The Best Places To Get Started With Fine Wine Investing

Fine wine is an alternative asset class that can provide much-needed diversification. Vinovest, Vint, and StartEngine are worthy of consideration for your first wine investment.

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A brief introduction to fine wine investing

Fine wine is an alternative asset class with a long history of collectors and asset appreciation.

The “Live-ex Fine Wine 100" index is Wine investing’s benchmark in the way the S&P 500 is for stocks. Over 20 years measured from July 2001 to July 2021, it achieved almost identical returns to the S&P 500.

As an investment, fine wine has also shown it can provide valuable diversification from the volatility of the stock market. In what has been a brutal year so far in the stock, bond, and cryptocurrency markets, wine is doing great:

As with many alternative investments, these benefits do come with trade-offs.