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Tuesday 6 March 2012

Global Wine Investments Ltd – First Class Expertise!? Whose wines?


Global Wine Investments Ltd 'fine wine brokers based in the City of London' were set up on 12th April 2011. They claim 'First Class Expertise'. However, this does not appear to extend to their knowledge of the History of Bordeaux. They claim that the 1855 Classification listed all Bordeaux wines and that the appellation contrôlée system was set up at the same time! (see below).  



For a young wine company they have an extensive wine list (11 pages downloadable from the site), although on a brief look the prices look rather high. The 1996 Lafite is priced at £18525 a case, whereas it is listed by a number of merchants on wine-searcher for around £10,000.  Albany Vintners has this for £10300 a case. Latour 1982 will cost £27300 from Global Wine Investments Ltd, whereas several merchants list it on wine-searcher for between £16,000 and £17,000 a case. The company isn't listed on wine-searcher

The Global list also has some rarities such as a single bottle of 1949 Dom Perignon listed for £851.50 a bottle. Albany Vintners also have a single bottle of this but at £655. Staying with 1949 Global list a Rivesaltes at £546 a case, Albany have a Château Saint-Michel, Rivesaltes at £420 a case. 

Global Wine Investment Ltd's list does appears to have more than a passing resemblance to that of Albany Vintners, except that Global's prices are substantially higher. All very curious especially as it came as a complete surprise to Albany Vintners Ltd that Global were using their wine list:


“Nope, never heard of these guys − they’re nothing to do us. Certainly looks like Albany’s list to me, with margin added as you suggest, but to be clear they’re not running the list with permission of Albany Vintners.”  

Clearly if you find something interesting on Global's list buy instead from Albany.... 

and I think I'll definitely pass on Global Wine Investments Ltd for the moment!

9 comments:

  1. Company Register Information
    Company Number: 07601063 Date of Incorporation:12/04/2011
    Company Name: GLOBAL WINE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
    Registered Office: 133 HOUNDSDITCH


    5TH FLOOR

    LONDON

    UNITED KINGDOM

    EC3A 7BX
    Company Type: Private Limited Company

    Country of Origin: United Kingdom

    Status: Active

    Nature Of Business (SIC): None Supplied
    Number of Charges: ( 0 outstanding / 0 part satisfied / 0 satisfied)




    Previous Names


    No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years.




    Key Filing Dates






    Accounting Reference Date: 30/04

    Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)

    Next Accounts Due: 12/01/2013

    Last Return Made Up To:


    Next Return Due: 10/05/2012





    Last Bulk Shareholders List: Not available



    Current Appointments
    Number of current appointments: 1





    DIRECTOR: WILSON, MICHAEL MR

    Appointed: 12/04/2011 Date of Birth: 18/03/1972
    Nationality: BRITISH

    No. of Appointments: 1

    Address: 133 HOUNDSDITCH

    5TH FLOOR

    LONDON

    UNITED KINGDOM

    EC3A 7BX

    Country/State of Residence: UNITED KINGDOM


    This Report excludes resignations


    Recent Filing History
    Documents filed since 12/04/2011

    DATE FORM DESCRIPTION
    12/04/2011 NEWINC CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATIONGENERAL COMPANY DETAILS & STATEMENTS OF;OFFICERS, CAPITAL & SHAREHOLDINGS, GUARANTEE, COMPLIANCEMEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATIONARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
    12/04/2011 LATEST SOC 12/04/11 STATEMENT OF CAPITAL;GBP 100
    12/04/2011 MODEL ARTICLES MODEL ARTICLES ADOPTED: PRIVATE LIMITED BY SHARES (AMENDED PROVISIONS)




    This Report excludes 88(2) Share Allotment documents

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  2. Although their wines are way overpriced a nice website with lots of errors

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  3. Wine Broker


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    Job Description
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  4. Vine Capital
    Park Road,
    BROMLEY,
    BR1 3HP

    View Tel Details
    Tel : 020333973929
    from
    http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile(vine-capital)_399393.htm

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  5. DEAR JIM


    http://www.vine-capital.com/

    WWW.VINE-CAPITAL.COM

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    a LITTLE BIT SUSPICIOUS

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  6. how can they be offering high commissions it means they are ripping the clients,wines do not have that high a commission structure possible without it being a rip off

    in my opinion Vine Capital sound like a boiler room with an ad like that

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  7. I see from the website of GWI that the nameless 'passionate experts' behind it trade in something called 'en primer' (about page), presumably as governed by the 'appelate' rules (homepage). Nice to see someone doing something so novel - the usual lingo was getting so dull after all these centuries.

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  8. Thanks anon. In many ways a classic of its kind!

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