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We are pleased to announce a new chapter for our market leading Insights product, with the hiring of Rupert Millar (@wineguroo) as Managing Editor & Felicity Carter (@FelicityCarter) as Editorial Consultant: liv-ex.com/2021/02/press-rel…
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The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index has fallen every month for the last year bit.ly/1dKs4lp
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Jane Anson has published her scores on the Bordeaux 2021 vintage, giving her top score to Château Haut-Brion’s white wine. zpr.io/QNVv6QsnvB2R
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#Bdx19: Mouton Rothschild 2019 has been released at €282 per bottle ex-negociant, down 30.8% on the release price of the 2018 (€408). Analysis to follow.
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The @wstauk is calling upon all UK wine businesses to take immediate action to protect their businesses, staff and consumers by writing to their MPs. Find out how and why in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3jPOPb2 @WSTA_Miles @hjpmiles
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“Sassicaia has taken its rightful place in the pantheon of the world’s great wines.” - @WineSpectator
Find out more about the Wine Spectator’s top 10 wines of 2018: bit.ly/lxwstop10
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.@Decanter has now published @newbordeaux #bdx18 En Primeur report, as well as her top-scoring wines from the vintage.
Find out more: bit.ly/jansonbdx18
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In 2020, the global marketplace for the wine trade celebrates its 20th birthday.
Now you can take a retrospective look at the significant events that have helped shape the fine wine market we see today and might see tomorrow. #LXisXX
Find out more: bit.ly/lxisxxfwm
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Robert Parker (@Wine_Advocate) has influenced fine wine prices numerous times over his career. Here at Liv-ex we have enjoyed watching and commenting on the market’s reaction and we would like to wish Robert Parker all the best with his future endeavours. bit.ly/tt240519
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#Bdx19: Latour 2012 has been released at €350 per bottle ex-negociant, down 22.2% on the 2011 re-release ex-negociant price of €450. Analysis to follow.
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Last year we interviewed @Decanter's Bordeaux correspondent, @newbordeaux. In the interview, she talks Bordeaux 2016, wine criticism and her career: bit.ly/2pYjrvC
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Bordeaux 2018 will be a vintage of 'two halves' according to @GavinQuinney of @ChateauBauduc.
In his latest post, he summarises everything you need to know about this year's growing season, so far: bit.ly/bdx18
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"Bordeaux 2017 production figures by Appellation – the haves and the have-nots", by @GavinQuinney: bit.ly/2Fjd1BG
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As alternative investments gain popularity, @bloomberg discuss the Liv-ex 100, the industry’s benchmark index. Watch the full video here: bloom.bg/3nRCwPH
#alternativeinvestments #wineinvestment #bloomberg #livex #burgundy
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The following table ranks Bordeaux’s sub-regions by their highest average trade prices and compares their average critic scores.
Liv-ex members can read more analysis and find the latest live Bordeaux offers here: bit.ly/32lDet4
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“Rating wines is like driving a car; the person in front of you is going too slow, and the person flying by you is crazy”, says @jebdunnuck.
Find out more about his approach to wine criticism in our latest interview: bit.ly/lxjdunnuck
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"The damage is localised, with terrible impact on some vineyards, while neighbouring vines can be untouched. It’s a case of the unlucky few – and phew for everyone else."
- @GavinQuinney on hail in Bordeaux this week. Read more here: bit.ly/bdx18hail
#bdx17 #bdx18
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.@Wine_Advocate has just published @LisaPBMW’s #bdx18 En Primeur report – “Extreme Vintage”.
Find out more about her top-scoring wines: bit.ly/lpbwbdx18
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Alcohol levels in wine are rising and here’s the proof: bit.ly/35N2ycZ #wine
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"Liv-ex’s California 50 index has risen by 76% in five years, aided by a run of good vintages and scarcity of older wines, the global wine marketplace said in its September Cellar Watch report". - @Decanter
Read the full article by @mercerchris here: bit.ly/decanterlxcali
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Liv-ex trades English wine for first time, as reported by @teamdb: bit.ly/2b08kuA #englishwine @Nyetimber
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The regional distribution of the wines awarded 100-point scores in 2023, which are spread across five countries, is interesting.
Discover more: bit.ly/3Msaq9R
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown has released her scores for the Bordeaux 2015 vintage in bottle, her first report as the official @Wine_Advocate reviewer for the region: bit.ly/2BIrjti @LisaPBMW
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“It’s a magic wine because it really has a very, very strong personality” – CEO of Masseto: bit.ly/2tNOk7Q
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Telmo Rodriguez’s Yjar 2017, “a cult wine in the making”, according to @janeansonwine, has been released internationally for £924 per 12×75 case. Read the full pricing analysis here: bit.ly/2Z3DPkP
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In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay we have published the following article by @FelicityCarter on the changing rights of succession, the impact of recent ownership changes & what this might mean for the future of the wine industry: bit.ly/3bopcME #wine
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The production figures for #bdx18 are now in. In today’s post, Bordeaux grower, winemaker and writer @GavinQuinney looks at what the numbers tell us about the vintage.
Find out more: bit.ly/bdx18fig
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"For now, I will just say I've tasted some extraordinary surprises... and some very average ones."
The latest article by @LisaPBMW on the @Wine_Advocate offers an early view of #bdx17:
bit.ly/2FO41W3
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Fine Wine is “one of the strongest investment classes out there”, via @MarketWatch: on.mktw.net/2cI9os4
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Having recently published his verdict on #bdx18, @jebdunnuck kindly set some time aside to share his thoughts about the vintage and the future of wine criticism with Liv-ex.
Read the full interview here: bit.ly/lxjdunnuck
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“After I acquired those first 40 acres, it took another 12 years before we sold our 1st bottle of wine. That was 12 years without a nickel of revenue – only money going out. It was another 8 years before we broke even.” – Bill Harlan. bit.ly/Harlanpt1
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“Liv-ex provided some brilliant data on wider trends and the performance in the secondary market of individual estates.”
Read the full article on @Decanter, in which @newbordeaux compares the last five great Bordeaux vintages: bit.ly/jabrdx
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Dominus 2016 released.
"If I could give more than 100 for this one, I would." - @LisaPBMW @Wine_Advocate
See price analysis: bit.ly/dominus16
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"The broadening of the fine wine market beyond Bordeaux to not only Burgundy in France, but also Italy, Spain, the U.S., and beyond, is evident in Liv-ex’s latest classification", says @aschultzpenta in her latest article for @barronsonline.
Read it here: bit.ly/barronslxclass
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You can now compare Bordeaux 2016 scores from @JamesSuckling, @jmolesworth1 and @jmquarin on Liv-ex Insights: bit.ly/2nr698V #bdx16
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"Scarcity and complexity have made Pinot Noir a new status symbol", says @TheEconomist. Read the full article here: bit.ly/economistburgundy
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In 2019, #ChineseNewYear falls on Tuesday February 5th and its correspondent animal is the pig. For the upcoming festivities, we have selected ten fine wines from previous pig zodiac years: 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995 and 2007.
Find out more: bit.ly/2BbqasU
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Compare #bdx17 scores from the following critics on Liv-ex: bit.ly/bdx17scores
- @newbordeaux
- @jebdunnuck
- @rebeccagibb
- Julia Harding MW
- @MatthewSJukes
- @JeffLeve
- @jmolesworth1
- @LisaPBMW
- @jmquarin
- @GavinQuinney
- @JamesSuckling
- @vossroger
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Bordeaux 2016 production by Appellation – inside @GavinQuinney’s latest report: bit.ly/2lqeGuH #bdx16
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"Sterling's weakness against the Dollar means fine wine prices are becoming more affordable to American and Asian buyers," says Justin Gibbs, deputy chairman and exchange director at Liv-ex." @WineSearcher @SustainableKW
Read the full article here: bit.ly/3UyDDCf
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"2017 Bordeaux En Primeur - The Vintage Divergence", via @LisaPBMW for @Wine_Advocate.
Including 3 potential 100-point wines.
See Lisa Perotti-Brown's #bdx17 scores for the vintage here: bit.ly/2r54nNR
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"The prices of the world's top 1,000 crus rose by 264% in the 15 years to end-February, according to Liv-ex, a wine-trading platform, beating both the FTSE 100 (61%) and S&P 500 (144%) equities indices." - @TheEconomist
Read the full article here: bit.ly/livexecon
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In his report on #bdx16, @jebdunnuck awarded 11 wines a perfect 100 points.
See price analysis here: bit.ly/jdbdx16
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Ausone 2018 released.
"An incredible wine" - @newbordeaux (@Decanter)
See price analysis: bit.ly/Ausone18 #bdx18
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In an open letter to @BorisJohnson Liv-ex's @hjpmiles proposes an alternative solution which would make a success of #Brexit for the #UK #wineindustry.
Read it on @reactionlife here: bit.ly/34zKClV
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"'Wines that are ‘great’ need, at the very least, two attributes: quality and personality,' says Justin Gibbs, co-founder of global trading platform Liv-ex, which publishes one of the most influential indexes for fine wine." - @AliceLascelles @FT bit.ly/303mI0Q
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"Liv-ex has revealed the ‘most wanted’ fine wines on its platform broken down by geographic location, with Bordeaux ruling the roost", says @wineguroo from @teamdb.
Read his latest article here: bit.ly/dblxmostwanted
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Dominus 2018 traded at a new high after being named Wine Spectator’s ‘Wine of the Year’ but is there value in older vintages?
bit.ly/32hy58w
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2022 is the year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac. Previous ‘Tiger’ vintages include 2010, 1998, 1986, 1962 and 1950. Which have been the most in-demand ‘Tiger’ wines?
bit.ly/3HTf8bU
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'@newbordeaux and @jebdunnuck have come out with a number of scores for Bordeaux 2015. They have found perfection in several bottles and both critics agree that Margaux and @Chateau_Figeac are worthy of triple-digit scores: bit.ly/2GwCULQ
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Following the news of Château Lafon-Rochet's sale, we take a look at the wine's presence in the secondary market. Find out more here: bit.ly/3ngUprf
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The Liv-ex annual report on Bordeaux has now been released.
In this year’s in-depth report, we explore the current position of the Bordeaux market, the quality and quantity of the 2017 vintage and the importance of fair pricing.
bit.ly/2q7FbWq #bdx17
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Opus One 2016 has been released.
"A very decadent expression of Opus One" - @LisaPBMW (@Wine_Advocate)
See price analysis: bit.ly/OpusOne16
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"Palmer’s willingness to cut prices was generally welcomed in Bordeaux on Monday" via @Decanter.
bit.ly/palmerreleased #bdx17
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Château Lafite Rothschild’s price premium versus the other First Growths tumbled from 129% a decade ago to just over 20% in 2017. With trade in the estate building, that premium is growing once more.
bit.ly/3aJgjvL
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"Châteaux Calon Ségur and Carmes Haut-Brion have both issued statements of intent with significant price increases for their 2018 en primeur releases".
Read the latest article by @Decanter here: bit.ly/DecanterLX #bdx18
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Lafite Rothschild 2018 released.
"If this wine doesn’t get Bordeaux lovers hearts’ racing, nothing will.” - @LisaPBMW (@Wine_Advocate)
See price analysis: bit.ly/Lafite18 #bdx18
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The UK inflation rate increased to 9% in April. Today we examine the possible advantages of investing in fine wine during difficult times. zpr.io/8ZG2vdSZuBeN
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Liv-ex recently caught up with @newbordeaux (@Decanter) on the #bdx20 vintage, being able to taste at the chateaux and her insider tips on the wines of the vintage. Watch the full interview and see top-scoring wines here: bit.ly/3bH4043
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Liv-ex interview Jane Anson, author of Inside Bordeaux and founder of zpr.io/7VJegF8qkwpc, to talk about the Bordeaux 2021 vintage. zpr.io/XP368gCp99ev
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“Our judges praised Liv-ex’s innovative LWIN system ... and applauded the company’s 'generous and selfless' decision to make the service free for other companies to use, acting 'for the greater good of the wine trade' says @teamdb.
bit.ly/2LGFi5q
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"The UK wine sector has grown into an industry which supports 130,000 jobs, contributes £19 billion in economic activity, and wine is now UK’s favourite drink.", says @WSTA_Miles.
Read the full interview here: bit.ly/milesbealelx
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“Every Bordeaux lover out there should have 2016s in their cellars” - @jebdunnuck
Find out more about Dunnuck's top scoring wines from the vintage here: bit.ly/jdbdx16
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California’s wine prices have risen 31.9% in the past year while the region has continued to gain market share. zpr.io/n53cPg2nMpHD
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Liv-ex #bdx17 survey results:
- Wine of the vintage = Petrus
- Grand Puy Lacoste tops value for money category for 8th year in a row
- The vintage scored 92.6/100
- 80% of merchants expect less demand than 2016
- € release prices expected 11.5% lower
bit.ly/LXsurvey
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Liv-ex - your source of fine wine price analysis throughout this year's En Primeur campaign.
For the latest analysis follow the #bdx18 hashtag, or visit our Bordeaux 2018 pages here: bit.ly/Bdx18livex
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In July the market saw three times the amount of trades for wines from the Rhone than in January, with 60% more buyers and 73% more sellers contributing to activity.
(Liv-ex members only) Find out more: bit.ly/3g5uVpM
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Ridge Monte Bello 2017 – “destined to rank as one of the all-time greats from Ridge” says @wgfkelley for @Wine_Advocate.
See price analysis on the release: bit.ly/RidgeMonteBello17
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Vega Sicilia, Unico 2010 is said to be "certainly the best Unico I have tasted." - Peter Dean @TweetaDean @TVegaSicilia
See how it compares to the previous vintages in our new post.
bit.ly/VSUnico10
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“I can unhesitatingly say that 2019 is a successful vintage in Bordeaux”. Jane Anson @newbordeaux @Decanter #Bdx19
Find out more: bit.ly/3eFj7KU
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The Liv-ex February Market Report has been released.
Containing the latest Liv-ex research and analysis, the full issue includes: Bdx08; Burgundy release prices; Top 5 Champagne movers & @jebdunnuck on Northern Rhone 15. To read the report, click here: bit.ly/2Ef7kkt
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#Bdx19: Palmer has been released at €161 ex-negociant, down 33% on last year's release. Analysis to follow.
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Fine wine’s benchmark index, the Liv-ex 100, closed October at 372.44 – an all-time high – during its most bullish period to date. zpr.io/aqEsyE9ffEY8
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Masseto 2016 has been released.
"Unquestionably one of the greatest expressions of Merlot in the world” - @jebdunnuck
See price analysis: bit.ly/Masseto16
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The top traded wine this week was once again Wine Spectator’s wine of the year: Sassicaia 2015.
It was the top traded wine by both value and volume in November and has been among the most active wines for the past three weeks: bit.ly/tt71218
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Bordeaux 2017 - A risky strategy? Our concluding report on the campaign has now been published.
You can download the eight pages of analysis here: liv-ex.com/2018/06/special-r…
#bdx17
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“It’s a Left Bank year", according to @JamesSuckling who released further #bdx16 scores on Friday :bit.ly/2nO6O5j
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"Before the fine wine market nosedived back in 2011, the most tradeable wines were almost all from Bordeaux. The region accounted for 95% of trades on Liv-ex." - @Decanter
Read the full article here: bit.ly/decanterlivexwine
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“There is little doubt—Italy is in the spotlight. With its international brand strength, critical acclaim and volume appeal, Sassicaia would seem to be the Michelangelo of this modern Italian Renaissance.”
Read our latest post on @Wine_Advocate here: bit.ly/livexwa
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See #bdx15 critic scores side by side - including @nealmartin, @JamesSuckling, @Decanter... bit.ly/25nEHtQ
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The five Super Tuscans are all outperforming the Italy 100 index, led by the 2019 vintage of Tignanello and Sassicaia 2018. zpr.io/8ZG2vdSZuBeN
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Louis Roederer Cristal 2008 was the most active wine on Liv-ex by both value and volume for the second week in a row: bit.ly/TTAug03
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