Monetary fear the price of gold has literally explode. However, exclusive wines and whiskeys rise faster in value.
It is better than gold, and not just because it shines even more beautiful than the precious metal. Not only because it tastes and smells better, but because it has proven to be the more lucrative form of investment: whiskey. Since 2009, the highest price drop has more than doubled. Thus the noble distillate proposes virtually any other investment by far.
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international shares became more expensive in the past year and a half to less than five percent, German bonds provided ten percent rate of return and self Gold was down "only" about 60 percent - and although the most severe financial and debt crisis led to an explosion since the seventies in the Western economies, the demand for the precious metal almost.
whiskeys are already no longer a pure beverage and status symbol anymore. Rather, they rank among the initiated property, . In times of monetary fear, losing more and more people trust in euros and dollars, they gain additional stimulus.
traders see an intensifying demand for fine wine as an investment good. "The people come into my store and ask what to buy it in order to secure their retirement," says Uwe Wagmüller from Finest Whisky in Berlin. "If you invest properly in whiskey can experience a real return-to-noise."
experts invest only in rare
Who buys a box of Johnnie Walker Red Label must not hope for a super return. This Bottles with "Striding Man found technoloically supermarket shelves this world. On Red Label misses the collector as the investor the extraordinary, something special. This blend of whiskeys is thus a different origin composed drops, and always taste the same everywhere.
shimmer, some names, without being particularly distinguished themselves by taste or scarcity. Port Ellen, Ardbeg, Strathisla, Brora be collectors' hearts beat faster. Of the Bruichladdich distillery or Bowmore all, few bottles to stand out from the crowd.
shortage by closing the distillery
A godsend for lovers and investors are whiskeys from "lost distillery, distilleries that have long since been closed or temporarily. This is liable to drop the golden aura of irrevocability. This superlative the shortage means that the collectors to the rare eat and are willing to pay almost any price.
The Ardbeg distillery closed down temporarily put a halt just before her first with a standard whiskey standards. The "Ardbeg 10" was to have in the eighties for 15 € - now changes the substance, long revered as a legend taste, for not less than 500 € the owner. "On the Scottish island of Islay whiskey fills the host for 500 pounds or just under 600 € the glass. Realistically, would be in a bar 100 euros," says Greg Haslam of whiskey Spirits in Frankfurt.
