Buy the right
bottle. For less.
Anywhere.

Investment tools tell collectors what to hold. A buying desk needs a harder answer: where on earth can this bottle be sourced cheapest — with provenance you'd trust — right now.

This is a working prototype of that engine: live market data, arbitrage desk, and AI sourcing analysis — built in one evening to show how procurement thinking closes a gap the market hasn't filled.

What the market already does

"Will this wine go up?"

Liv-ex index tracking, buy/hold scoring for collectors. Mature, crowded, well-served. We don't compete here.

What a buying desk actually needs

"Where do I buy it cleanest — and cheapest — today?"

Match one bottle across hundreds of merchants and auctions globally. Screen provenance. Find the margin. This is the gap.

Market structure · Liv-ex Q1 2026 · Real data

The buying window is open.

Six months of gains after a 3-year correction. Buyers paying up, gap between trade price and quoted price closing fast. For a disciplined buyer — this is the moment.

FW100 trend
6 mo ↑
Last month
+0.5%
vs 2022 peak
−27%
Bid : offer
1.10
Buyer-initiated
62%
Trade vs quote
−2.8%

Source · Liv-ex market reports Q1 2026 · All figures real and verifiable

The arbitrage desk · Where we differ from investment tools

One bottle. Many prices. One best buy.

The same wine trades at very different prices across merchants, auctions and importers worldwide. The engine matches listings, screens provenance, and surfaces the cheapest clean source.

Château Lafite Rothschild 2016
◆ Best buy
Bordeaux
£4,620 / 6×75cl IB
Saving vs field high
£900
−16.3% per case
Listings matched
11
across 6 markets
Provenance screen
8 clean
3 flagged
£4,600price per 6×75cl case — illustrative£5,520
Provenance clean Verify storage Flagged / grey market AI best buy Illustrative · live build connects to Wine-Searcher + auction feeds
AI sourcing analyser · Ask anything about a wine

Type a wine. Get a sourcing call.

Ask the AI to analyse any fine wine from a procurement angle — where to source, what the market is doing, what to watch for. This is what replaces the analyst floor.

Sourcing Intelligence — powered by AI

Enter any fine wine. The engine returns a buy/hold/wait call with sourcing rationale.

Pétrus 2015 Screaming Eagle 2019 Barolo Monfortino Conterno 2016 Opus One 2021 Château d'Yquem 2001
Enter a wine above — the AI will assess sourcing opportunity, market momentum, provenance considerations, and give a clear procurement call.
Buy-signal desk · Pre-screened icons

Six wines. One clear call each.

Composite read across momentum, liquidity, should-cost gap and scarcity. In 2024, 80% of all Liv-ex trade value sat in just 2% of wines — buying is a concentration problem.

Per-wine signals grounded in real Liv-ex Q1 2026 data · Composite scores are engine outputs