LIV-EX - MARKET UPDATE

Talking Trade: 8th – 14th April

The Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 has maintained its upward momentum this week, reaching 284.05 on Thursday. This is its highest level since late March 2014. Trade by value and volume on the Exchange was also higher. There has been keen interest in Bordeaux 2013 now the vintage has started to become physically available.

It was a good week for Bordeaux with the region achieving 82.2% of total trade by value, up from 72.4% last week. This is above the March share of 78.1%. The First Growths were well represented with 40.9% of total trade by value. Haut Brion was the top performing amongst the classification. It represented 31% of First Growth market share.

Champagne saw good trade this week with 5.2% market share by value, up from 1.6% last week. The region was boosted by Cristal 2007. This was the third highest wine traded by value and the highest wine traded by volume. The ‘Others’ saw a sharp fall this week with only 2.4% market share compared to 8.7% last week.