Fine Wine Investing Explained: Part 2 - The Collector and Fine Wine Markets

This show was published Friday, September 18, 2026

Overview

In part two of this deep dive series, Chris Scott, host of the UK Wine Show, walks through the collector market and the wider fine wine trading market, the two very different worlds that sit beside of buying wine en primeur. He looks at what makes a bottle collectible, why provenance can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to a wine's value, and how merchants such as Justerini and Brooks, Berry Brothers and Rudd, Corney and Barrow and Farr Vintners have shaped the UK trade. Chris also breaks down how bonded warehouses work and compares newer investment platforms like Cult Wine, Vinovest, WineFi and Vint.

The best story of the episode: how a single bottle of 1945 Domaine Romanee-Conti became the most expensive wine ever sold, purely down to an accident of vine history and one very careful owner.

Hosted by Chris Scott.

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