Vintage Sacred
Liquid InvestmentsNothing is sacred to the boys in the city. Now even the world of wine has become a bun-fight amid investors keen to make dramatic returns over very short periods and claret lovers despairing as their favourite wines spiral out of their reach. At the very top end of French wine-making, the enormously collectable Petrus of Pomerol is now around £23,000 a case for the terrifi 2000 vintage. However, I have no doubt it will soon find a buyer as the market for fine wines refuses to slow down. Customers who purchased into the celebrated 2000 vintage en primeur (ie buying while the wine is still in France at the Chateaux maturing) are now laughing into their checkbooks. A case of Mouton-Rothschild 2000 that went for around £1000 will now fetch someplace in the region of £6000. That’s 600% growth in just 7 years, no wonder the city boys are scrambling to get their hands on good wine! This begs the question: who is genuinely drinking these wines? Contrary to mutual sentiment the vast majority is still being purchased to be drunk, what has changed is the nature of the buyers. Wine Merchants are seeing their clients alter from older clients following a wine vintage to vintage to younger, cash rich buyers looking to establish a cellar but comforted by the fact the wine will appreciate. The Asian market has likewise grown enormously, with wine merchants in China and Japan doing record business. So what does this mean for those of us who imagination a dabble in the world of fine Claret? Well there are two main points to bear in mind before you take the plunge. Most primary is the quality of the vintage: 2000 and 2005 command such high prices because they were both superb vintages, demand for both will always be high. Secondly, the influence of the American wine critic Robert Parker is indispensable in the innovative market. His 100 point scoring system is to a massive degree influential in the value of a wine, some would say too influential! A wine with from a good Parker score from a good vintage is a sound investment, even though evidently still at the whim of international markets. If you imagination buying into the top wines but find the prices a little on the heavy side, look to lesser but decent vintages like 2004 or 2006 or buy into the 2nd Wines of these Chateaux: these may represent terrific value.
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Insight into possible Catholic tradition? At a second-hand store, I not long ago purchased a "Sacred Heart of Mary" print that looks to be of 1950s vintage. In taking it isolated to clean the glass, I found a photograph of a young boy, perhaps 5-7 years old. There is not one thing written on the back of the photo, other the identifying selective information in regards to the professional studio that took the picture. The picture of Mary showed in the glass, and the photo of the boy was concealed behind. Is there any Catholic tradition of doing this? Is there a significance to this placement? I wondered if perhaps the boy had passed away young and this was sort of a perpetual prayer for him. I would be grateful for your thoughts. Thanks! I've never heard of that, but it makes a lot of sense to me. It could be a bereaved mother's way to symbolically give her lost child into the Blessed Mother's love and care. Or it could have been a silent prayer request for protecting a living child, as well. And depending on how old the boy is and how well he's dressed, the picture could have been a First Communion gift with the photo tucked inside as a remembrance of the day. If he's well-dressed and apparently taking part in a great deal of special occasion, that's the most likely answer. In any event, it's not a general exercise that I'm conscious of -- perchance an ethnic or territorial tradition of galore sort. |
