{"id":52904,"date":"2016-06-06T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52904"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:21:23","slug":"hedge-fund-exile-trades-graphs-for-grapes-to-challenge-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2016\/hedge-fund-exile-trades-graphs-for-grapes-to-challenge-champagne.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Exile Trades Graphs for Grapes to Challenge Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) For centuries the rolling hills of Sussex in southern England have grown barley for local beer brewers. Now former hedge-fund manager Mark Driver is replacing the grain on his land with grapes in a bid to challenge Champagne.<\/p>\n<p>Driver, one of a number of exiles from London\u2019s financial district who are investing in U.K. sparkling wine, is spending more than 14 million pounds ($20 million) of his own money to transform Rathfinny Estate, which overlooks the English Channel about 70 miles south of London, into the U.K.\u2019s biggest vineyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-06\/hedge-fund-exile-trades-graphs-for-grapes-to-challenge-champagne\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) For centuries the rolling hills of Sussex in southern England have grown barley for local beer brewers. Now former hedge-fund manager Mark Driver is replacing the grain on his land with grapes in a bid to challenge Champagne. Driver, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52905,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52904\/revisions\/52905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}