Two Way Traffic: Buying… And Selling Fine wine

If you have well-cared-for wines to sell, especially if originally purchased from Vinum, we would love to hear from you.

At Vinum we are always thrilled to be offered high-grade wines from our customers’ professional storage accounts. Buying back beautifully-stored older vintages we originally sold on release accounts for a significant proportion of our regular purchasing. It is a pleasure to hear from collectors with excess stock in their storage accounts or bonded reserves.

We take great pride in selling the world’s greatest wines, with exceptional provenance, at Vinum. To keep doing so and to grow our business, we need to be buying great wine at least as fast – if not faster – than we sell it!

This is where the two-way traffic comes in

If we take such pains sourcing the best of the best for our customers, then what could be better than buying the same wines back when clients find they have more than they need? We already have confidence in the provenance and history of the stock and, after all, Vinum is a wine merchant, not a wine shop.

Almost all of us start off with the intention of pulling the cork from each and every bottle we buy, but wine buying is an interest that spawns a hobby, that grows into a passion, that becomes a habit. Almost all of us end up with more bottles than we could ever drink! Next time you’re in the cellar trying to work out where to put the new OWCs that have just arrived, perhaps give Vinum a call…

We are always interested to hear from customers with wines to sell, but our main interests include:

• Older vintages of Bordeaux, especially those that are mature and ready to drink.
• Full cellars and ‘vertical’ collections of the same wine through multiple vintages.
• Dujac, Coche-Dury, Rousseau and the like.
• Vinum ‘agency’ brands that were originally purchased from us, for example:
  • • Dujac
    • De Vogue
    • Petrus
    • Lafleur

Our primary concern when buying from private vendors is the condition in which the wines have been stored. Labels may become stained or bin-soiled over time, and we’re happy to consider bottles that may not win beauty contests, but they must have been kept in optimum conditions to preserve the wine inside. We prefer to deal in full case quantities but also buy certain wines by the bottle.

If you have wines to offer us, please contact your account manager in the first instance, or contact the office by email at [email protected]. We will talk you through the process, provide a free valuation and perhaps arrange an inspection. When wines need to be collected, we can do so in one of our refrigerated vans to ensure ideal conditions are maintained at all times. Payment is made promptly, direct to your bank.

Whether you choose to engage Vinum as a broker or sell us your wine outright, our global sales reach means we are able to achieve the best prices and our low margin model means we maximise your return. At all times we work with complete transparency and integrity, holding to the long-term, relationship-based principles which have always been at the heart of our company.