Sell your First Growth Bordeaux.
Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Haut-Brion and Mouton Rothschild are the five First Growths of Bordeaux, the estates every serious cellar is built around. We buy every vintage of all five.
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How we price First Growths
Vintage leads on Bordeaux. Great years and older bottles kept cool bring the most, and an original wooden case adds to a full dozen.
Fill matters more as the wine ages. Into the neck or base of the neck is what we hope to see on a younger bottle; older bottles can sit a little lower and still be in fine shape.
How selling wine works
Tell us what you have
List each wine with its vintage, size and fill level, and add a photo of the bottle upright at eye level.
Get a firm offer
We price every bottle and send one written offer for the lot, usually within 48 hours.
Ship it, get paid
We send a free shipping kit, insured both ways. We inspect the wine when it arrives and pay you in 5 to 7 days.
Where should the fill be?
Wine slowly drops in the bottle as it ages. A high fill tells us the cork has held and the wine was kept well. Here is how we read it, on the two bottle shapes.
Bordeaux bottle (straight shoulders)
Good fill
- Into the neck
- Base of the neck
- Top of the shoulder
We look closely
- Upper shoulder
- Mid shoulder
- Low shoulder or below
Burgundy or Champagne bottle (sloped)
Good fill
- About 1 cm below the cork
- About 2 cm below the cork
- About 3 cm below the cork
We look closely
- About 4 cm below the cork
- About 5 cm below the cork
- 6 cm or more below the cork
A lower fill is not an automatic no. Older wine sits lower, and we look at every bottle on its own.
Bordeaux we've bought
Real purchases, photographed when they arrive. Never stock images.
We're buying fine wine now, and we only publish purchases we can show.
This space fills with real, photographed wine purchases as they close. Yours could be one of the first.
Bordeaux we buy
- Chateau Lafite Rothschild
- Chateau Latour
- Chateau Margaux
- Chateau Mouton Rothschild
- Chateau Haut-Brion
- Petrus, Cheval Blanc, La Mission Haut-Brion and other top estates
What we pass on
- Second wines in small lots
- Bottles with fills low on the shoulder
- Seeping corks or sticky capsules
Selling Bordeaux: questions
Do you buy the second wines?
In larger lots. Carruades de Lafite, Les Forts de Latour and Pavillon Rouge all have buyers, so list them.
My bottles are from the 1980s. Too old?
No. Older Bordeaux is often what collectors want most. Send the fill photo and we'll take it from there.
Sell your Bordeaux
List each chateau and vintage. A fill photo for each helps.
- Quotes within 48 hours, guaranteed
- Insured shipping both ways, on us
- No fees taken from your payout, ever