Parker’s potent wine list

May marks the beginning of the annual fine wine investment sale season, better known as the En Primeur campaign. It is a time where the world’s top wines and big money meet.

May marks the beginning of the annual fine wine investment sale season, better known as the En Primeur campaign. It is a time where the world’s top wines and big money meet.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, yen, euro, pounds and latterly, the Chinese yuan, are exchanged for the promise of wine in the future. Like a greyhound out of a trap, the Bordeaux fine wine stock exchange also ramps into action.

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