By
CultX Team
Prices continued to adjust across much of the fine wine market, but something else quietly improved: participation. More wines changed hands. More labels reappeared on buy lists. And as the year closed out, confidence returned first, not everywhere, but where liquidity was clearest.
That’s why we’re leading this CultX article with the most revealing table in the entire report: the wines that traded most often in 2025. Because in a transitional year, the wines that keep moving tell you where the market’s real “gravity” sits.
These are the 10 most traded wines on CultX in 2025, ranked by number of completed transactions.
The top of the table makes a point quickly: Champagne remained the market’s liquidity engine. These are globally recognised wines with deep supply, broad buyer pools, and repeatable trading behaviour. Exactly the kind of names that tend to stabilise first when sentiment is cautious.
But there’s a second story running through the list too. Alongside prestige cuvées and blue-chip Bordeaux, you see well-priced classics like La Rioja Alta 904 and Seña. That combination reflects something we saw repeatedly in 2025: the market rewarded familiarity and fairness.
In other words, the year wasn’t about a single “winner” region. It was about which wines were easiest to trade, and which names buyers trusted at the right price.
This article is a window into a much bigger piece of work:
The Top Wines of 2025, produced by Cult Wines and built on CultX transaction data.
The aim was simple: strip out noise and answer the question the market actually cares about: What really happened in the secondary market, based on executed trades, not listings or sentiment?
That’s what makes this dataset different. Every number in the report is grounded in completed transactions, allowing us to track how prices moved, how volume changed, where liquidity concentrated, and which wines finished the year stronger than they began.
CultX is the stock market for fine wine, a peer-to-peer marketplace where collectors, investors, trade buyers and merchants buy and sell, with every completed transaction recorded and tracked.
In 2025, that resulted in:
Where relevant, the analysis is supplemented with publicly available exchange and auction transactions. But the foundation stays the same: executed trades first.
That matters, because it means the report reflects how the market traded in 2025, not how it was marketed.
And because rankings are only useful when you can see what sits behind them, the report includes a free downloadable dataset, designed for anyone who wants to validate the results, filter by the metrics they care about, or run their own analysis of what moved.
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To complement the wine-by-wine rankings, we created a monthly traded liquidity index using executed transactions on CultX.
The index tracks a fixed group of 52 wines that traded at least once in every month of 2025. These wines represent the most consistently active segment of the secondary market and provide a clear view of how liquidity evolved through the year.
Calculated using average executed trade prices, not offer-side listings or indicative valuations, the index reflects how prices actually moved for the market’s most liquid wines across Bordeaux, Champagne, Italy, Spain and select New World benchmarks.
What the chart shows is a familiar pattern from 2025. Activity softened through the middle of the year, reaching its low point in late summer, before rebounding sharply in the final quarter as bids returned and confidence improved for globally recognised names.
This shift helps explain why Q4 emerged as an inflexion point across much of the data: liquidity stabilised first, then prices followed.
Data tells you what happened. A good discussion helps explain why.
To bring the report to life, Cult Wines recorded a special Uncorked: Year in Review bonus episode featuring Tom Gearing, Co-Founder & CEO of Cult Wines, in conversation with Joe Alim, Managing Director, Cult Wines Asia.
Their take is consistent with what the trades show: A year that demanded patience early on, found its feet in the middle, and finished with a brighter tone towards the end.
In the episode, they cover:
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This CultX article highlights the most traded wines, but the full report goes deeper: price trends vs participation, momentum, market movers, and the signals that mattered most as 2025 closed.
Source: Data in this article is drawn from executed transactions recorded on CultX during the 2025 calendar year, supplemented where relevant by publicly available exchange and auction data. All analysis is based on completed trades, not offer-side listings or indicative prices. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All prices and performance figures are calculated in GBP and may vary in other currencies. Fine wine prices can fall as well as rise, and capital is at risk.
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