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Where to store wine

As the results of Robert Rolls' Wine Investment Challenge suggest, wine has been a much better investment than the stock market recently – providing an excellent excuse to buy it even if you fully intend to drink this uniquely delicious commodity. But if you do decide to buy fine wine, where should you keep it?

The glamour of the 2000 red bordeaux vintage enticed all sorts of new recruits to the hazardous business of buying wine long before it is bottled, en primeur, in the hope of future rewards hedonistic and financial.

These wines have now been bottled and...