In 2003, a bottle of 1982 Lafite-Rothschild sold for an average amount of $490. Last year, the same bottle sold for $2,586, yielding the seller an annual return of around 70%. Still wondering where to put your cash?

Fine wines have outperformed the top 3000 US stocks over the last 13 years, according to a new report from Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, two Switzerland-based economists who compared Premier Cru vintage wines with the Russell 3000 Index between January 1996 and January 2009.