The Fine Wine Market enjoyed an eagerly anticipated boom from late 2005.

Prices had been somewhat flat for a couple of years and the top wines, particularly those from the 1996 & 2000 Bordeaux vintages, were beginning to look exceptionally cheap.

By early 2006 the bull was up and running, fed by massive demand from the "new" markets, investment funds and private customers increasingly aware of the value, both in drinking and investment terms, of the best wines in the world.

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