week was all work, packing up the cellar of Wolfgang Grunewald in scenic Switzerland. While we probably should have spent seven or eight days on the job inspecting and packing the some-odd 800 cases for shipment, we managed to jam [...]

Beijing

Here’s wishing everyone a happy 4th of July with an article about…Beijing, or rather my recent trip to Beijing before our inaugural Hong Kong auction, interrupting my not-so-recent ‘Four in a Row’ series of articles. Better late than never, I know. But, in a way, I can’t help but notice the irony, and I can [...]