Champagne houses and growers may have seen lower overall orders in 2020, but analysts remain enthusiastic about the performance of prestige cuvées on the investment market.
Liv-ex said Taittinger’s newly released Comtes de Champagne 2008 sparked a ‘flurry of trade’ on its global fine wine marketplace. It is one of the last top names to be released from Champagne’s class of 2008, said by many critics to rival the outstanding 2002 vintage.
Although ‘Comtes’ 2008 was released at a higher price than either the 2007 or 2006 wines, analyst group Wine Lister said the 2008 ‘retains its value proposition against the wider backdrop of the vintage’.
It remains uncertain how a fall in overall Champagne shipments in 2020, due to the impact of Covid-19, might affect top-end prices and the secondary market. However, Liv-ex said that its Champagne 50 index was up by 5% year-to-date, outperforming other regional indices.
This story is from the December 2020 edition of Decanter.
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