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Vineyards

Neuchâtel

  • 22 Hectares on the west side of the lake Neuchâtel.
  • Modern Villa with 700 m2 living space and amazing lake view.
  • High growth potential regarding international distribution.

Eastern Switzerland

  • 15 hectares predominantly facing south.
  • Manor house first mentioned in 1492.
  • Frequently visited by hikers.

Los Angeles

  • 90 Acres, located 35 miles from the city.
  • Largest estate in Los Angeles county with 3’500 wineclub members.
  • Virtual Tour: Link.



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Argentina

  • Established in 2002, 65 Hectares and 95 Parker points.
  • The vinery started with Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon and expanded later to Chardonnay.
  • The team includes a General Manager, a Terroir Specialist, an agricultural engineer and an enologist.


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Vineyard Management

DOMUS-WINE Concept

If you have a dream of an own winery with and excellent and famous brand, we can find and develop the right property for you. Through our large network in the wine business worldwide we search, analyse and coordinate the full due diligence and the transaction process of a property.

What are the main factors to acquire a profitable winery?

  • It’s a safe and long-term investment opportunity into property and brand development
  • It offers the owner a growing revenue by accelerating the sales
  • The owner profits by the growing value of the winery and its brand
  • It offers a wonderful and perfect location for private holiday, business events and customer relation activities

The 6 steps to your own winery:

  1. We settle a directory of the search profile of the winery, where location, size, quality level, stylistic, ownership, status quo, valuation is listed.
  2. We contact and settle all sales propositions with the ownership.
  3. We prepare a complete buying offer with a complete and detailed buying documentation.
  4. We execute the due diligence and setup all needed contracts.
  5. We manage the terms and condition negotiations.
  6. Coordination of the entire closing to complete payment processing.

Project planning / Project implementation / Brand concept & design / Winery Management

Following to the successful execution Amphora Wineries offers a full service of the:

  1. Detailed planning of the Winery and Production conception
  2. Implementation of the planed project
  3. Winery Management daily bases: Leadership, administration, production, marketing & sales
  4. MARCOM: Marketing and Distribution Management

Vineyard Development

Business Model

Focus on identification of underdeveloped wineries with a high potential to produce most exclusive award winning wines (Sleeping Beauties) through established network of partners

Focus on improving entire wine making process to achieve premium wine by yield reduction, manual grape selection and focus on “right” terroir; selection of best barrel brands for ripening process

Definition and implementation of market strategy including definition of relevant customer segments, brand development, route-to-market by leveraging deep market knowhow and a powerful world-wide distribution network.

Focus on geographically and product related diversified portfolio to ensure economies of scale and strengthen relationship and increase relevance with channel partners

Success Criteria

Business Model

Focus on undervalued wineries, i.e. great terroir, autochthone grape yards, infrastructure with expansion/improvement potential, succession planning, underdeveloped oenological expertise and deficits in market positioning

Focus on Italy, Spain, Portugal and France; opportunistically Argentina 

Focus on undervalued wineries, i.e. great terroir, autochthone grape yards, infrastructure with expansion/improvement potential, succession planning, underdeveloped oenological expertise and deficits in market positioning

Focus on large and established quality wine importers in Switzerland, Germany, UK, USA, Canada Japan, Korea and Nordics

>20  ha -100 ha

€5M-15M per wine estate

Majority investments only

Execution

Business Model

Definition of themes

Scouting

Due Diligence

Feasibility Studies

Planning & Budgeting

Secure Financing

Process Design

Infrastructure and Organization

Production Consulting

Quality Checks

Coaching

Branding / Labelling

Marketing Planning

Marketing Instruments

Distribution & Sales

Experience

Team

 

Martin Wiederkehr

• Experienced manager of vineyards, wineries and distributors
• Broad and deep experience in procurement, wine production, marketing and distribution.
• Dipl. Ing. FH Oenologe / Getränkeingenieur der ZHAW Wädenswil.
• President of the Swiss-German wine industry association (BDW)

 

DANIEL CARO

• More than 25 years experience in developing wineries and brands.
• Founder, partner and former CEO of Globalwine AG in Switzerland. Founded in 1998, it became one of the best established wine companies in Switzerland.
• Broad experience in developing wineries and brands in several countries around the world.
• Founder and managing director of Amphora Wineries. A brand and winery developing company with projects in Spain, Italy and Argentina.

Hendrik Budliger

• 20 years experience in business consulting, private banking and m&a.
• international network to family offices and private equity funds
• lic.oec.HSG, financial advisor IAF and innovation manager

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