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Harvests

Wine investors: drinkers and investors won during the financial crisis

04/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

There are two types of wine investors: those who buy wines they want to explore, and who set them aside for later when the sensory value will have increased, and those who buy, gambling that the price will rise neatly. The investors will either sell it or open the bottle when it is time to […]

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Vintage wine frauds face off with science (update)

22/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Australians take advantage of nuclear fallout Brits and French prefer to shoot ion beams from particle accelerator Update 17:35  Australian researchers have succeeded, after 11 years of research and several hundred bottles of wine, in coming up with a new carbon-dating method to check the real age of vintage wines. It’s not cheap, but the […]

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