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Lafite ’08 Selling at $9,000 Lags Liv-Ex Fine Wine 50 This Year
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Five cases of 2008 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild sold at or below 5,800 pounds ($9,000) on the Liv-ex market in the past month, down from its level at the end of 2012 and lagging the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index’s four percent gain.
Two cases sold for 5,699 pounds each on Aug. 16 and another two for 5,700 pounds apiece on Aug. 20, while a fifth fetched 5,800 pounds on Aug. 23 and a further case sold for fractionally more at 5,830 pounds on Aug. 24, according to data on Liv-ex’s Cellar Watch website. That compared with 6,000 pounds Dec. 28.