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Fine Wine Investment Tips

If you’re considering fine wine investment, here are some tips to help you get started.

How to get the right information?

It is important to do your own research and stay up-to-date on fine wine investment trends but where do you get started?

Looking into wine types, growing regions and brands is a useful first step. Researching average prices for the wines you want will help you make sure you are being quoted a reasonable price when you come to buy them. Nowadays there is a wealth of pricing data online for investors to navigate.

Meanwhile, regional fine wine investment reports and vintage overviews can help you understand the fine wine market in more depth. WineCap’s Academy provides a resource on producers and their wines so your knowledge grows, as your portfolio does. News websites like The Drinks Business, Decanter, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times, regularly cover topics related to fine wine investment. Critical coverage can also help you navigate the world of fine wine and inform your investment decisions.

Regularly researching the fine wine market and identifying emerging trends will help you find the best investment opportunities available.

Should I use a wine investment company?

Wine investment companies have years of experience dealing with the fine wine market and its intricacies. Relying on the latest digital innovations, wine investment experts can share their unbiased knowledge with you and advise you on the best wine investments. WineCap’s unique proprietary technology analyses over 400,000 wine prices a day to identify buying and selling opportunities across the global market.

Working with a reputable fine wine investment company helps you get the wines that you want. WineCap has access to the top investible allocations and an extensive portfolio of wines stored in secure government bonds.

While it is possible to conduct your own research, find your own storage and buy your selected wines, investing in fine wine through a trusted specialised company saves you time and money.

Looking for a wine investment guide? 

Our Fine Wine Investment for Beginners guide can help you get started. The guide provides an overview of the fine wine investment market and how it works in practice. It also outlines the wine investment process in four simple steps.

Get started now you’ve discovered these top fine wine investment tips. Speak to one of WineCap’s advisors to find out more about next steps.

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Three reasons why the Brexit deal will prevent customers from paying more for their wine.

Ever since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, trade talks and negotiations between the two sides had been full of uncertainty, posturing and brinkmanship which at times made it feel like a deal was unobtainable. So, the news that a trade deal – now ratified by the UK Parliament - had been struck on Christmas Eve last year was met with welcome relief across all industry sectors on both sides of the Channel and especially by those looking to invest in wine.

1. The costly VI-1 import documentation for UK and EU wines is no longer going to be introduced in July as previously planned. Taking its place will be a straightforward Wine Import Certificate which asks for basic producer and product information. This means far less admin and fees for wine importers, which in turn means no extra costs will be passed on to customers.

2. Crucially, wines will not have to undergo lab assessment for the new Wine Import Certificate. Submitting wines for lab analysis would have caused backlogs of wines which would have created frustrating shipment delays.

3. While UK wine importers are going to have to get to grips with new processes and forms over the coming months, this is just part of the anticipated bedding-in period which will become second nature as time goes on and as new processes are established.

With the previous uncertainty around Brexit having disappeared with the end of the transition period and with 2021 looking to mirror previous years of healthy returns for fine wine, contact us to speak to one of our advisors about creating your portfolio to invest in wine.

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