THE FUSE

An interesting corollary of the general decline in wine sales worldwide has been the collapse of the wine investment market. This is not something immediately evident to the average South African fine wine drinker, However, if you were living in the UK and had been buying Bordeaux En Primeur for many years (ostensibly for your pleasure, but often because you were told it was a great investment and a useful component of your retirement portfolio) you would be acutely aware of the situation.