You have to face several issues when you are looking to invest seriously in wine. Of course you may face difficulty to find out a marketplace for selling wines. Serious wine investors will have to look to establish markets for fine wines, where they're able to liquidate their stocks and get good prices. For example, traditionally London is a strong trading market place for fine wines where investors can sell to established wine merchants, which regularly hold fine wine auctions.

Secondly you may face another obstacle in storing your fine wine. In fact you should concern about bad storage and freight as a wine investor. It's advisable for those interested in wines as an investment to consider 'en primeur' or futures, particularly of blue-chip wines like Bordeaux First Growths. If you want to reap the best benefits, you have to buy 'en primeur'.

However, it is very much important to get the right vintage. You need to be an established buyer to catch them at the best prices which is the one of the prime key to buying wine futures. The current market for wines is not as vibrant as in its glorious days of 1980s. No doubt today market has softened. The collector's bubble has somewhat burst since the US economic slowdown.

Today Bordeaux has become a commodity because ninety percent of wines bought for its investment. First Growth Bordeaux would be most in demand but the supply is not exactly small. This is why; if you want to play it safe it is advisable for you to budding wine for well established First Growth Super Chateaux.

You should go for a top vintage at a high price and hope to sell at an even higher price. Ultimately, you will know how much it will rise and what your holding power is. You can also consider taking a punt on top-ranked small production Chateaux like Le Pin, which produces only 500 cases a year. At the end of the day, few in this part of the world take wine investing seriously.