Contact & FAQs

Liv-ex is the exchange for fine wine, data and insight. Membership brings wine professionals independent market data and insights, and the ability to price, buy and sell wines through one point of contact.

Membership is open to most wine businesses, including merchants, courtiers, négociants, producers, importers, auction houses and wine investment funds. Trading membership is reserved for professional buyers and sellers of wine – typically wine merchants. Each applicant is vetted and approved by our membership committee, and industry references are required. Data-only membership is available for all wine businesses, providing access to Liv-ex insights, analysis and unique pricing data. Liv-ex does not – and will never – allow private collectors to trade. If you are a fine wine enthusiast, please contact your wine merchant, who can trade on Liv-ex on your behalf. Many merchants can also provide valuations using reliable and accurate Liv-ex data.

Please fill in the short form here. A friendly member of the team will contact you shortly and speak to you about your needs, and we’ll work with you to identify the best solution for you.

Liv-ex exists to make trading fine wine more transparent, efficient, and safe. We invest heavily in our processes and systems, have risk measures in place, and undertake detailed due diligence on our members. However, Liv-ex is not a trade body nor a regulator. We have no oversight or jurisdiction over our members’ controls, records, or dealings with their customers. Liv-ex only accepts wine businesses as members, not private individuals.

Market Intelligence is available exclusively to Liv-ex members. If you represent a wine business, you’re welcome to enquire about membership. If you’re a private collector, you can still access a variety of free blog posts, and some reports are available at no cost – available in the Resource section of the website. Several merchants also share Liv-ex analysis with their customers.

LWIN (Liv-ex Wine Identification Number) is a universal identifier for wines and spirits. It assigns a unique code to more than 200,000 products, functioning like an ISBN for books. This ensures accurate identification and enables seamless information sharing between systems.

LWINs are unique 7, 11, 16 or 18-digit codes. The 7-digit code refers to the wine itself (i.e. the producer and brand, grape or vineyard). The longer codes include information about the vintage, bottle and pack size. (LWIN-7: 1234567 – Winery name, Cabernet I LWIN-11: 12345672012 – Winery name, Cabernet, 2012 I LWIN-16: 1234567201200750 – Winery name, Cabernet, 2012, 750ml bottle size* I LWIN-18: 123456720121200750 – Winery name, Cabernet, 2012, 12 bottles of 750ml. *All bottle sizes are expressed in millilitres in a five-digit format.

You can download the database for free and map the entries manually, one by one. However, the quickest and easiest way to match your list with LWINs is by using our online matching tool, available exclusively to Liv-ex members.

No. The detailed information in LWIN helps to accurately identify and differentiate between wines in a standardised way. LWIN does not contain all of the information that a system might need to track and process stock (e.g. tax status). This kind of information is often set up in a specific way due to how the customer operates, their underlying system, or territory they are based in >LWIN should always be added as a further property of a product code, enabling connectivity without disrupting existing process.