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We flag the bargains. You decide.

We put 11 years of sold prices, back to 2015, beside the latest recorded merchant prices, then flag the bottles that sit below their own market.

  • Auction and retail evidence kept distinct
  • Bargains flagged, so you know when to buy

Catch the right lot before it closes.

Save a producer, wine, vintage, format and landed budget. We watch supported auction houses and tell you when an exact match appears.

  • One watchlist across supported auction houses
  • Match by producer, vintage and format
  • Compare landed auction cost with retail

Auctions

A real lot from our data, sold 15 May 2026.

Château Mouton Rothschild 2019

Hart Davis Hart · lot 2347

Château Mouton Rothschild 2019

6 × 750 ml
Hammer, lot of 6$2,400
Hammer / bottle$400
Retail / bottle, 25 Sept 2026€642

Sold, buyer's premium excluded 15 May 2026

Drink from2027Drink through2069
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Get the best out of every bottle you own.

Every wine has its moment. We tell you when to store it, when to open it, and when it is past its prime.

  • Know when to open and when to wait
  • Clear advice when a wine needs more years
  • Monitor when a bottle you own is ready to drink

Drinking windows

Pétrus 2020

Château Pétrus 2020

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Pétrus 2016

Château Pétrus 2016

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Pétrus 2009

Château Pétrus 2009

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Learn everything about your wine.

Search any wine and see it all. The score at the top. Prices across the market. Critic reviews next to real drinker reviews. Dated merchant listings, with sources to check availability.

  • Scores, prices, reviews and notes together
  • Every vintage with its own reviews and window
  • Where to buy, store by store

Wines & vintages

La Tâche 2019

Domaine de La Romanée-Conti 2019

La Tâche Grand Cru

1 × 750 ml

Price / bottle£4,587
Score97.5 / 100
Pétrus 2020

Château Pétrus 2020

3 × 750 ml

Price / bottle£2,949
Score96.7 / 100
Pétrus 2016

Château Pétrus 2016

1 × 750 ml

Price / bottle£4,119
Score96.8 / 100

Find out what your cellar is really worth.

Paste one wine or import the whole cellar. We price it from real sales, not wishful listings, and show what you would pocket after fees.

  • Value any wine in seconds
  • Your whole cellar tracked like a portfolio
  • What you would actually keep after selling, stated plainly

Cellar

Bottles120
What you paid£139,141
Market value£146,638
Drinking now59
WineVintageBottlesMarket / bottleWhere
Pétrus 2020Château Pétrus
20206£2,949Octavian, Corsham
Pétrus 2016Château Pétrus
20161£4,119LCB Vinothèque
Pétrus 2009Château Pétrus
20091£2,641Home cellar
Château Mouton Rothschild 2016Château Mouton Rothschild
201624£466Vinovault, Purfleet

One buying mistake costs more than a year of this.

Collector is £39 a month on the annual plan. Overpay on a single case and you have already spent more than that.

Annual saves 20%

Every plan includes

  • Know the fair price before you pay it, against 11 years of sales since 2015
  • Get told when a wine you want appears in an auction catalogue
  • See every bottle you own, and what it is worth today
  • One score you can trust, from critics and the drinkers who bought it
  • Open it at its peak, not a vintage too early or too late
  • Value the whole cellar for insurance, probate or sale
  • Keep a note on every bottle you drink, so you know what to buy again
  • Compare every vintage of a wine side by side
Concierge and trade enquiries

What nobody else puts in one place

  • Shows every merchant, not just the ones who paid

    Wine-Searcher’s free tier shows sponsored stores only. Their own help pages say so.

  • Auction results next to retail prices

    Neither Wine-Searcher nor Vivino puts realised auction prices beside retail.

  • The full cost of a lot, duty and VAT included

    Nobody in the consumer market computes duty, VAT and fees into one number.

  • Open to private collectors, not trade only

    Liv-ex is trade only. It states it will never allow private collectors to trade.

  • One of the largest wine databases in the world

    The whole directory is public and searchable without an account, so the size is something you can check rather than take from us.

9,440,000 wines. 11 years of prices. One place.

Read the methodology →

Built for decisions that deserve a clear record.

Evidence before confidence

A price without its source, date and evidence type is not decision-ready. We keep retail asks, auction hammers and invoices visibly distinct.

Costs before headlines

The winning bid is only the beginning. Premium, duty, VAT, shipping and storage belong beside the number that first caught your eye.

Timing before ceremony

A famous label cannot rescue the wrong moment. Vintage context and drinking windows help decide whether to open, hold or walk away.

Common questions

What happens after the 7-day trial?

Billing is connected, so this is the real thing. The 7 days free come with the annual plans only. A monthly plan starts straight away and has no trial. At the end of the 7 days your card is charged for the year at the price on the plan you chose. Cancel before it ends and you are not charged.

Can I cancel?

Yes, at any time. Settings → Plan & billing has a Cancel membership button that opens the Stripe customer portal, where you can also change your card or download past invoices. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for rather than the moment you press it, so you keep what you are paying for until then.

Can I move to a different plan?

Yes, in either direction. Settings → Plan & billing lists every plan beside what you have used against each ceiling, so you can see where you actually stand before you choose. Changing plan goes through the same Stripe customer portal as cancelling. If you move down and end up over a ceiling, nothing you saved is deleted: watches above the new limit go quiet and start working again the moment you move back up.

What does “billed annually” mean?

The price on the card is what the plan works out at per month, and it is the cheaper of the two ways to pay. The charge itself is one payment covering twelve months, taken when the 7 free days end. If you would rather pay each month, the monthly toggle shows that price instead; it costs more over a year and it carries no free days.

Where does the data come from?

Auction houses, merchants and public records. Every price is stored with its source and its date. We publish the method behind every number.

What is a watch?

A standing instruction to tell you when a wine you want turns up. You save the producer, the wine, the vintages and formats you would accept and the most you are willing to pay landed, and we tell you when something matches. Your plan sets how many you can have running at once. A saved watch cannot be rewritten in place, so adjusting one leaves the original alone and saves a second rule beside it.

Can I bring my cellar in from a spreadsheet?

Yes. Upload the spreadsheet and you approve the column mapping yourself, then confirm every uncertain match one by one. Nothing is written to your cellar until you have said yes to it, so an ambiguous producer name cannot quietly become the wrong wine.

Is this investment advice?

No. We show you what wines sold for and when they drink well. What you do next is your call.

What is free?

The wine directory and identity previews are public and need no account. Your cellar, its valuation, price history, alerts and the sommelier are part of a paid membership. There is no free tier; the 7 days free on an annual plan is the way to try it.

Start with the wine you were about to buy.

Search it. See what it really sells for. Then decide.