HeyJaredRichard Woodard
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on market trends: Covers shifts in buyer sentiment, market evolution, and secondary market dynamics. - Emphasizes regional uniqueness: Highlights cool-climate regions, vintage comparisons, and distinct wine styles.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 17, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Drinks Business
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest articles
Back to the future: the creation of Louis XIII Black Pearl (opens the original)
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For the latest innovation from Rémy Martin’s luxury Cognac franchise, cellar master Baptiste Loiseau returned to a precious, century-old eau-de-vie that he first tasted during his apprenticeship 14 years ago. Richard Woodard reports on how Louis XIII Black Pearl uses temperature, time and a historic cellar to create a £21,000 Cognac. A fine Cognac represents the coming together of multiple different elements, from the vineyard through winemaking, distillation, maturation and blending. Is the vin
Michael Burry backs fine wine as hedge against AI âhellscapesâ (opens the original)
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The investor made famous by The Big Short has identified fine wine as a potential hedge against threats posed by AI, quantum computing and a weakening US dollar. Richard Woodard reports on why Michael Burry believes blue-chip bottles offer advantages over cryptocurrencies and other financial assets. Investing in fine wine offers an attractive hedge against the threat to cryptocurrencies and other financial assets posed by AI and quantum computing, according to famed âshort sellerâ Michael Bu
Blue-chip wines help Burgundy to outstrip Bordeaux (opens the original)
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Burgundy has overtaken Bordeaux as Liv-ex’s most traded fine wine region for the first time since 2022 – boosted by demand for leading names such as Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), Ramonet, Leflaive and d’Auvenay. Trading in Burgundy outstripped Bordeaux in July, with the fine wine exchange also highlighting the region’s “substantial increase in trade over the past decade – levels now sitting higher than just prior to the bull run – while Bordeaux has stagnated”. Liv-ex’s Burgundy 150 index,
'Fantastic time to be a whisky drinker’ as Hedonism launches own-label range (opens the original)
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Mayfair drinks boutique Hedonism Wines may be best-known for its well-heeled clientele and high-priced bottles, but the retailer’s new own-label whiskies aim to combine exclusivity with affordability – aided, ironically enough, by difficult trading conditions in the whisky market. Richard Woodard reports. The recent downturn in the rare whisky category has been difficult to ignore, consumers voting with their wallets as prices reached unsustainable levels, exacerbated by deteriorating macroecono
âA warrior varietyâ â Cabernetâs resilience from the Maipo to Margaux (opens the original)
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As the climate and consumer tastes change, how does the future look for Cabernet Sauvignon? Still pretty bright, if the views of the winemakers of Casa Real and Château Lascombes are anything to go by. Richard Woodard reports. London is sweltering in the throes of an unprecedented June heatwave, the mercury surging rapidly into the mid- to high 30s celsius. Over in Bordeaux, the conditions are even more extreme, prompting Château Lascombes winemaker and CEO Axel Heinz to admit that this year m
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