A new site was launched this week looking at the investment potential of Bordaux wines (good luck to them launching this week with the stock market crashes).

The web address is:
www.statwine.com/

And after looking round the site this morning, it looks like a provides a very well researched, comprehensive database. Each chateau has a fact sheet that looks at the key personnel and contacts, plus the place of the chateau within the appellation, the plantations in the vineyard (% of different grape varieties), statistics and analysis, commentary on how they are progressing, ageing potential and tasting notes.

Each chateau is then given a quality scored, taking into account parameters such as the overall quality (score) and the wine's regularity over the years (standard deviation). In their model, the score counts for 70% and regularity 30%.

The information is not free, but it sounds like an interesting addition to current investment information.