A New Standard For Your Finest Wines

To meet the demands of the informed fine wine buyer in an increasingly information-led age, Lay & Wheeler has developed a new Portfolio Service for cellared wines. This enhancement to the existing provision is of direct benefit to everyone interested in wine as a store of value in addition to its intrinsic merits of quality and longevity.

Customers will benefit from the following enhancements to the service previously offered by the Private Reserves department:

• Secure, stable storage at Vinothèque, a Grade II listed building in the heart of England.
• The highest standards of documentation and administration.
• Market valuations for regularly traded wines from a database updated four times a year.
• An annual stock certificate incorporating purchase price, market valuations, maturity advice and lot details.
• Web-based visibility of your wine cellar, and the ability to withdraw wines on-line.
• Access to our expert consultants for advice over cellar-building strategies.
• Quarterly Vintage Reports: ‘what to buy, drink, keep or sell’.

Your best wines deserve a cellarage service that offers much more than simply safe, sound storage. Insurance cover against fire, theft, flood and accidental damage is a basic requirement, based on the cost of replacement at today’s prices, and a fully annotated annual certificate is essential to help keep track of your cellar. You will expect informed guidance on your wines’ state of maturity and you will demand secure records and robust systems.

As a discerning customer, you will also require cost price records, and on-demand updates of the current market value of your wines, as if sold on the market. You will seek full-time access to your stock portfolio wherever you are, via the Internet, and have the ability to issue withdrawal instructions on-line. You will welcome regular assessments of market conditions, reports of significant recent vintages, and re-assessments of fine vintages already in the cellar.

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