It's widely known that nothing ages better than a fine wine, and now a team from Stellenbosch University has combined finance and the science of wine  to develop a fine wine index that proves the positive value of the beverage as an investment asset. Together with honours students; Anton Blignaut and Jean-Pierre Viljoen, Dr Mesias Alfeus, a lecturer of Financial Risk Management in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has co-authored a paper that looks at an investment model for fine wine in South Africa. The Index will be used to evaluate wine as a financial asset and it also recognises rich heritage of SA wine. We spoke to Dr Mesias Alfeus to tell us more about this interesting innovation..