A top maker of classified French Bordeaux wines is worried that new money pouring into the wine market could turn fine bottles into collectors' items bought for investment rather than to drink.
Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, a former actress who heads one of the best known Bordeaux vineyards owned by descendants of the banking family, also said that recent price rises could turn out to be just a speculative bubble if buyers chose to spend their money on other status symbols.