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August Market Report 2025

The Liv-ex August Market Report 2025 compares current conditions with past downturns and considers whether prices are close to bottoming out. After the longest downturn in decades, the fine wine market may be nearing a turning point.  An increased willingness to spend paired with lower prices may be enough to draw us towards recovery.

The topics covered in the Liv-ex August Market Report 2025:

Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Dipped Below 2018 Peak : YTD, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 is down 4.9%. In its root causes and duration, we can draw the strongest comparison of the current downturn to that of 2011. 

Key Stock Indices Hit All-Time Highs – Good News For Fine Wine Trade: Only a tiny fraction of the equity market needs to be reinvested into wine for the trade to see a serious increase in demand. 

Is a Demand-Supply Balance Reset Approaching?: The exchange’s overall bid:offer ratio (by value) currently sits at 0.15. During the 2008 financial crisis, the ratio feel to 0.1.

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