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Wine

If your investing appetite includes an appreciation for fine wine, beware: don’t let your palate control your wallet. Individual taste should be balanced by a variety of factors, including vintage, supply, and storage capability. Our story, videos, and slideshow explain the keys to collecting and profiting from these liquid assets.

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Investors' Guide to Fine Wine

If your traditional portfolio has left a bad taste in your mouth, you may want to consider a more flavorful investment. Now that wine prices are down from their peak last year, experts say now is the time for new and seasoned wine investors alike to hit the bottle.

Uncorking the Fine Wine Market

Investors looking for variation from stocks, bonds and currencies could try investing in good wine, which has provided good returns over long periods of time, but should beware of unprofessional advice in the area.

Collectible Wines: Money In A Bottle
Some investors have a taste for alternatives, such as collectible wine. Depending on the vintage, prices can range from affordable to extremely expensive.

Collectible Wines: Understanding Sellers and Cellars

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Where, What And When
A calendar of big events for would-be collectors and investors hunting for fun and fortune.

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Antiques: Sitting Pretty
This furniture will cost you an arm and a leg but might cushion your retirement.
Art: Appreciation
These works are the artistic equivalent of Google stock.
Auction: Christie's Dec. 2009
The auction house is selling hundreds of exotic items worth tens of millions of dollars.
Cars: Wheelin' And Dealin'
Even if your vintage vehicle doesn't rise in value, you can always drive it.
Coins: Saving Faces
There's two sides to this story but one carries more currency that the other.
Collect This: A-Z
Autographs of the famous to a Led Zepplin concert tour poster.
Memorabilia; Sporting Chance
There's plenty of ways to win at this game.
Memorabilia: That's Entertainment
There's no business like show business for some investors.
Tomorrow's Muscle Cars
These V-8-powered cars may be today's deals on wheels.
Monroe-Presely Auction
Brief careers, lasting impressions. Two endearing American icons of the 1950s-1960s.
Michael Jackson Auction
A sneak peek at the Nov 21st auction at the Hard Rock Café in New York City.
Charity Stamp Auction
Check out the rarest kind of postage stamps - ones with an inverted center.

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