Collecting Things That BECOME Valuable Later

Quick note first: I had to go back and edit a few things in the last article - somehow, things were being altered from the original text during the upload; very weird...

Anyhow.

A point was raised in one of the private forums - people were sort of complaining that we all tend to miss out on 'collecting' that one thing that becomes a valuable 'thing' later on. I had been talking about how Chateau Angelus wine went up from thirty dollars a bottle maybe just even five years ago to its current price of around five hundred dollars.

This is from a Bordeaux wine industry function

Well one of the key factors that economists sometimes talk about but for everyone else it is completely counter-intuitive - is supply; it's not really rarity as such that drives prices up, it's how much genuine authentic demand you can procure from an actual marketplace and such things need an adequate supply of the 'thing' otherwise people just get frustrated and soon the demand dries up as a result. Even when you are talking about pure rarity and not intrinsic function or aesthetic appeal, in fact communication about the knowledge of the 'thing' in question must be extensive - super wealthy people like it to be known that they have acquired something worth a ton of money. When you are talking about secret Swiss collectors having or hording some stolen thing or virtually 'sacred' piece of art or whatever, this is something different - there the item does not have marketable valuable as such so owning it won't itself add to your own financial wealth.

So if you let's say for example, take the case of a big German industrial house 'getting behind' some French wine or other, then, they will 'arrange' for the market to move via highly specialized marketing and planting of reviews by experts, and even actually adding to the production standards and quality through increasing of their investment dollar into the product. You can imagine a hypothetical instance of a lesser-known French wine brand, that some major investment powerhouse pushed hard into the nascent China luxury and high net worth consumer market - with the effect that examples of the wine you might have collected rose in market price.

The Palais Garnier in Paris, which is a 'mysterious place...'

Bordeaux and Burgundies and Champagnes are not the only wines made in France of a very high standard. The Savoy wines (Savoie wine) are a case in point - but you will hardly ever see them talked about as things you want to collect because they might go up in value one day... But why not? Some of the greatest wines in the world are Savoy wines. In terms of classical economic theory though, they are not made in as great a supply as the Grand Cru wines of the South and West of France, AND ARE ALL ANNUALLY BOUGHT UP ENTIRELY AND DRUNK BY THE LOCALS THEMSELVES.

Which is not to say you will be unable to buy a bottle and have it shipped to you anywhere in the world.

But no one in the world of 'wine experts' expects these wines to go up in value and so why should you ever 'collect' them?

Big industrial houses have not shown any interest in investing in the Savoy wine region. So much so that these bottles have some of the most pathetically designed labels you will ever find anywhere!

Now...

This is not one of the bad-looking labels; I hate those labels
so much I didn't even post a pic here!

...Now, but now, hear me now: the greatest wine in the history of the world of all time, which was known by a particular name, was the Falernian - this is a legendary wine, from a legendary vineyard in Italy - and in fact one particular ancient vineyard's product has a mythical status, and was even in its day regarded as the best wine of all: and this was from the vineyard of a man called Faustus. It wasn't a red wine but neither was it exactly a white one either...

Falernian wine was regarded by some Romans as literally being the wine invented by the god Bacchus (Dionysus). And that would have been in Persia that he made that wine...

Now. See, there is today a rare wine from Savoy in North-Eastern France, known as 'Persan,' and it is quite rare. Savoy wines can be red but mostly they are white wines and there are also rose-colored wines as well.

Persan is called that because its grape was originally thought to be from Persia. 

The best versions of Persan wine are an incredible color, neither exactly white nor rose or red but kind of pinkish-orange. They are not expensive at all.

So when you set about to 'collect' something, you must decided whether you are having it because of its intrinsic worth to you or to experts or people who already love the thing - or whether you can perceive there will or might be some input by big players who will alter the monetary dynamics that pertain to the product or 'thing.'

Persan wine can and will last in the bottle, oh, um, under the right circumstances for thousands of years.

What color is this?

A god is a god is a god, you know, and the teaching is, that once having come into contact with a god, or anything that has had contact with the divine being, you will yourself never be abandoned by Heaven.

But there is a great barrier and a small doorway between Heaven and the Earth, which may not be passed except by the admittance of sentinels of god and of Heaven as such, depending on however you define Heaven and 'god' but it amounts to the same thing - the Absolute Judge of what is good is God Himself; and the absolute judge of good wine is equivalently God Himself too and no other. Al Hakim ul Muksit - the Absolute Judge. Look this up in the Koran and you will see these names attached to the god of wine... And this is a great mystery of course since commonly speaking Muslims consider alcohol unlawful and there is no specific 'god of wine' as far as they commonly think but it is in the Koran in a place few notice. Thereby is the doorway and the bridge to the impassable barrier between the mortal and the immortal Heaven; on one side the ignorant must remain and die, and on the other side, is knowledge and Life.

Ah but we want money primarily not knowledge nor yet Life. LOL - the rest of the great mythologies relate this account of one 'Midas' who asked Bacchus the God of Wine for money AND wine and Life, and so it is possible to have it all even according to the mythologies themselves. 

One of the most fascinating things is to step into, a place that you suspect could be 'mysterious ground' so to speak - and, knowing the mythologies you spend some time considering what to ask for.