About Best Vintage
Welcome to Best Vintage, the online fine wine community for wine buyers, sellers, importers, exporters, distributors, collectors and consumers. Our aim is to unite parties interested in premium vintage wine from all over the world, and to make the exchange of high-end products from owner to buyer as quick and easy as possible. Our extensive portfolio of consumer and business partners tell us that we deliver on this mission consistently.
Wine sellers wishing to promote fine wine stock in a cost-effective and straightforward way can do so simply by posting a listing on our popular website. The audience is extensive but highly targeted, and the return-on-investment high. At the same time, those looking for their favourite vintage wines, which are often hard to source via other channels, can access them without difficulty thanks to Best Vintage’s unparalleled pool of high-quality, international stock coupled with its powerful and user-friendly search engine.
There are two sides to Best Vintage’s business, the consumer-to-consumer side (C2C) and the business-to-consumer side (B2C), both of which offer a unique online marketplace for buyers and sellers of fine wines.
Consumer-to-Consumer side (C2C)
Individual members of Best Vintage buy a listing for a two-month period in order to promote and sell their stock. For only £3 per listing, they gain access to an international, targeted audience of wine collectors. The relevance of the audience, the reach of the listing, and the low-cost of the promotion, cannot be equalled by any other distribution channel.
Consumers open an account with Best Vintage in just a few easy steps and at no cost whatsoever. Please open your account now by clicking here; it will open up a whole world of wine, otherwise inaccessible, to you. To proceed to post an entry, simply enter product information such as name, vintage, grape, format and bottle price, and pay the listing fee via PayPal, the well-known secure online payment system developed by eBay. All personal information and credit card numbers are safe when being transmitted over the internet thanks to PayPal’s proven SSL (secure socket layer) protocol.
A guest finds your listing either by browsing www.bestvintage.co.uk or by entering a search for a particular wine name, type, grape, country or region of origin, or vintage. The guest will then contact you via the website, using his/her own login, after which point you are free to continue your correspondence via any channel that you wish, e.g. telephone, email or fax, to reach an agreement on shipment, delivery and payment.
Please note that transactions are between you and the merchant; Best Vintage does not act as intermediary, nor does it receive any money from sales. It is not responsible for checking the quality of the wine, for breakages during shipment, or for the transaction itself. Best Vintage does, however, demand a standard of service and quality of care, storage and provenance, from consumer and business merchants alike; if a merchant fails to adhere to these high standards, his/her membership to the site will be discontinued. Please help us to ensure that the Best Vintage community remains a satisfied one by emailing us at info@bestvintage.co.uk to report any problems that you might encounter while using the site.
Best Vintage recommends that customers use www.PayPal.com, the well-known secure online payment system developed by eBay, to pay and receive monies.
Should you require premium wine for special occasions, such as a wedding or corporate event, our fine wine experts will be delighted to help you put together a suitable package within budget. Simply email sales@bestvintage.co.uk, and one of the team will be in contact with you within a few days.
Business-to-Consumer side (B2C)
Best Vintage offers wine professionals across the world an invaluable new channel to a truly global yet finely targeted marketplace; the potential reach of a promotion on www.bestvintage.co.uk is unparalleled. Indeed, that reach will continue to grow as more and more consumers hear about the site, and refer to it to source their favourite high-end wines.
The exchange process is straightforward and simple, and it is only at the initial and final stages that input from the supplier is required.
The supplier forwards Best Vintage the price list for his/her stock, to which a commission is added. The merchandise details, as provided by the supplier, are then uploaded on to www.bestvintage.co.uk. A guest finds your listing either by browsing the site, or by entering a search for a particular wine name, type, grape, country or region of origin, or vintage. He/she selects the stock of interest and pays the sum of the delivery and product costs directly to Best Vintage Ltd via PayPal. Best Vintage Ltd then issues the guest with an order number and an auto-receipt for the transaction. Best Vintage arranges shipment with a leading express delivery courier, and forwards the purchase order to the supplier, who ensures that the correct merchandise is ready for collection on a specified date. All monies owed to the supplier for the transaction are paid promptly upon receipt of an invoice.
What could be simpler? The only parts of the exchange in which the business supplier is involved are in agreeing the price list, providing the product details, and readying the stock for courier collection. So, not only does promoting your high-end products on www.bestvintage.co.uk offer an invaluable new channel to market, it also eliminates much of the paperwork, man-hours and costs involved with more traditional distribution channels.
The team at Best Vintage thanks you for your interest in its premium, fine wine marketplace, and trusts that you will be fully satisfied with your experience on www.bestvintage.co.uk.