Visual and UI Designer

Location: Borough, London

Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related bonus, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.

About Liv-ex

We offer a multitude of business services covering trading opportunities, data, logistics and various automation technologies; aimed at a diverse group of wine businesses, from ambitious young start-ups to established merchants and traders.

Our aim is to make the wine trade more transparent, efficient and safe, for the benefit of our members and the market as a whole.

We are hardworking, committed and action oriented, retaining a valued neutrality in the market.

Founded in 2000, Liv-ex has grown to serve a growing number of members in the B2B sector, with an ever-expanding range of services. We help our members and other stakeholders to better understand the fine wine market and identify profit opportunities.

Summary Purpose

We’re seeking a craft-led Visual and UI Designer to raise the aesthetic ceiling of our product and brand.

You will join a product team with strong UX foundations already in place. Your role is to complement that strength by owning the visual execution, UI quality, and overall design polish across our merchant-facing products and key brand touchpoints. From translating robust UX into high-fidelity interfaces, to ensuring our product, marketing, and investor materials feel cohesive and premium, this role is pivotal in how Liv-ex is perceived.

As our products evolve toward more AI-assisted and agentic workflows, you will ensure these experiences remain calm, premium, and highly controllable, using clear visual structure and elegant interaction states around the conversational layer.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role, focused less on discovery and more on taste, craft, and execution excellence.

Responsibilities:

• UI and Visual Excellence: Translate UX wireframes and interaction models into high-fidelity, production-ready UI that feels calm, intentional, and premium, even in dense, data-heavy contexts.
• Visual Hierarchy and Craft: Apply strong principles of layout, spacing, typography, colour, and rhythm to elevate the final 10% of product design where quality is truly perceived.
• Design System Stewardship: Work within an existing design system to raise its visual quality bar, extending components, variants, tokens, and motion/interaction states with discipline and consistency.
• Brand and Product Alignment: Act as a visual authority across Product and Marketing, ensuring a shared aesthetic language across software, decks, sales materials, and key marketing assets.
• Agentic UI Craft (visual-first): Design the visual surfaces that make agentic experiences feel premium and safe: action cards, review and approval states, confirmations, provenance displays, and elegant uncertainty and error states. This is not about building “a chat UI”, it is about making the system feel trustworthy and beautiful around the conversation.
• Premium Interaction States: Define and polish key states like loading, waiting, partial results, “agent is working”, and “needs your input”, ensuring these moments feel composed, not clunky.
• AI-Accelerated Design: Use AI tools to explore visual directions and accelerate iteration, applying judgment and taste to shape final outputs.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience as a senior Visual Designer, UI Designer, or crafted Product Designer, with clear ownership of high-fidelity execution in B2B or data heavy products.
• Exceptional visual taste, with a strong internal compass for typography, grids, spacing, hierarchy, and restraint.
• UI-first mindset: Deep care for how interfaces look and feel once they are built, not just how they work in theory.
• B2B design maturity: Ability to make products feel premium, credible, and confident without relying on gimmicks or over illustration.
• Expert Figma skills, including components, variants, variables, and design tokens.
• Strong visual background, formal or portfolio led, in Visual Design, Graphic Design, or Visual Communication.
• Collaborative approach: Comfortable working alongside UX designers, engineers, and marketers without duplicating responsibilities.
• Experience designing complex, data heavy, or financial products.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS or modern frontend frameworks.

Why Join Liv-ex

• High Impact: Directly shape how our products and brand are perceived by a global, professional audience.
• Clear Design Mandate: With strong UX in place, this role exists to own taste, polish, and visual authority.
• Cross Functional Influence: Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data/AI and Marketing to create a unified design language.
• Culture: A pragmatic, quality driven environment that values restraint, clarity, and craft over noise.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected]

Data Scientist

Location: Borough, London

Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related bonus, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.

About Liv-ex

We offer a multitude of business services covering trading opportunities, data, logistics and various automation technologies; aimed at a diverse group of wine businesses, from ambitious young start-ups to established merchants and traders.

Our aim is to make the wine trade more transparent, efficient and safe, for the benefit of our members and the market as a whole.

We are hardworking, committed and action oriented, retaining a valued neutrality in the market.

Founded in 2000, Liv-ex has grown to serve a growing number of members in the B2B sector, with an ever-expanding range of services. We help our members and other stakeholders to better understand the fine wine market and identify profit opportunities.

Summary Purpose

We’re seeking a Data Scientist to join our growing data team and drive the development of machine learning systems that power our wine exchange and data platform. You’ll work on challenging problems at the intersection of NLP, recommendation systems, and time-series forecasting, building production-grade ML solutions that directly impact our merchants’ trading decisions and operational efficiency.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI/ML projects including semantic search systems, hybrid recommendation engines, and predictive models, all applied to the unique domain of fine wine trading.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for complex NLP tasks including entity matching, semantic search, and text classification
• Build and maintain recommendation systems combining collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and business rule layers
• Develop time-series forecasting models to predict market trends, pricing dynamics, and merchant behaviour
• Fine-tune and deploy transformer-based models (BERT, sentence transformers, cross-encoders) for production use
• Implement ML pipelines on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Databricks) using PySpark for large-scale data processing
• Work with vector databases for semantic search and similarity matching at scale
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate ML models into production systems via REST APIs and batch processing
• Conduct A/B testing and develop evaluation frameworks to measure model performance and business impact
• Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code following software engineering best practices

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years in data science or ML engineering, taking projects from research to production.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics; PhD welcome).
• Strong foundation in statistical learning, classical ML (e.g., random forests, gradient boosting), and model evaluation/validation.
• Hands-on experience with modern NLP, including transformer models, embeddings, and semantic search (experience building RAG systems is highly desirable).
• Bonus points: Experience with recommendation systems, time-series forecasting, or fine-tuning models like BERT.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills, with a focus on writing scalable, production-ready code.
• Experience with cloud services (ideally AWS) and collaborative version control (Git).
• Strong software engineering practices, including testing, documentation and transitioning from notebooks to production codebases.
• Bonus points: Proficiency with PySpark, Databricks, and deploying models (MLflow, APIs).
• Highly analytical problem solver who can break down complex issues.
• Excellent communicator capable of explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and working cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently, and prioritise effectively.

Why Join Liv-ex

• Work on unique ML problems in the fine wine domain with real business impact
• Modern tech stack: Python, PySpark, Databricks, AWS, transformer models
• Collaborative data team environment with opportunities to shape architecture decisions
• Exposure to the full ML lifecycle from research to production deployment
• Opportunity to work on multiple project types: NLP, recommender systems, forecasting, and more

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected]

Machine Learning Engineer

Location: Borough, London

Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related bonus, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.

About Liv-ex

We offer a multitude of business services covering trading opportunities, data, logistics and various automation technologies; aimed at a diverse group of wine businesses, from ambitious young start-ups to established merchants and traders.

Our aim is to make the wine trade more transparent, efficient and safe, for the benefit of our members and the market as a whole.

We are hardworking, committed and action oriented, retaining a valued neutrality in the market.

Founded in 2000, Liv-ex has grown to serve a growing number of members in the B2B sector, with an ever-expanding range of services. We help our members and other stakeholders to better understand the fine wine market and identify profit opportunities.

Summary Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to build the technical foundation for our AI-driven wine exchange platform. While our Data Scientists focus on designing and fine-tuning complex models (NLP, Forecasting, Recommendations), your mission is to productionise, scale, and serve these models with high availability and low latency.

You will own the MLOps infrastructure on Databricks and AWS, building robust pipelines that process millions of records and serve real-time predictions to our global trading platform. You will bridge the gap between experimentation and production software engineering, ensuring our systems are reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Responsibilities:

• Productionize ML Pipelines: Engineer robust, scalable data and ML pipelines using PySpark on Databricks to power our Entity Matching and Recommender systems.
• Implement MLOps Best Practices: Design and maintain CI/CD workflows for machine learning, automating model training, testing, and deployment using MLflow and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Model Serving & Deployment: Deploy models to production using Mosaic AI Model Serving (or similar serverless endpoints), optimising for throughput and low latency.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage our underlying data and ML infrastructure on AWS (S3, Lambda) and Databricks, including Unity Catalog governance and Vector Search indexes.
• Performance Optimisation: Profile and optimize Spark jobs and inference code to reduce cloud costs (DBUs) and improve processing speed.
• Monitoring & Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring for model drift, data quality, and system health to ensure 99.9% availability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Data Scientists to take models from “notebook prototype” to “production service,” and with Software Engineers to integrate API endpoints into the core Liv-ex platform.

What We’re Looking For:

• Expert Python Engineer: Production-grade programming skills (typing, testing, modular design) with experience refactoring research code.
• Databricks & Spark: Deep proficiency with PySpark and the Databricks ecosystem (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows/Jobs).
• Cloud Native (AWS): Strong experience with AWS core services (S3, IAM, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Terraform or similar is a plus).
• MLOps & Tools: Hands-on experience with MLflow (registry, tracking), Docker/Containerization, and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Deployment Patterns: Experience with different serving patterns: Real-time (REST APIs), Batch inference, and Streaming.
• Vector Search: Familiarity with deploying and scaling vector databases (e.g., Databricks Vector Search, Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone) for semantic search applications.
• Model Understanding: Sufficient understanding of NLP and Regressors to debug inference issues, even if you aren’t training the models yourself.
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or aco related field.
• Experience: 5+ years in Data Engineering or Machine Learning Engineering.
• “Builder” Mindset: You care deeply about code quality, testing, and system architecture. You prefer automating tasks over manual execution.
• Production Scars: You have broken things in production and learned how to fix them. You understand why “it runs on my laptop” is not enough.

Why Join Liv-ex

• Own the Stack: You will be the primary engineer defining our MLOps architecture on a modern Databricks/AWS stack.
• High Impact: Your work directly enables our new AI products to function at scale.
• Modern Tooling: Work with the latest features in the Databricks ecosystem (Mosaic AI, Serverless, Unity Catalog).

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected]

Product Manager

Location: Borough, London

Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related bonus, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.

About Liv-ex

We offer a multitude of business services covering trading opportunities, data, logistics and various automation technologies; aimed at a diverse group of wine businesses, from ambitious young start-ups to established merchants and traders.

Our aim is to make the wine trade more transparent, efficient and safe, for the benefit of our members and the market as a whole.

We are hardworking, committed and action oriented, retaining a valued neutrality in the market.

Founded in 2000, Liv-ex has grown to serve a growing number of members in the B2B sector, with an ever-expanding range of services. We help our members and other stakeholders to better understand the fine wine market and identify profit opportunities.

Summary Purpose

We’re seeking an experienced product leader to own and grow our ERP product line, spanning trading tools through to logistics. You’ll lead a cross-functional team and take full accountability for the product lifecycle, from discovery and validation to launch and continuous improvement, with a strong interest in how AI and emerging agentic technologies can enhance both product delivery and customer outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Lead the full product lifecycle, from market research and customer discovery to delivery, launch, and ongoing optimisation.
• Customer Insight: Collaborate with principal product manager, UX and user research teams to drive discovery, using interviews, surveys, and data to ground decisions in real customer needs.
• Agile Delivery: Plan and manage Agile product delivery, maintain a prioritised backlog, and ensure clear user stories and specifications.
• Design & UX: Champion best-in-class product design and user experience, collaborating closely with UI/UX designers.
• Team Leadership: Inspire and coordinate cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison for your product team, communicating vision and progress to senior management and key clients.
• Product Analytics: Define and track success metrics, using data to drive continuous improvement and report on product performance.
• AI‑Augmented Product Development: Actively leverage AI tools to improve product discovery, delivery, analysis, and decision‑making, continuously seeking ways to work faster and smarter.
• Future‑Facing Product Thinking: Stay informed on emerging trends in AI‑native and agentic software and assess where these capabilities could create meaningful value for Liv‑ex customers over time.
• Intelligent Automation Opportunities: Identify opportunities to apply AI‑driven automation, decision support, or workflow orchestration within trading, operations, and logistics products, grounded in real customer problems.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience (3 to 5 years) in product management, owning the full lifecycle in a tech/platform-driven company.
• Strong background in customer-facing applications (B2B or B2C), ideally with experience in SaaS, e-commerce, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to develop product strategy, set and measure KPIs/OKRs, and make data-informed decisions.
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and modern product development practices.
• Solid grasp of product design/UX principles and ability to collaborate with designers.
• Excellent communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in product analytics, A/B testing, and user feedback tools.
• Passion for continuous learning and staying up-to-date with product management best practices.

AI & Modern Product Mindset

• A practical, hands‑on approach to using AI tools in day‑to‑day product work (for example in research synthesis, data analysis, ideation, experimentation, or delivery workflows).
• Strong curiosity about AI‑native and agentic software patterns, including how autonomous or semi‑autonomous systems may reshape enterprise and marketplace products.
• Ability to evaluate when AI adds real customer value versus when traditional solutions are more appropriate.
• Comfort working in evolving problem spaces where requirements, tools, and best practices are still emerging.

Why Join Liv-ex

• High Impact: Own a critical product team with autonomy to shape its direction.
• Innovation: Be at the centre of digital transformation, with support to implement best-in-class practices.
• Culture: Join a collaborative, energetic, and action-oriented team committed to customer focus and continuous improvement.
• Growth: Competitive compensation and opportunities for career advancement.
• Market Opportunity: Help deliver the next generation of digital products for a growing, global user base.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected]

Liv-ex Blog

Liv-ex: Your Trusted Partner for Seamless Wine Logistics 

Liv-ex moves wine from seller to buyer, checks and verifies wine in our high tech, bonded warehouses, and ensures sellers are paid correctly and on…

At Liv-ex we handle every aspect of logistics. This includes moving the wine from seller to buyer, checking and verifying wine in our high tech, bonded warehouses, and ensuring sellers are paid correctly and on time.  

Liv-ex reduces the complexity of buying and selling fine wine as we act as the single point of contact on the other side of every deal, meaning one invoice, one transportation partner, one payment, despite doing businesses with other wine businesses all over the world.

So how does it work? 

• Once a seller accepts a buyers bid on their wine, the trade is matched, and the wine is sold 

• We collect stock from the seller, or the seller delivers directly to one of the Liv-ex warehouses, in either London, Bordeaux or Belgium 

• Our warehouse team validates the wine ensuring that it complies with the Liv-ex contract 

• The seller is paid as soon as we validate the wine 

• The buyer pays and we move the wine to them 

How does Liv-ex reduce risk in the secondary market?   

To keep our exchange safe, each prospective Liv-ex member undergoes a thorough vetting process; two trade references are required, and an Exchange Committee is in place to assess every prospective member.   

Liv-ex trading contracts ensure buyers know the condition of wines, delivery parameters and packaging before they bid on wine, so buyers know what they are getting with no surprises. Our benchmark SIB contract (Standard in Bond) requires the wine to be in good condition, that packaging is original and in good condition, and that the duty status is In Bond, meaning the buyer can receive their wine in 30 days.  

Our wine storage facilities include state-of-the-art security and climate control systems to ensure wines are protected around the clock. Members can store their wines in our warehouses pre and post trade, before deciding whether to trade again or ship onwards.   

When thorough checks are required, we take the bottles out of cases to photograph them. We use ultraviolet torches to check the labels as well as checking them for other producer specific anticounterfeiting measures such as microprint, holograms and QR codes. We inspect capsules, including checking any prooftags. And we also check the cork, sediment and glass embossing or laser etching. 

How does Liv-ex simplify buying and selling internationally? 

Liv-ex arranges and handles the full process of bonded transport and storage, manages customs paperwork, and oversees chain-of-custody checks, cross-border transfers and warehouse reconciliation. We also use a trusted network of Liv-ex-approved storage partners to bolster these capabilities. For businesses managing high volumes of trades, we overcome common bottlenecks in invoicing, logistics, and fulfilment that would otherwise drain profitability. 

We understand that sellers require prompt payment, and buyers expect fast delivery.  We have a standardised payment calendar so that sellers know exactly when they will be paid. And an individual stock management portal so that buyers can access live updates on their purchases and arrange onward movement of their stock as soon as it hits their account.  

If you’d like to reduce the logistic burden of trading wine on the secondary market, speak to us about becoming a Liv-ex member.  

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En Primeur Reflections from Tom Burchfield, Head of Market Intelligence 

Tom talks to us about his experience of attending En Primeur; the Chateau he visited, the wines he tasted, and his expectations of pricing to…

• Market Intelligence

Along with most of the UK trade, we boarded the first Easy Jet flight from Gatwick to Bordeaux on Sunday morning. Bleary-eyed, I travelled with our CEO James Miles, Chief Commercial Officer Anthony Maxwell, and our Broker for Europe, Paolo-Luca Rossi. There was a sense of nervous anticipation. Rumours had it that the wines in Bordeaux had turned out better than expected. Word on the street was that producers were ready to face the current market state. We would see… 

We headed straight to the Ballande & Meneret tasting. A huge warehouse, almost devoid of human life greeted us. Stacks of 2021s lined the tasting space, hoping for another day in the sun. We tasted c.50 wines, organised by appellation, and mostly towards the lower end of the price scale. I tasted quite a lot of green and unripe tannins. There were a few successes (Rauzan-Segla was a team favourite), but we left fearing that this year may not be the turning point we’d hoped for. After a streak of bad vintages, and a tough growing season, we wondered what the rest of En Primeur week would bring? 

Day two began with a trip up the Left Bank to Saint-Estephe, starting with Montrose. After the mixed bag at Ballande, Montrose lifted our spirits – it was a very delicious wine. A quick hop skip and a jump over to Calon where we had a chance to chat with the team around the vintage, the market, and their plans. 

In advance of tasting week, the Liv-ex Market Intelligence team (Market Analyst Sophia Gilmour, Data Analyst Alex Chisholm and I) had published our En Primeur book. We included an opening ‘state of the Bordeaux market’ report and individual analyses on each major wine. I brought a copy of the book along to Bordeaux, with individual printouts of the wine analyses, which I offered to each producer we met. 

When we showed the data, the response was generally consistent insofar as there really did appear to be a willingness to support the campaign (this gave me a boost). There was also talk about reducing the number of negociants they worked with. Among other things, we routinely ask: 

• How many full-time employees do you have? 

• What about producing more grand vin and less of the second and third wines? 

• How much is one critics’ point worth to you? 

• Will you release at a price that will make the 2024 the cheapest in the market? 

In that very charming bordelais manner, our hosts managed to come across as both humble and confident, that the market would come around to their will. 

Day three begins with a drive to Libourne for the Moueix tasting, followed by a mind-altering sequence at Le Pin, Lafleur, Petrus, and lunch at Cheval Blanc. Possibly the most fascinating meeting of the trip, the Cheval team appeared committed to releasing the 2024 at a ‘no-brainer’ price. This left us feeling confident that we’d touch down in the UK with a promising En Primeur campaign ahead…. 

We took the last flight back to London for the Easter break and the anticipation of Pontet-Canet kicking things off next week. 

EP campaign – hard work 

At Liv-ex, we send our members real-time analysis of each major release. As the campaign began, we hopefully asked each other the same question: ‘Do you think Chateau X will do enough’? The further the campaign went on, the more inevitable the answer became: ‘They’ll get close, but probably not do quite enough’.  

En Primeur coverage had been too focused on the percentage increase or decrease from the previous year’s release. While this made for good marketing material and enticing news stories, it is largely insignificant. Moreover, comparing a decade of generally poor release prices to one another makes little sense at all. 

The crux of whether a release represented a good buying opportunity was simple and boiled down to one question: Were there less expensive back vintages, of similar or better quality, available on the market? 

If the answer was no, then it could have been a ‘buy’. You do need to factor in costs of carry, and with storage currently c.£15 per 12×75 a year, this is not insignificant. .  

However, if the answer was yes, then the release could not be considered a no-brainer ‘buy’. If there were multiple better rated and considerably less expensive back vintages available, then it really wasn’t a buy. 

Unfortunately, this year’s campaign had few instances where the price and quality presented a better offer than what was already available on the market from previous years. Lafite and Mouton spring to mind, and Carmes Haut-Brion ascent continued. While release price reductions were commendable, there were better alternatives available. 

It’s was notable that, according to our members, even when a release appeared a no-brainer buying opportunity, it was often been met by disengaged end consumers. Buyer’s apathy had taken hold, or as one more forthright traditional EP buyer told me: ‘We’ve been ****** for too many years, why buy this middling vintage?’ 

It was interesting that the frustration with the system had reached a point where participants from across the supply chain were now daring to put their heads above the parapet. As the first releases came out, UK merchants publicly told their customers that they had hoped for better prices. This was quite remarkable. There couldn’t have been many other industries where sales emails told you that the price wasn’t great. 

Similar stories emerged from La Place, where negociants had not been shy of showing their dismay at prices they knew wouldn’t sell. Reportedly, the courtiers were also shaking their heads in disbelief. 

So what might the future hold? 

Before the campaign kicked off, we had thought that the small crop of 2024s represented an opportunity for producers to reset and price at a level that would invigorate the market. There may not have been any price good enough to reinvigorate the market, but now we’ll never know… So what could 2025 hold? 

We had to hope that 2025 would be a beautiful and bountiful vintage. One that was cheaper for producers to make, and theoretically gave the trade an easier thing to sell. While still 12 months away, we anticipated that the market could not stomach further price rises. It would have to be priced well below other back vintages. In a falling market, this was no easy feat, and one that might be hard to contemplate. But that’s what needed to be done. If the 2024 campaign had felt like last chance saloon, then for some another misstep might well result in closing time. 

Liv-ex Blog

Offer Your Customers Greater Variety Without Investing in New Stock 

Liv-ex members can pull over 23,000 Liv-ex listings onto their ecommerce site to offer their customers increased choice and variety.

• Automation

At Liv-ex we’ve developed a solution that lets you showcase all the wine available on the Liv-ex exchange, without the need to invest in the stock upfront. Liv-ex members that connect their ecommerce site to the exchange can automatically show wine available on Liv-ex, offering more variety to their customers.  

Bulk out your portfolio at no extra cost 

Liv-ex members can pull over 23,000 Liv-ex listings onto their ecommerce site to offer their customers increased choice and variety. Members who choose to integrate with Liv-ex are able to create tailored views for each of their customers, to showcase only the most relevant, and of-interest wines, to create a personalised buying experience for them. 

Liv-ex is very powerful as a way to expand your offering! Starting with 1,000 wines, we now have a ‘virtual cellar’ of 23,000 wines, thanks to Liv-ex. Gianluca Queiroli Wine Empire

Read full case study here. 

Reduce Risk and Streamline Operations  

Before becoming a Liv-ex member, every prospective member undergoes a thorough vetting process; they need to provide two trade references, before an Exchange Committee vets the business, so you know every wine you are listing on your ecommerce site comes from a trusted and reputable wine business. 

Additionally, most wines on the exchange are available under the Standard in Bond (SIB) contract, meaning its condition is verified and the wine is held in bonded storage. Members can connect their ecommerce sites knowing that if the wine is listed, it is available and can be delivered in 30 days. 

Liv-ex moves the wine between seller and buyer, and verifies it in one of our state of the art warehouses. Liv-ex warehouse employees undergo regular authentication training to ensure they feel confident identifying issues with stock. We have developed a bespoke algorithm to quantify the fraud risk surrounding a wine so the appropriate checks can be conducted. As a result, around 28,000 cases of wine were checked by our warehouse teams in 2024. 

When thorough checks are required, we take the bottles out of cases to photograph them. We use ultraviolet torches to check the labels as well as checking them for other producer specific anticounterfeiting measures such as microprint, holograms and QR codes. We inspect capsules, including checking any prooftags. And we also check the cork, sediment and glass embossing or laser etching. 

To further enhance security for our members, Liv-ex engages the services of an independent authentication expert who conducts ad-hoc audits of our warehouses and assists in training our staff to spot potential counterfeit bottles. 

Liv-ex Podcasts

UK Wine Show x Liv-ex: Tom Burchfield: Episode 1 – The Fine Wine Market

Tom Burchfield, Head of Market Intelligence at Liv-ex, joined Chris Scott on the UK Wine Show for the first of a three-part podcast series. In…

• Market Intelligence

Tom Burchfield, Head of Market Intelligence at Liv-ex, joined Chris Scott on the UK Wine Show for the first of a three-part podcast series.

In this opening episode, Tom discusses sophistication of the Fine Wine market, Bordeaux pricing and the use of data and technology for decision making in the wine industry.

Tom kicked things off by outlining the value of Liv-ex for wine businesses, the role of Market Intelligence at Liv-ex, and his plans to bring greater personalisation to the insights his team delivers.

The next episode dives deeper into Bordeaux En Primeur. Listen here.

Liv-ex Blog

How to Sell Wine in Your Sleep with Liv-ex Automation

Through automated selling, wine businesses can achieve greater sales, and with Liv-ex logistics services, increased sales doesn’t mean increased admin. 

• Automation

That’s the power of automation with Liv-ex…  expose your entire stock list to our network of members around the world—each with their own base of private clients—giving you access to hundreds of thousands of potential customers worldwide.

Automation with Liv-ex 

Benefit from automated and frictionless, round-the-clock deal-making. Through automated selling, wine businesses can achieve greater sales, and with Liv-ex logistics services, increased sales doesn’t mean increased admin.  

By connecting your ERP system to the Liv-ex Exchange, you automatically list your available stock, enabling anyone in our member base to buy. But don’t worry, you remain in total control. You set the price and quantity you want to sell, there are no listing fees, no limits on how much you can offer, and no risk of double-selling. 

With members around the world, the Exchange is up and running 24/7, so you can sell while you sleep, or even when you’re on holiday.

Members already benefiting from automated selling 

Goedhuis Waddesdon was one of the earliest adopters of automated selling. Since then, they haven’t looked back—maintaining consistently high trade volumes, with annual sales more than double what they were before automation. 
 

Another leading merchant, Jeroboams, tripled their sales since going live.  

It’s been a gamechanger for us! It allows us—to sell while we’re asleep or away from our desks. Since going live, we’ve trebled our sales on Liv-ex, which is a huge advantage in the current market. Alex Turnbull Head of Private and Online Sales, Jeroboams

Read full case study here. 

Seamless Logistics for Liv-ex Sellers 

At Liv-ex we handle every aspect of logistics. This includes moving the wine from seller to buyer, checking and verifying wine in our high tech, bonded warehouses, and ensuring sellers are paid correctly and on time.  

Liv-ex reduces the complexity of buying and selling fine wine as we act as the single point of contact on the other side of every deal, meaning one invoice, one transportation partner, one payment, despite doing businesses with other wine businesses all over the world.