Efficient pricing of Bordeaux en primeur wines

Philippe Masset, Jean-Philippe Weiskopf and Jean-Marie Cardebat

Journal of Wine Economics, 2023, vol. 18, issue 1, 39-65

Abstract: This paper proposes an approach to determine efficient release prices on the Bordeaux en primeur (primary) market. The model exploits information from the secondary market to estimate efficient release prices. We apply the model to a representative sample of wines from the 2021 vintage. The results show that most chateaux released their wines at prices that were too high. The median overpricing is 5.2% but exceeds 30% for some wines. This situation may be partially attributed to excessively uniform pricing caused by the tendency of chateaux with similar status to release their wines at similar price levels.

Date: 2023
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