It is often said that buyers like the association with top names without paying full price, yet there comes a point where the price of your fake Louis Vuitton bag is so close to the real thing that the market for copies disappears.
As the London wine auction scene winds down for the summer, Burgundy and first growth claret led a last hurrah at Bonhams’ sale last week.
Swept up in World Cup fever, Bordeaux first growth Château Lafite Rothschild has offered bottles of its 1998 vintage to the victorious French football team.
The 1989 vintage of first growth Haut-Brion is the leading wine traded by value on the Liv-ex Exchange so far this year.