Fine Wine
A market whose supply shrinks every year, priced monthly on a London exchange, three years into a drawdown. Vintages, regions, storage, and the honest long-run record.
Desk data as of 2026-09-08 · Invest Alternative radar
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Fine Wine
Built on Liv-ex Fine Wine 100monthly
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- 7D
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- 30D
- +0.66%
- 1Y
- +3.27%
The guide
The guide
Investing in Fine Wine
A €30B market whose supply shrinks every year and whose returns have trailed equities since 1900.
Inside · 16 sections
The asset that disappears · The honest track record · The regions, one by one · How you actually get in · The IA view
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Articles
5 on wine · free to read
Guide·
Investing in Bordeaux
The world’s most liquid wine, whose futures system has lost buyers money on most vintages since 2016.
37 min read
Guide·
Investing in Burgundy and Champagne
Burgundy and Champagne are allocation markets where access, not analysis, sets the return.
40 min read
Guide·
Investing in Whisky Casks
Casks are sold by unregulated brokers at prices no public market quotes; bottles have a real auction record.
47 min read
Guide·
Investing in Wine Through Platforms and Funds
Managed wine platforms charge 2–3% a year on an asset that has returned about 5% before costs.
42 min read
Guide·
How Fine Wine Became an Asset Class
An asset whose supply shrinks every year, priced for 150 years inside a closed loop of merchants — and what changed when the trades finally went public.
10 min read
Recent sales and data
As of 2026-09-08
Data we track
The observations the desk collects each day, unadjusted. Change is against the prior observation, so a monthly series shows a monthly move. Each row carries the date of its last observation.
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