Updates to Liv-ex 100 announced

Liv-ex has announced that it has made a number of changes to the Liv-ex 100 index in its annual update, with two Bordeaux labels now being listed for the first time.

Every year Liv-ex updates its benchmark index to better reflect the labels seeing increased trade on its exchange and that are attracting positive critical opinion, as well as switching out older, less liquid vintages with ones that have become physical most recently.

A total of 22 wines have been removed from the index this year, largely claret from the late 1990s and the 2009 and 2010 vintages from certain key labels in Burgundy, the Rhône and California.

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They have been replaced, predominantly, by 2009 and 2010 Bordeaux and the 2012 and 2013 vintages from Burgundy etc.

This year also marks the first time that Haut-Bailly and Smith Haut-Lafitte have been included in the Liv-ex 100- both represented by their 2009 wines.

Twenty-six of the 100 wines on the index are now from Burgundy, Italy, Champagne, Rhône, Spain, the US and Australia.

Wines removed from the Liv-ex 100 this year include: 1996 Lafite, Latour, Margaux and Léoville Las Cases; 2005 Palmer; 2012 Armand Rousseau Chambertin; 2006 Cristal; 2010 Opus One; 2004 Vega Sicilia ‘Unico’; 2010 DRC La Tache and 2010 Clos Papes.

Wines added include: 2009 Palmer; 2010 Angelus, Margaux, La Mission Haut-Brion, Petrus, Pavie; 2012 DRC Romanée-Conti; 2007 Cristal; 2012 Opus One and Screaming Eagle’ 2012 Clos Papes and 2012 Comte de Vogüé Musigny Vieilles Vignes.

The Bordeaux 500 and Fine Wine 50 (the first growth tracker) have also been updated, with the 2003 vintage moved out to make way for the now physical 2013s. Both indices now track 2004-2013.

For the full list of new additions to the Liv-ex 100 click here.