Welcome friends, to the Bored Wine Company

We are sourcing some of the world's best wines, bottling them, and wrapping them with the world's most exclusive apes.

Bored Wine Bottles

Our lineage

It was 2041, and some Apes have spent a decade hanging out in their comfortable Yacht Club nestled in the heart of the digital Everglades.

Ape #1839, known to his friends and many admirers as Dionysus, learned about the legend of The Genesis Grape from an obscure message board. He pulled together a rag-tag group company of adventurers who set sail, embarking on an epic quest to find and restore this fabled vine.

Our intrepid simian seafarers braved untold dangers and suffered unimaginable hardships (including patchy wi-fi) before finding themselves washed up on the shores of an undiscovered continent. And this is where our real story begins, for it is was these mythical shores that witnessed the birth of the Bored Wine Company.

Revelations and Returns

As Dionysus and his band explored, the land gradually revealed the crumbling remains of a fallen civilization. Among the ruins, a network of vineyards that had thrived untended, their ample fruit dancing danced invitingly in the light breeze.

Dionysus and his team got to work, knowing that these were the fabled Genesis Grapes, and they will produce sumptuous, investment-grade fine wine.

After months of toil, The Apes returned from the wilderness in a ship laden with cases of exceptional wine. They created the Bored Wine Company to bring the world of fine wine to the NFT Everglades.

Important Information

This project is not affiliated with the Bored Ape Yacht Club, in any way, shape, or form. The Bored Wine Company was created and is operated by WiV Technology.
This NFT is a digital image backed by real physical wines stored in a bonded warehouse in London, UK. This NFT is representative of one case comprised of six bottles of wine.

OPTIONAL EXTRA: You can also receive a physical bottle of wine with your purchase. Global shipping complications mean that this wine is NOT the same make or year as the wines we store on your behalf at our bonded warehouse because it will need to be shipped by a third party. Depending on your global location and local shipping rules it could take up to two months to arrive following the purchase of your NFT.
We will endeavor to ensure that it will be infinitely quaffable though and will strive to get it to you as quickly as possible. See our FAQs for more information.

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REMEMBER: If you don't fill in your postal address, (Section 2), we can't ship your 1 physical bottle to you.

You will be able to acquire your stored wines from the warehouse in the future. We are just working on the logistics and will update you as soon as we are clear on how to achieve this on a global scale.

The NFT also contains a wearable item (Work in Progress) that can be claimed by heading over to our Discord once you have purchased your wine. These wearables will be based on your NFT/wine bottle design so that you can show off to everyone in the metaverse.

The Bored Wine Company has been developed by the team behind WiV, a fast-growing blockchain-based trading platform for unique assets.

Cellar

Fair Rights

  • Each BAYC Ape will be assigned production of 7 bottles of wine, per ape. 6 will be cased and stored for the owner within our vaulted cellars in London, and 1 will be placed in our Bored Wine Community Vault alongside these for future projects to support the growing community.
  • Owners can submit requests to mint/bottle based on how many bottles we can produce per vintage/type (ie: 1 barrel can be split into 42 cases, which would be able to accommodate 42 Apes).
  • There will be a limitation of 5 apes per holder so that others in the community can get in on the project.
  • By completing this form, you are confirming that we have the commercial rights to utilize your Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT/NFTs, for the purpose of creating the wines in this promotion for this company. We will also utilize the created bottle graphic/label in our marketing. We will not use your ape for any other purpose.
Ape at the Bar

Cost

  • The cost to create your unique wines is 0.2 ETH or for a limited time $666, for the Mutant Vintage
  • This cost covers:
    The Design (Concept, design, implementation, rendering)
    The Wine (Acquisition, bottling, labeling, capping, storage)
    The Time (To process all of the above, create, and implement on the blockchain)

How does it work?

  • Complete the form to submit your application.
  • We will jump on creating the artwork for the NFT and bottles of wine (A few hours depending on the number of requests)
  • The NFT will be minted on Opensea and the artwork for the labels will be sent to production alongside the bottling of your vintage of wine.
  • When you have received your NFT we will jump on sending out the physical bottle to your address of choice

Roadmap

May 2021

• Watched as the Bored Ape Yacht Club grew exponentially and realized we needed to find a way to offer these exceptional apes another store of value for their growing assets.

June 2021

• Started plotting our Wine concept, initial designs mulled over a glass or 2 and decided this was a great idea.

July 2021

• Launched the website for the Bored Wine Co. Social media channels activated (Twitter/Discord).

July 2021

• The initial 5 members have given us permission to utilize their amazing Apes.

• Strategic partnerships building and shilling commences.

August 2021

• We hope to have onboarded our first 42 Apes.

• This would be 1 barrel of wine, with its own vintage and provenance.

• When we hit 42 apes, we lock off the 1st Genesis barrel and prepare for barrel 2.

September 2021

• We will hopefully have onboarded an additional weight of Apes who love a good tipple and a great store of value for their investments.

October 2021

• We are releasing a very rare mutant vintage into the world.

• Bottling of the Genesis barrel commences.

November 2021

• We will be dropping a Legendary Sandbox bottle to the holders of the Genesis NFTs.

• Expanded partnership development with key members of the community.

• Work on the 'Special Drop' begins.

December 2021

• Santa’s coming to town with a special festive vintage for all.

• More to be announced when we've finished chatting to the elves.

Q1 2022

• Generation 2 hits the shelves (updated design and a different wine).

• Our Sandbox kingdom will be unveiled to all and a special POAP hunt will begin in the land.

• We will be expanding our partnerships within the Sandbox and will create some very special portal opportunities.

• Generation 3 and 4 will be made available to the ape kingdom.

• Wine partnerships will emerge after Dionysus vets the appropriate parties and allow them access to the cellar keys.

Q2 2022

• Coming soon!

• Dionysus, Tex, and Thompson have been drafting a master plan that is being transcribed from wine-infused monkey scribbles, into legible coherent sentences.

• There is mention of Vinyards, Georgian Special Editions, Yachts, and much more. We just need to decipher these ape hieroglyphs to determine the right path to follow.

Team

Rich
Rich
Tommy
Tommy
Hakon
Hakon
Oriol
Oriol
Hans
Hans
Thomas
Thomas
Philippe
Philippe
Armand
Armand

FAQs

What wine am I getting?

Genesis Barrel (August 2021)

Producer: Château Lafleur-Beauséjour
Appellation: AOC Castillon Côtes De Bordeaux
Type : Red
Region: Bordeaux
Country: France
Vintage: 2020
Grape: 80% Merlot / 20% Cabernet Franc
Optimum storage time: 3-5 years

What does my NFT represent?

This NFT is a digital image backed by real physical wines stored in a bonded warehouse in London, UK. This NFT is representative of one case (six bottles of wine). It is also accompanied by an optional physical bottle of wine with your purchase. This wine will be sent to you within three weeks of your purchase of the NFT (although it could take up to two months to arrive because of local shipping rules).

Why is the wine that is being sent to me different to the wine being stored on my behalf?

The wine that will be held on your behalf will not only be resplendent in the likeness of your Ape, it will also be capped in a specially Bored Wine Co. foil and bottled in 100% recycled glass.

There are a lot of challenges that come with trying to get a bottle of wine from one part of the world to another which basically means it would take a long time to get wine from where it is bottled and labeled to our customers around the world.

To get around this challenge, we have turned to a global third-party wine distribution network and will have them send you a bottle of wine complete with the Ape’s label as quickly as they can. It won’t be the same investment quality wine, but it will be good to drink and cool to hold.

Why is the wine received NOT the same make and year as my stored wines?

This wine will vary varies whether you are in Europe or America depending on where you are in the world, but it will be a wine that is ready for you to drink as soon as it arrives (although if you decide to drink it, it may be worth letting it settle for a couple of days to avoid bottle shock). Examples include Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, etc...

The design of the label on the physical bottle may also differ slightly from the labels on the stored wines. We will make it as close to the original as possible, but we also want to make sure so that you can get your hands on your physical bottle of wine as quickly as possible and it would be impractical and prohibitively expensive to move investment level wine globally without adding considerably to project costs.

How much does it cost?

The cost to submit your ape to the project is 0.2 ETH and for a limited time $666 for the Mutant Vintage.

Where and why is my wine stored?

We will store your wine in independent, centralized, professionally managed, and fully insured storage facilities. This is to giving you confidence that the wine we are offering our clients has been properly looked after and that movement during any trading processes is kept to a minimum. Our platform will soon be able to give you a clear understanding of where your specific cases are, how the market is evolving and where the opportunities could be.

How long until my wine is bottled and stored for me?

It will take approximately 90 days from the minting of your NFT to bottling the actual wine, and sending it to storage.

How do we know this wine is legit?

We have spent our careers sourcing the best wines from some of the smallest and largest wineries from around the world. We give expert wine producers the opportunity to sell their wine at a fair, transparent price. Because the wines listed on our platform have their provenance transparently managed on the tamper-resistant blockchain, they can be sold with assurance and traded with confidence without the high trading fees that are usually associated with wine trades.

Building on our existing relationship with OpenSea we will make it simple to trade the NFT that is associated with your case of wine. OpenSea also hosts auctions for WiV's selection of investment level fine wine and makes it simple to investigate the opportunities in new vintages and grapes.

Why invest in wine?

The market for investment-grade fine wine has been rising over the past twenty years. As an asset class, it compares favorably to prime property and equity markets, while providing a greater degree of price stability.

Current wine trades involve extensive paper trails to prove provenance and ownership. Managing trades via the blockchain means that ownership can be transferred at the touch of a button, reducing administrative time and cost.

By creating a transparent global marketplace for wine, we are making it easier for producers to offer their wine, distributors to know where specific cases are and buyers to understand the provenance of the wine they are buying.

How did the Bored Wine Company come to be?

It was 2041, and some Apes have spent a decade hanging out in their comfortable Yacht Club nestled in the heart of the digital Everglades.

Ape #1839, known to his friends and many admirers as Dionysus, learned about the legend of The Genesis Grape from an obscure message board. He pulled together a rag-tag group company of adventurers who set sail, embarking on an epic quest to find and restore this fabled vine.

Our intrepid simian seafarers braved untold dangers and suffered unimaginable hardships (including patchy wi-fi) before finding themselves washed up on the shores of an undiscovered continent. And this is where our real story begins, for it is was these mythical shores that witnessed the birth of the Bored Wine Company.

As Dionysus and his band explored, the land gradually revealed the crumbling remains of a fallen civilization. Among the ruins, a network of vineyards that had thrived untended, their ample fruit dancing danced invitingly in the light breeze.

Dionysus and his team got to work, knowing that these were the fabled Genesis Grapes, and they will produce sumptuous, investment-grade fine wine.

After months of toil, The Apes returned from the wilderness in a ship laden with cases of exceptional wine. They created the Bored Wine Company to bring the world of fine wine to the NFT Everglades.