I also emailed Universal Assets Investments to find out more. I had read about how wine investors should focus on the top Bordeaux red wines and not ship them out of the country in order to prevent sub-standard handling and storing. When the sales rep called me, he told me that his company focused on new age wine from Australia, since the growth potential was even higher. They would bring in wines from Australia, and then let the customer inspect them before storing in a specialty warehouse in Singapore. The wines would be insured. Three years later, I could sell the wines for a profit.

Out of the many hundreds or thousands of wines they brought in, only a small number depreciated in value. It was thus very important to find out more about rating system by famous wine critics. 

One important aspect to me is the amount of money required for investment. The sales rep told me that small time investors usually invested 20-30k to have a good portfolio of wines. Other investors with deeper pockets started in the range of 100k and more. However, he said he could look into coming up a portfolio for 10k.

One of the investors interviewed in a newspaper was Irene Ang, a local businesswoman and celebrity. She started investing quite some time back and was already reaping the benefits.

The interesting thing about wine investment is if they ever fail to work out, the investor could just open up the wines and drink them up. When I’m free, I will go down to the office to try out some of the wines and seriously consider investing in wine.

Sarah Tan- SingaporeProfit.com

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