There’s investment money in wine, but probably not the kind of money that most of us handle—and not the kind of wine that most of us drink. It's called futures: pre-ordering expensive wine before its ...
BERKELEY — An embattled high-end wine business that customers claimed would take money for wine futures but never deliver the product has filed for bankruptcy. Premier Cru, a Berkeley wine company ...
BERKELEY — An embattled wine business announced it is closing its University Avenue store this week, days after this newspaper reported Premier Cru was facing at least 10 lawsuits over the past year ...
BERKELEY — From 2003 to 2013, Shirlin Wong paid more than $230,000 for hundreds of bottles of wine from Berkeley-based Premier Cru — many of them “wine futures,” or vintages still aging in barrels.
The business of investing in wine futures has always been risky. But now, customers of a large California seller are wondering whether they're victims of an even bigger risk: A pyramid scheme. Several ...
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BERKELEY — An embattled wine business announced it is closing its University Avenue store this week, days after this newspaper reported Premier Cru was facing at least 10 lawsuits over the past year ...
BERKELEY — An embattled wine business announced it is closing its University Avenue store this week, days after this newspaper reported Premier Cru was facing at least 10 lawsuits over the past year ...