Compare and Contrast: Premier Wine Company/ Mortimer House

Introducing The Premier Wine Company

Formed by a group of experienced and successful businessmen and traders, The Premier Wine Co are providing an opportunity for our clients to gain a foothold in the thriving and prosperous fine wine market.

We specialise in rare, prestigious Bordeaux fine wines such as Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour and Chateau Haut Brion, which have all proven to make safe and significant gains as an alternative investment in a changing global economy.

Our ability to secure tangible, solid returns in a relatively short period of time is second to none.

We are committed to ensuring our clients receive the best market knowledge and access to opportunities that have previously only been available to a select clique. It is our fundamental objective to ensure complete customer satisfaction with our range of services and products.

Our entire team are well educated and have an exemplary depth of knowledge and performance within the fine wine market - many forming long term relationships with our clients.

Once purchased our fine wines are either shipped or stored in a renowned bonded warehouse/cellar in perfect homeostatic conditions and insured to the current market value.

Rest assured, The Premier Wine Co will deliver an unequivocal personal service and will provide the conditions for the client to build up a credible portfolio of fine wines.

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Introducing Mortimer House

Mortimer House is part of a group of extremely successful companies that specialise in property construction and development, commodity broking, finance (ForEx) and trading in precious metals. Formed by a group of experienced and successful businessmen and traders, Mortimer House is now providing our clients with an opportunity to gain a foothold in the thriving and prosperous fine wine market.

Mortimer House specialise in rare and prestigious First Growth Bordeaux fine wines such as Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux, Latour and Haut Brion as well as wines from the Pomerol Appellation including Chateau Petrus, Le Pin and Chateau Ausone. All of these wines have proven to make safe and significant gains as an alternative investment in a changing global economy.

Our ability to secure tangible, solid returns in a relatively short period of time is second to none.

We are committed to ensuring our clients receive the best market knowledge and access to opportunities that have previously only been available to a select clique. It is our fundamental objective to ensure complete customer satisfaction with our range of services and products.

Our entire team is extremely experienced and has an exemplary depth of knowledge and performance within the fine wine market - many having formed relationships with clients going back many years.

Once purchased our fine wines are either shipped or stored in the clients named account at a renowned bonded warehouse/cellar in perfect homeostatic conditions and insured to the current market value.

Rest assured, Mortimer House will deliver an unequivocal personal service and will provide the conditions for the client to build up a credible portfolio of fine wines.

See also Beaumont Vintners Ltd/ Castlegate Wines.

1855.com: possible class action

Château Cos d'Estournel (Saint Estèphe)

Michael Haynes, a UK lawyer but based in France near Bergerac, is planning to put together a class action against 1855 (1855.com). Like so many other 'customers' of 1855  he is owed a considerable quantity of en primeurs from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 vintages.  

Michael would like anyone owed wine by 1855 (1855.com) to contact him supplying details – the ideal would be for each claimant to supply me with a print out of their order from their a/c page from 1855.com, plus an edited version showing just the wines outstanding (as the a/c page shows both outstanding and already delivered orders) with an estimate of their current value.

The best way of finding current value I find (Jim) is to check on www.wine-searcher.com. I find it easiest to restrict the search to UK merchants using euro as the currency and to search for full cases rather than a bottle price.

Contact details: 

Michael Haynes
'Paute'
24500 Eymet
France

Tel: (+33) 05 53 74 23 11
Mob/portable: 06 72 34 99 83

email: michael@rosbifs.com

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Current tally of wines not delivered by 1855 (1855.com):

2122 bottles (176+ cases) for an estimated value of over 137,000€. With details of a further 150 bottles awaited.

Beaumont Vintners Ltd/Castlegate Wines Ltd: compare and contrast

Beaumont Vintners:

Thank you for visiting Beaumont Vintners.
Formed by a group of experienced and successful businessmen and traders, Beaumont Vintners are providing an opportunity for our clients to gain a foothold in the thriving and prosperous fine wine market. 

We specialise in rare, prestigious Bordeaux fine wines such as Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour and Chateau Haut Brion, which have all proven to make safe and significant gains as an alternative investment in a changing global economy.

We are committed to ensuring our clients receive the best market knowledge and access to opportunities that have previously only been available to a select clique. It is our fundamental objective to ensure complete customer satisfaction with our range of services and products.

Our entire team are extremely experienced and have an exemplary depth of knowledge and performance within the fine wine market - many forming long term relationships with our clients.

Once purchased our fine wines are either shipped or stored in The London City Bond in perfect homeostatic conditions and insured to the current market value.

Rest assured, Beaumont Vintners will deliver an unequivocal personal service and provide the conditions for the client to build up a credible portfolio of fine wines.'



Company founded: 18.6.10 probably started trading autumn 2010.

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'Introducing Castlegate Wines 

Castlegate Wines Limited was formed by a group of experienced and successful businessmen, traders and wine collectors. The directors have built up a large private portfolio of fine wines over the years and decided that a ‘special purpose vehicle’ (SPV) was required to trade their assets in a fashion they could control and expand the opportunity for new clients to gain a foothold in the thriving and prosperous fine wine market.

We specialise in rare and prestigious Bordeaux fine wines such as Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Latour and Château Haut Brion, which have all proven to make safe and significant gains as an alternative investment in a changing global economy.

Our ability to secure tangible, solid returns in a relatively short period of time is second to none.

We are committed to ensuring our clients receive the best market knowledge and access to opportunities that have previously only been available to a select clique. It is our fundamental objective to ensure complete customer satisfaction with our range of services and products.

Our entire team are extremely experienced and have an exemplary depth of knowledge and performance within the fine wine market - many forming long term relationships with our clients.

Shortly after purchase our fine wines are either shipped, stored or title is transferred to the purchaser to a renowned bonded warehouse/cellar in perfect homeostatic conditions and insured to the current market value. In the event that ‘En Primeur’ is purchased, the wine is stored in barrel at the Château and then transferred to the bonded warehouse shortly after it is bottled.
 
Rest assured, Castlegate Wines will deliver an unequivocal bespoke service and will provide the conditions for the client to build up a credible portfolio of fine wines as well as a realistic trading platform to liquidate your assets for the best possible return.'

Company founded: 21.10.2010 – Castlegate Ventures Ltd

'Our ability to secure tangible, solid returns in a relatively short period of time is second to none.' As the company was founded less than three months ago 'relatively' is a nice touch!

Benedict Moruthoane sentenced to 7.5 years for fraud

On 5th January 2011 Benedict Moruthoane was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for fraud in respect to two wine investment companies: International Wine Commodities Ltd and Templar Vintners Ltd. Neither company bought any wine – IWC took some £800,000 from investors and Templar Vintners £100,000. Hertfordshire police raided and closed the offices of IWC in October 2008. They closed Templar Vintners down in January 2010 soon after it started operation.  

Just before Christmas, following a trial at Saint Albans Crown Court lasting two months, the jury found Moruthoane guilty just before Christmas. The case followed an investigation by the Economic Unit of the Hertfordshire Police.

 

In January 2010 Guernsey Financial Services Commission issued a public warning against Templar Vintners Ltd for falsely claiming on its website that it was authorised by the Commission. 

James Allie, a Brent councillor and the Liberal Democrat's parliamentary candidate for North Brent at the last General Election, was company secretary for Templar Vintners Ltd. Allie's name was used to give a patina of respectability to the fledgling company 

A concerned client of Templar Vintners, who had paid for two cases – 2008 Ausone  and 2008 Lafite – received an email purporting to come from Allie but it is likley that it was sent by Moruthoane. It is thought that Allie had no active involvement in Templar Vintners and no charges were brought.

Clearly it was, at the least, careless and foolish of Allie to have  unwittingly allowed his good standing and reputation to help persuade potential customers to invest in a fraudulent scheme.    

2011 suggested resolutions

a) Don't accept cold calls

b) Don't buy from companies you have never heard of, especially if they phone you up out of the blue.

c) Do your research before you buy.