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WineCap is a trusted leader in fine wine investment, combining deep industry knowledge, data-driven analysis, and seasoned expertise. Our team of dedicated professionals helps clients to build and diversify portfolios for maximum returns with exclusive access to prime opportunities.
How we create portfolios
Your wine investment portfolio is designed to fit your budget and specific requirements.
Choosing the right wines
Your choice of wines determines the success of your investment. Here is how we choose the right wines, based on data and experience.
- Producer reputation
- We prioritise wines from renowned producers with a track record of quality and consistent demand in the market.
- Market trends
- We keep a close watch on market trends, including the impact of tariffs, economic changes, and global events that could influence wine prices.
- Brand performance
- We assess a wine brand's historic market performance, looking for steady growth, price stability, and appreciation over time.
- Liquidity
- We focus on wines with an active secondary market, ensuring we have selling opportunities when the time is right.
- Critic scores
- High critic scores are a strong indicator of a wine’s quality and desirability, which can boost its investment appeal and influence its market value.
- Drinking window
- Monitoring drinking windows allows us to understand when demand is expected to increase and supply decrease.
- Vintage quality
- We analyse the quality of each vintage, selecting wines from years that are more likely to see strong demand and long-term appreciation.
- Market demand
- Our data-driven approach tracks market trends, allowing us to select wines with a strong following and anticipated price appreciation.
- Production numbers
- Limited production often translates to scarcity, driving up demand and prices. We carefully evaluate production volumes to ensure scarcity works in your favour.
- Relative value
- We identify undervalued wines that have room to rise within your time horizon, ensuring your portfolio has optimal growth potential.
WineCap fees explained (expert-managed account)
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- Management fee
- Covers storage, insurance for the stored wine against damage, loss, or theft, and selling costs, and active management of your wine portfolio.
- The fees are prorated throughout the year and are only charged on the invested capital, meaning any leftover cash in your account is not subject to these fees.
- Charged monthly, based on the market value of the wine held in storage.
- Calculated and billed at the beginning of each month for the previous month’s storage.
- Exit fee
Is charged when you sell your wine or request to move it from WineCap’s storage facility.
- Vat and duty
Applied to wines delivered within the UK; these taxes typically only become due on dispatch for delivery.
- Delivery
Delivery costs are charged separately and vary based on location and service.
- Payment terms
- Payments for wine purchases are due upon order.
- Credit accounts are due 30 days from the invoice date.
- Non-payment may result in cancellation fees and interest charges on overdue amounts
- Cancellation fee
If an account remains unpaid, WineCap may charge a cancellation fee of 20% of the outstanding amount or the actual losses incurred, whichever is greater.
- Interest on unpaid charges
Interest is charged at 8% above the Bank of England base rate for overdue payments.
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