Wine Labs Research

First edition · Burgundy only

The Michelin Grape Selection, Priced

In 2026 the MICHELIN Guide stepped out of the dining room and into the vineyard, unveiling its first-ever Grape Selection. The inaugural edition covers a single region: Burgundy 94 estates from the Côte de Nuits to the Côte Chalonnaise, rated from “Selected” to Three MICHELIN Grapes. More regions are expected to follow; for now, every number below is Burgundian.

Our previous Michelin study looked at wine lists inside starred restaurants. This one leaves the restaurant entirely: we mapped the rated estates to Wine Labs market data — 306,526 live retail listings across 3,371 wines — to answer the retail question: what does each grape actually cost, and where can you find one?

94

Burgundy estates in the guide

93

Estates tracked

3,371

Wines priced

306,526

Live retail listings

Estates by award

Three Grapes (9)
Two Grapes (20)
One Grape (33)
Selected (32)

Tracked wines by award

Three Grapes (337)
Two Grapes (416)
One Grape (1,492)
Selected (1,126)

The Grape Premium

Retail prices climb tier by tier — and the top tier is in a different universe

The median bottle from a Three-Grape estate trades at $722 at retail — 9.3x the median of a Selected estate ($78). The award tiers rank almost perfectly by price, yet a quarter of Three-Grape wines still trade below $213.

Median retail price per bottle (USD)

Price spread by tier (USD)

Award25th pctMedian75th pctAverage
Three Grapes$213$722$2,408$2,103
Two Grapes$70$131$312$328
One Grape$52$98$217$203
Selected$45$78$146$142

Distribution of per-wine WineLabs retail prices (all vintages aggregated), within each award tier.


Where Each Tier Trades

Share of each tier's wines by retail price bracket

Only 39 wines in the entire selection trade above $5,000 — and 37 of them come from Three-Grape estates. At the other end, 61% of Selected-estate wines sit under $100, which makes the Selected tier a genuine shopping list rather than a trophy cabinet.

Price distribution (% of tier's wines)

Three Grapes
Two Grapes
One Grape
Selected

The Same Grapes Cost More Down Under

Median retail price by market, per award tier

Continental Europe is consistently the cheapest place to buy the selection, the UK and Asia sit close behind, and Oceania carries the steepest premium — Three-Grape wines trade at a median of $1,337 there, 69% above Continental Europe. Distance from the Côte d'Or is priced in.

Median price by market (USD)

Three Grapes
Two Grapes
One Grape
Selected

Colour and Availability

What the tiers are made of, and how easy they are to actually find

The Two-Grape tier is 51% white wine — a roll call of Puligny, Chassagne and Meursault (Leflaive, Sauzet, both Entes, Benoît Moreau, Comtes Lafon). It is also the easiest tier to buy: a median of 44 live listings per wine, against 28 for Three-Grape wines and 27 for Selected.

Red vs white (% of tier's wines)

Median live listings per wine


Every Estate, Priced

Median retail price, tracked wines, live listings and the flagship bottle for each rated estate

The most expensive estate in the selection is not Romanée-Conti. Lalou Bize-Leroy's four-hectare Domaine d'Auvenay posts a median of $6,850 across its tracked wines — ahead of DRC at $4,315 — while her Domaine Leroy owns the single most expensive bottle (Musigny Grand Cru at $44,322).

The Most Expensive Bottles

Top wines by retail price within each award tier

Leroy Musigny Grand Cru tops the entire selection at $44,322 a bottle. Romanée-Conti itself trades at $19,717 — remarkably, with 958 live listings, it is one of the most findable trophy wines in the study.
WineEstatePriceListings
Leroy Musigny Grand CruDomaine Leroy$44,32289
Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti Grand CruDomaine de la Romanee-Conti$19,717958
Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Fine de BourgogneDomaine de la Romanee-Conti$19,48139
Domaine d'Auvenay Chevalier-Montrachet Grand CruDomaine d'Auvenay$19,40733
Domaine d'Auvenay Criots-Batard-Montrachet Grand CruDomaine d'Auvenay$18,0669
Domaine d'Auvenay Batard-Montrachet Grand CruDomaine d'Auvenay$15,60452
Domaine Georges & Christophe Roumier Musigny Grand CruDomaine G. Roumier$14,032181
Domaine Georges & Christophe Roumier Echezeaux Grand CruDomaine G. Roumier$10,00028
Leroy Corton-Charlemagne Grand CruDomaine Leroy$9,94232
Leroy Chambertin Grand CruDomaine Leroy$9,415109

Methodology & notes

  • Awards are from the inaugural 2026 MICHELIN Guide Grape Selection for Burgundy (9 Three-Grape, 20 Two-Grape, 33 One-Grape and 32 Selected estates). All 94 estates are matched to Wine Labs producer profiles — 93 profiles in total, as Anne and Pierre Boisson are analysed together under the family's Boisson-Vadot estate. The awards also appear as badges on producer and wine pages across the site.
  • Prices are the WineLabs retail price per wine (USD, all vintages aggregated, worldwide offers), computed from 306,526 live retail listings. The currency selector converts displayed figures at the latest daily exchange rate; the underlying dataset stays in USD. Négociant houses (Jadot, Drouhin, Bichot, Bouchard) carry large ranges that reach far below village Burgundy, which broadens the price range represented in the One-Grape and Selected tiers.
  • Market medians compare the same tier across regional offer pools; bottle-level mixes differ by market, so treat them as directional.
See it live:MICHELIN Grapesbadges link back to this study from every rated producer's pages.