Wine certainly is one of the most interesting financial investments, provided you respect some conditions. Vins Grands Crus gives you the golden rules to best invest in wines.
Getting interested in the wine growers' work is essential. The market is continuously moving and more and more wine growers and historically less speculative regions tend to bloom in terms of reputation. Of course the big chateaus from Bordeaux remain sure bets but are much less profitable than before. Indeed the En Primeur prices getting higher and higher and refering to the market prices of mature wines of equal quality, the potential added value will be clearly unprofitable on a medium term. By contrast older vintages offer more interesting return. On a general basis, like in many other sectors, you have to concentrate on rare and well-rated cuvees. Diversifying the regions, the wine growers and the cuvees remains a prime principal to not expose your portfolio to fashion trends.
The royal path is to buy directly at the estates, though the most demanded wineries are naturally less and less approachable. The traditional wine shops proposing exceptional bottles at cohesive prices are getting rarer but still exist. Webmerchants are more numerous and propose compelling offers. But mind to remain cautious before you buy. First find out about the seriousness of the business like the time of existence, solvability and the stocks the company really holds.
Be careful with young companies that may disappear as quickly as they appeared, but also avoid the unknown ones that will not be able to show you the wines before you buy them (risk of non delivery after payment).
Checking the storing conditions also is an important point, should it be to consume the wines or to sell them.
Offer your wines the best preservation conditions. Several options exist. The most important being to keep them at a consistent temperature of 13°C (do not exceed 18°C) and a humidity of 75 to 80%, a key factor for the good ageing of the wine. Controlled ventilation and light will also enable you to take advantage of your investments.
The increase of robberies of grand crus leads you to guarantee a maximum security of your storing area.
Contrary to the common idea, auction sales are not the best way anymore to take advantage of your Grand Crus. Nevertheless certain websites like Idealwine enable you to give you a good idea of the prices on the market. Especially thanks to their important database on the background of the auction sales, you will be able to know about the prices paid by the buyers. But you will have to deduct 21 to 30% of the costs paid by the buyer and 10 to 15% of the fees taken from the seller. i.e. an average 30% in total. For instance a bottle of Romanée Conti 2004 whose official rate on January 30, 2018 is €12,890 enabled the seller to get a netto price of €8,946€.
Moreover the payment will be placed on average 2 months after you provided the wines. And you will have to take back the unsold wines.
Another option, more interesting, will be to address skilled merchants connected to international markets. Especially Vins Grands Crus, thanks to powerful and precise tools, will be able to provide you with an immediate firm buyback proposal in compliance with the market prices. The netto prices will be more interesting and the payment will be immediate. You can make a transaction on the whole stock of your wines.
Wine merchant and cellar since 1978, Vins Grands Crus specialized in the purchase and sales of exceptional wines. Vins Grands Crus, very connected with the Asian, Russian and South-American markets, will buy your bottles at a high price. Among the exceptional wines they purchase, you'll find for example:
• Domaine Romanée Conti : une collection de près de 500 bouteilles
• Domaine Jean-François Coche Dury : a collection of nearly 500 bottles
• Grands Crus from the Domaine d'Auvenay
• Boxes Collection and Carré d’As
• Bottles of Mouton Rothschild 1929, 1945 and other exceptional vintages
• Wines from Domaine Pegau, Rayas, Guigal…
• Exceptional whiskeys (Karuizawa, Maccalan)
• Bottles of Krug, Dom Pérignon, Cristal
And more than 70,000 bottles through 5,000 references.
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