The Wine Saint Barometer
Two instruments, read together: an honest Price Index and a bounded Momentum Score, per region and tier. Classics and emerging regions scored by identical rules.
Forward-only since inception 2026-07-13. No backfilled history, ever. Momentum Scores publish after the calibration gate; signals are logging now.
The composite read
All constituents, equal-weighted percentage moves · price is the line, momentum the annotation
Price Index
-
Momentum
gated
Breadth
-
The composite line begins with the first priced readings; signals are logging weekly since inception. A dash is the instrument being honest.
The movers
Biggest regional price moves, trailing 12 weeks
No region has enough priced readings to move yet. The board fills in as weekly history accrues; a blank row is the instrument being honest.
The incumbent indices select components by liquidity. That is correct for an investment benchmark, and structurally blind to category vitality. The Barometer measures a different variable: the health, breadth, and momentum of wine as a living culture.
Methodology & disclosures →Austria
classic + thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Bordeaux
contrast
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Blue-chip soft/quiet while a tiny natural-Bordeaux fringe shows momentum; no other index would surface that. Satellite/néo-Bordeaux folds into the Emerging tier.
Availability and list-adoption launch null; Momentum runs on search + survey until offer-tracking is automated. Price Index quality unaffected.
Burgundy
classic + thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Prestige-skewed blend, labeled as the editorial choice it is. The value-appellation wave (St-Aubin / Ladoix / Irancy / Mâcon, the Aligoté rise) is tracked as a momentum story within the emerging tier.
Canary Islands
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Momentum-led by design; price lines will be thin outside the top two.
Champagne
classic + thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
The Aube (Côte des Bar) sits under Champagne so the Aube-vs-grande-marque divergence is computable; that contrast is the story.
Greece
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Crete folds into Islands/other at launch (Adjudication Record #3); promotion to its own sub-node later = content.
Quiet-hot anchor: expect modest search, strong survey/list signal. Santorini carries a standing supply-shock flag; availability near-uninterpretable there; lean survey/search.
Jura
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Demand-skewed blend, inverted from Burgundy: Jura's story is its momentum, and the index is allowed to say that.
Emerging tier has no usable price series by design; read on Momentum (search + list adoption + auction-appearance).
Loire (ex-Sancerre)
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Node definition: the Loire minus the Sancerre AOC itself (Adjudication Record #1).
Mosel
classic
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Node story: Prädikat classicism price-stable while the Falkenstein/Haart wave runs hot: a momentum divergence inside one river valley.
Napa
contrast
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Piedmont
classic
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
Alto Piemonte is this region's St-Aubin: the thesis sub-node hiding inside a classic.
Port
contrast
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
PUBLISHED per Adjudication Record #10: Port legitimately has no emerging tier: there is no allocation-driven new wave inside the category itself; that energy moved to Douro table wine (its own Wave-2 node). Rather than force a fake tier, the config allows a 0-weight: an honest structural statement that is itself part of why the node reads cold.
Rhône
classic
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
SLO Coast
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
AVA only est. 2022: young by definition; Alban provides the rare true blue chip inside a new AVA, which makes this node a great test of tier logic.
Sonoma
classic + thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
West Sonoma Coast as a sub-node is a thesis case hiding inside a classic region; same pattern as St-Aubin inside Burgundy.
Willamette Valley
thesis
| Tier | Price Index | Momentum | Breadth | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip | - | - | - | 0 |
| Core | - | - | - | 0 |
| Emerging | - | - | - | 0 |
regional price index not published: only 0 priced tier(s); tier-level 2-D read preferred
The Chardonnay wave is the original Oregon-Chardonnay thesis: it gets its own sub-node and momentum read rather than dissolving into the Pinot story. Relative-apex blue chips; no Liv-ex-grade liquidity here, and the node page says so.
Reading the dashes
A dash is not a bug. It is the instrument being honest. The Price Index is undefined where no price data exists yet (it is never imputed), and Momentum Scores are withheld until the calibration gate freezes the model's parameters. Signals are accruing weekly from inception (2026-07-13); the readings fill in as real history builds, forward only.