Trade with fine drops: Wine Owners is online

UK (London) – Again a wine trading platform, the product range of which is addressing to private as well as to commercial customers, is trying to succeed. The Wine Owners portal, which has just been opened, has as much as just under 400 select wines in its portfolio by now; they can be sold or purchased. Among them, there are as fine drops as Château Angélus (2,860 euro per case), Les Forts de Latour (1,880 euro per case) and also 2002 Dom Pérignon at 1,425 euro.

Bordeaux En Primeur: Château Margaux price decreases by one third

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – The Mouton Rothschild and Margaux châteaux seem to have made a price agreement because after Mouton reported 240 euro ex Bordeaux at the En Primeur campaign, Margaux followed last week with also 240...

Bordeaux En Primeur: Decreasing prices but no spectacular price reduction

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – Despite a tough struggle about prices, the speed of the 2013 En Primeur campaign is astonishing: Every day, further châteaux reveal their market prices. Last week, for instance, a series of estates...

Cautious optimism after Lynch Bages price offensive

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – After the first week of the En Primeur campaign, optimism is spreading within the world of wine due to the decreasing prices of the Bordeaux châteaux. After Mouton Rothschild (we reported: "Château...

Bordeaux En Primeur: Château Mouton Rothschild reports 240 euro

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – The Mouton Rothschild château is the first one of the big châteaux to report the price for the 2012 vintage: 240 euro, equaling 2,880 euro per case (12 bottles). From the point of view of the...

The small châteaux are reporting, the big ones are still reluctant

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – Last week, the En Primeur campaign was opened by two Cru Bourgeois. Château Sénéjac reported 7.80 euro ex Bordeaux (five percent less than past year), and château Belle Vue reported 8.30 euro ex...

So far, just under 6,000 visitors counted during first week of the En Primeur tasting in Bordeaux

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – According to official sources, the En Primeur tasting has counted 5,800 registered tasters during its first week, most of them being traders, journalists and wine professionals who wanted to taste...

Bordeaux 2012 leaves mediocre aftertaste

UK (London) – It's easy to tell what wine critics thought when they had a chance to get their hands on the 2012 Bordeaux vintage through a selection from Libournais. A total of 35 producers from St. Emilion, Pomerol...

Bordeaux 2012: Announcement of prices expected for this week

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - Experts expect most of the châteaux to publish their prices. Château Gazin in Pomerol and Rauzan Ségla in Margaux announced in the media to announce their prices early. So, the others probably will...

Wine consumption in Italy declines by one fifth

ITALY (Rome) – The ongoing economic crisis does not only upset the Italians’ stomach but as well their purse. According to a report now published by Coldiretti, Italy’s biggest farmers’ association, the...

LIV-EX publishes newest classification for Bordeaux 1855

UK (London) – After 2011, the London International Vintage Exchange (LIV-EX*) has now published its adapted classification of 1855, which professionals and investors had been waiting for. Château Latour and Château...