Lafite-Rothschild 2008 Falls to $8,800 Five-Month Low on Liv-Ex

A case of 2008 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, the most expensive of the Medoc first-growth wine estates, sold for 5,900 pounds ($8,800) on the Liv-ex market, a five-month low and down 13 percent from its peak for this year.

Today’s price was 59 percent below the record 14,450 pounds at which it traded in February 2011, at the height of the bull market for Bordeaux, and is up 9 percent from the level to which it fell in August 2012 after Chinese demand cooled.