WineCap: Fine wine performance broadened in Q3

By Hamish Graham

Published: 05 October, 2026

Fine wine investment platform WineCap has detailed that the top performing wines from Q3 of this year have broadened in terms of origin. Only two of the top 10 performers for Q3 hailed from Bordeaux compared to a 90% figure for Q2.

Wines from Burgundy, Champagne, the Rhone and Italy join the likes of Chateau d’Yquem and Chateau Haut-Bailly. Zooming out to the top 25, WineCap detailed that 14 came from the trio of classic French regions (Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne).

WineCap’s analysis of Liv-ex data showed that Burgundy’s share of trade remained around 20% for the 2023 to 2025 period, though is now rising towards 30% in 2026. This interest is focused on the highest profile Burgundian producers.

Back catalogue vintages led the top 10 with nine of the list being from before 2018, with the exception of Clos de Pape of Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2020, which was the second-best performing wine for the quarter. For the entire top 25, 40% were from the 2015 and 2016 vintages.

According to WineCap, Q3’s top performers show “that the market is starting to recognise a broader range of opportunities across the secondary market, and price rises are being felt more widely than in the first half of the year, although this is the early stages of that shift”.

It adds that the “broadest recovery” in terms of prices is still concentrated in Bordeaux, “specifically the late 1990s and early 2000s vintages”, as well as the world’s most famous brands.

Overall WineCap believes fine prices have found a “floor showing a relative stability that had been largely absent in previous years”.

Image credit – Jon / Wine Cellar at Chateau Kirwan / Image source / CC BY 2.0

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