Much touted as a ‘red’ vintage (which it undoubtedly is), the biggest and most pleasant surprise has been the quality of the white Burgundies from 2018.
With Robert Parker officially hanging up his quill last year, Roger Morris asks if predictions about the critical landscape in his absence have come to pass – or if something else has instead.
The talk surrounding the fine wine market in 2019 was one of decline and uncertainty but such things do not last forever and the bottom may already have been reached.
The main Liv-ex index, the Fine Wine 100, finished 2019 down 3% overall with the market trending downwards slightly in December.