Buy your wine in Cryptocurrency
VinsGrandsCrus, a French online sales and trading company, allows you to buy your fine wines and Champagne with most of the crypto-currencies on the market via the BitPay transaction platform
What is the BitPay platform?
BitPay is a payment platform based on crypto-currency technology, focused specifically on Bitcoin. Founded in 2011, BitPay allows businesses and merchants to accept payments in Bitcoin and also offers other crypto-currency related services. Here are some of BitPay's features and services:
BitPay has been a pioneer in Bitcoin payment solutions, facilitating the adoption of crypto-currency in the commercial sector.
Which crypto-currencies are accepted on Bitpay?
BitPay currently offers the ability to accept several crypto-currencies in addition to Bitcoin. The main crypto-currencies supported on the BitPay platform are as follows:
The ability to accept these crypto-currencies gives BitPay users more choice and flexibility in their transactions. However, the availability of crypto-currencies may change over time, so it is advisable to check the latest updates on the official BitPay website or directly in the platform's user interface.
Here are some other crypto-currencies you can pay with on VinsGrandsCrus:
How can I pay in cryptocurrency on our site?
The principle is very simple. After entering your delivery details and validating your basket, you will reach the payment stage.
After choosing BitPay, you will be redirected to the payment platform. You will need to open your cryptocurrency application in order to scan the QR code shown on the page. Once you have scanned the code, your wallet will automatically register the correct address to which you should transfer the amount in bitcoin.
Once you have completed all these steps, simply confirm your payment by clicking on "I have made the payment". Our logistics team will then be able to send your parcel.
If you have any problems or questions about paying by cryptocurrency, please contact 01 39 70 60 70
Why invest your cryptocurrency in wine?
The advantage of wine over a crypto-currency is that it is a tangible asset and increases in value over time. So it's a great way to invest your crypto earnings and get more liquidity out of it.
It's also an infinite world in which you can find all sorts of data, including market prices provided by powerful, tried-and-tested tools such as WineDecider. For a given wine, you'll find the market price evolution with great precision on this website for each of the vintages. This will give you a good decision-making tool for making your investment choices in a vintage based on the wine
Finally, wine as a movable asset has advantages in terms of taxation, and this can enable you to optimise your capital gains in the long term. Few movable assets have this advantage. For full details, see our page on wine taxation.
