Liv-ex Integrates Jancis Robinson Critic Scores via New API
The JancisRobinson.com API enables Liv‑ex members to automatically pull critics’ scores, tasting notes, reviewer names, review dates, and drinking windows for more than 195,000 wines…
Critics’ scores are an essential part of day‑to‑day decision making for fine wine businesses. Whether assessing buying opportunities, valuing inventory, or helping clients understand drinking windows, accurate and up‑to‑date data is crucial.
Yet for many merchants, keeping critic scores and tasting notes current across internal systems and websites remains a manual, time‑consuming task. Copying information from multiple sites creates delays and introduces errors, especially when managing hundreds or thousands of wines.
Liv‑ex’s new JancisRobinson.com API removes that friction entirely.
What the API Does
The JancisRobinson.com API enables Liv‑ex members to automatically pull critics’ scores, tasting notes, reviewer names, review dates, and drinking windows for more than 195,000 wines directly into their internal systems.
This empowers businesses to:
- Display relevant JancisRobinson.com scores alongside wines on their website
- Enhance buying decisions with richer critic and review data
- Analyse drinking windows to support cellar planning and inventory management
- Keep information accurate, consistent, and always up to date — without manual input
The integration is designed to streamline how wine businesses access and manage critic data, reducing workload while improving data quality.
How It Works
The API uses LWIN matching, the universal wine identification number, to seamlessly match each review to the correct wine in your database.
LWIN assigns a unique code to wines, similar to ISBN used in books, to codify wine naming across systems and databases. LWIN eliminates ambiguity in wine naming, ensuring consistent matching even when abbreviations or local naming conventions vary.
With JancisRobinson.com data connected to Liv‑ex’s market data in a single environment, members can assess quality, value, demand, pricing, and drinking potential more confidently, all in one place.
Part of the Liv-ex Automation Suite
This launch expands the set of critic integrations already available to Liv‑ex members, including Vinous, Jane Anson and The Wine Independent.
It also forms part of an increasingly powerful suite of automation tools designed to help wine businesses modernise operations, reduce manual work, and scale more efficiently.
Beyond critic data, members can automate:
- Trading
- Display live Liv‑ex offers on your e‑commerce site without holding stock
- Automatically list your own wines on the Exchange
- Increase visibility, boost sales, and trade around the clock
- Pricing data
- Bring global pricing data directly into your systems
- Access market value, recent trades, and regional price comparisons
- Make faster, more informed pricing and purchasing decisions
- Product data
- Enrich your website and internal records with standardised, accurate product information
- Keep your catalogues consistent and clean, without manual updates
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