• City Wine Traders

    Welcome to City Wine Traders!

    We are an experienced wine brokerage who enable investors the opportunity to build a high yielding portfolio in the medium to long term. We select stock using relative pricing, industry supplied information and release strategies.

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  • The Best Kept Secret

    Wine investment has existed for a very long time and has a history of impressive returns. “The best kept secret” is how many canny investors have referred to the fine wine market for decades, but now the secret is out and available for all to see.

    Click here to find out why our brokers recommend investing in Bordeax Wines.

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  • Having The Bottle

    When investing in fine wines the quality, purchase price, quantity produced, Château and vintage are of primary importance, and once bottled the atmospheric pressure, temperature and overall condition of its storage become equally important.

    The aim is to secure high quality vintage wine, with provenance and limited production, which will be increasingly difficult to find in tomorrow’s market.

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  • For Pleasure & Profit

    Wine investment is for pleasure and for profit. It has characteristics which are shared by few other alternative investment vehicles but which are easily understood by even the novice investor. With increasing transparency of global market information, fine wine investment is accessible to all, guided by experienced traders.

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  • Market Performance

    The fine wine market is estimated to be worth £1.8 billion a year ( Jan 2010) and has trebled over the last 5 years.

    Since records began in 1993 prices have risen more than ten fold (974% total return),demonstrating lower volatility than gold which saw a 218% rise.

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How?

Using the services of an experienced wine trader such as City Wine Traders will enable investors to build a high yielding portfolio in the medium to long term. We select stock using relative pricing, industry supplied information and release strategies along with our in-house expertise and knowledge. We handle sourcing, delivery and all paperwork, ensuring provenance, certification of ownership and bonded warehouse storage to protect your investment.

Who?

A fundamental factor in achieving long term growth in an investment is diversification. A balanced collection of wine will have a range of vintages, with diversity in both the Chateaux and years of production. It should include “trophy” wines from the best years plus some excellent second growths alongside En Primeur.
The “Big Eight” include Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Haut Brion, Latour, Margaux, Ausone, Le Pin, Petrus.

What?

Bordeaux remains the most celebrated wine region of the world, capable of producing exquisite wines year after year. Strict regulations introduced since 1855 have ensured quality and the preservation of distinguishable characteristics through generations. The limitation on production of each vintage to 177 cases per acre maintains the diminishing supply/ increasing demand dynamic for investors.

When?

En Primeur or “wine futures” allow speculative investors to buy when a wine is young and still in the barrel, before full bottled grading. A possible advantage of buying wines En Primeur is that it enables investors to typically buy at substantially lower prices than they will be once bottled and released on the market. En Primeur tastings happen at the end of March / beginning of April each year.


 

"The greatest wines represent the ultimate liquid investment" –Robert Parker Jnr

"For the ultimate in liquid investments, try top-quality wine, which has outperformed one benchmark U.S. stock index for 13 years and withstood two recessions." –Bloomberg Business, April 2010

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine" –Sir Robert Scott Caywood

 
 
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