Your wine, held apart from ours

We work with the best specialists we can find, and we listen to what worries our clients. Most collectors tell us the same two things: looking after a cellar is laborious, and leaving it in the hands of a wine merchant raises an uncomfortable question about who actually owns it.

So we separated the two. Our own stock is ours; your stock is yours, held and insured by NEXUS under separate legal title. If anything ever happened to AMPEL, your wine would not be part of the conversation.

Our custody partner

An independent fine wine management company. NEXUS holds the inventory, manages the movement of stock between sites, and insures what it holds.

• Complete separation of merchant stock and client stock
• Your wine held under a separate legal entity
• Full insurance coverage on all holdings
• A clear audit trail of ownership

Flexible locations

• A choice of premium UK bonded warehouses
• Seven European storage locations available
• Market-leading facilities
• Climate-controlled conditions

Wine left in a bonded warehouse stays in bond: no UK duty or VAT falls due for as long as it stays there. Both become payable the day a case is released for delivery, which is why every order asks whether the wine should remain at NEXUS or come to your address, and prices the two differently.

Negotiated rates

AMPEL clients pay the rates we have negotiated with NEXUS for storage, insurance and logistics rather than standard retail pricing. We send the schedule on request instead of publishing it.