The commodity investments have historically been the minor part of investors’ interests. Thanks to the development of organized markets ruled similarly to the traditional stocks markets, in recent years, their importance noticeably grew. In our paper we use the example of Liv-ex platform based in London to compare their performance to major financial indices as well as the gold price. According to our analysis, fine wine investments were characterized by the very high rates of return and the low level of the risk involved. Moreover, Granger Causality testes revealed only limited dependences between the fine wine indices and financial ones. Overall results, proved, that even in the period of economic distress, alternative investment tools, here represented by fine wine, can constitute an attractive proposition for investors willing to diversify their assets in portfolio.

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