Vint is winding down and is no longer taking new investors. The wine and spirits investing platform emailed its investors in June 2026 to say it is shutting down and selling its remaining collections, according to Richmond BizSense, which obtained the email. Vint has not opened a new collection since October 2023.
This page used to explain how to buy into a Vint collection. That door is closed, so it now does two jobs. If you own Vint shares, it walks through what the wind-down means for your money, based on Vint’s own filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). If you were weighing wine as an investment, it shows what Vint’s results looked like and what is still open to new investors, starting with Fundrise.
Vint at a glance
| Detail | What the filings show |
|---|---|
| Status | Winding down. Not accepting new investments |
| Legal setup | Each collection was its own series of VV Markets LLC, offered under SEC Regulation A |
| Who could invest | Accredited and non-accredited investors. Non-accredited investors were capped at 10% of income or net worth |
| Minimum | One share, priced from $10 to $100 depending on the collection |
| Selling your shares | No secondary market. You wait for Vint to sell the bottles |
| Payouts so far | $356,787.83 across 10 collections, as of Vint’s April 2026 annual report |
Source: the annual report and offering circular VV Markets LLC filed with the SEC.
What happened to Vint
The short version: Vint stopped launching collections, kept losing money, and decided to sell what it holds and close. Here is the sequence, taken from Vint’s SEC filings and from local business reporting.
- 2019 to 2021. Nick King and Patrick Sanders start Vint in Richmond, Virginia. Its first offering, a collection of California wines, is cleared for sale under SEC rules in April 2021.
- 2021 to 2023. Vint completes 95 offerings, from Champagne and Burgundy to Macallan and Japanese whisky. Each is sized between roughly $24,000 and $350,000.
- Early 2023. Vint completes a $5 million capital raise for the company itself, Richmond BizSense reports.
- October 2023. The last new collection opens to investors. None has opened since.
- 2025. Vint launches nothing new. It sells bottles out of 59 collections for $1,510,013 in total, and the collections report a combined net loss of $890,901 for the year.
- April 30, 2026. Vint’s annual report warns of “substantial doubt” that it can keep operating for another 12 months. Its outside auditor flags the same doubt.
- June 2026. Vint emails investors that it is winding down. It says it has sold the assets or lined them up for sale, and that it has hired G2 Capital to handle the sale and payouts and SimpleClosure to close the company, according to Richmond BizSense.
- As of this update. The vint.co homepage is a bare page with an investor login. Vint’s retail wine shop, Vint Marketplace, shows a maintenance page.
Sources: Vint’s 2025 annual report on the SEC’s website and Richmond BizSense’s report on the wind-down, linked above. Vint did not answer BizSense’s request for comment, and the vint.co homepage carries no notice about the shutdown.
What happens to your money if you own Vint shares
You cannot sell Vint shares yourself. You are paid when the bottles in your collection are sold, and what comes back depends on the sale price and on the bills that get paid first.
It helps to know what you own. You did not buy bottles, and you did not buy stock in Vint the company. You bought shares in a small legal entity, called a series, that owns one specific collection. Your payout depends on what your collection sells for, not on how the others do.
Vint’s offering documents set the order of payment when a series is closed out. Outside creditors of that series are paid first. Then Vint is repaid anything the series owes it, such as storage and insurance bills it covered. Whatever is left goes to that series’ shareholders, split by the number of shares each one holds.
Nothing guarantees you get back what you paid. Wine and whisky prices can fall, costs come out first, and selling a whole collection during a wind-down is not the same as waiting for the right buyer. A collection that has gained value can still pay out a gain. You will not know which one you hold until the sale is done.
What to do now
- Find the wind-down email. Vint sent it in June 2026. Search your inbox and spam folder for Vint, G2 Capital and SimpleClosure. The email said those two firms would follow up about timing, paperwork and how payouts will work.
- Save your records. Keep every purchase confirmation, statement and tax form you have. You need what you paid for each collection to work out your gain or loss when the final payout arrives.
- Take care with the login page. When we checked for this update, the security certificate on vint.co had expired on September 29, 2026, so browsers showed a warning before the page loaded. Do not type your password into a page your browser flags. Email Vint first. The support address in its SEC filings is support@vint.co.
- Keep your contact details current. Vint has been reaching investors by email, so make sure it has an address you still use.
- Watch for scams. A shutdown is public news, and that attracts fake “recovery” offers. A real payout never requires you to pay a fee up front.
- Check the SEC’s records. Vint’s filings are public under the name VV Markets LLC on the SEC’s EDGAR site. As of this update, the newest one is the annual report filed on April 30, 2026.
One investor told Richmond BizSense in June 2026 that Vint expected to know within a month or two how much cash it could pay out. If you have heard nothing since, write to Vint and keep a copy of what you send.
How Vint worked
Vint’s team bought a collection, such as a set of Champagne or a group of Macallan bottles, and placed it in its own series of VV Markets LLC. It then sold shares of that series to the public under Regulation A, an SEC rule that lets a company raise money from everyday investors without listing on a stock exchange. The SEC reviews those filings. It does not vouch for the investment.
The bottles were insured and kept in climate-controlled storage. Vint planned to hold each collection for one to ten years, sell it when the price looked right, and pay the proceeds to shareholders. There were no dividends along the way. Vint said most of the money, if any, would come at the end.
You did not need to be wealthy to get in. The smallest purchase was a single share, and shares were priced from $10 to $100. If you were not an accredited investor, SEC rules capped you at 10% of your annual income or net worth, whichever was greater.
Fees and minimums
| Cost | Amount | How it worked |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum investment | $10 to $100 | The price of one share, which varied by collection |
| Sourcing fee | Varies | Taken once from the money raised. By our math from the annual report, it ran from about 6% to more than 30% of an offering, with a midpoint near 11% |
| Broker fee | 1% | Of the money raised, paid once to Dalmore Group, the broker of record |
| Annual management fee | None | Vint was paid through the sourcing fee. It also bought 0.5% to 19.99% of the shares in each collection |
| Storage and insurance | At cost | Charged to each series along with audit and tax costs, so it reduces what shareholders receive in the end |
No annual fee sounds cheap, and it was true as far as it went. The cost was loaded up front instead. A sourcing fee near 11% means the bottles have to rise by more than that before you are back to even, and the storage and insurance bills keep running while you wait.
Vint’s track record, in its own numbers
Vint’s April 2026 annual report is the only public scorecard, and it is thin. These figures come straight from it.
- 95 offerings completed between April 2021 and October 2023. Eight more were withdrawn, with any money collected returned to investors.
- 1 collection listed as fully sold. The California Collection raised $46,000 in April 2021 and paid $53,471.50 back to its shareholders.
- 9 collections listed as partly sold, with payouts so far ranging from $6,732 to $120,165.92.
- $356,787.83 paid to investors in total as of April 30, 2026.
- 85 completed offerings with no payout yet, some of them bought in 2021.
- $1,596,549 in cash held across the collections at the end of 2025, alongside wine and spirits carried on the books at $4,910,119.
Put plainly, most of the money people invested with Vint is still tied up in bottles, or in cash waiting to be paid out. That is the nature of this kind of investment. Returns are not guaranteed, you cannot sell when you want to, and you only find out how you did at the end. If that is not what you signed up for, the options in the alternatives section are built differently.
What Vint’s wind-down teaches
Vint was a real business with SEC-filed offerings. It is closing anyway. Four things are worth carrying into any platform that sells small slices of a collectible.
- The platform is part of the risk. Vint’s filings said the collections relied on Vint to cover their bills and that it had no obligation to keep doing so. Now that the company is closing, every remaining collection is being sold, ready or not.
- Fees come out on day one. Your investment starts in a hole the size of the upfront fee.
- You cannot leave early. With no secondary market, shareholders could not sell at any price. The exit was always Vint’s call.
- A small minimum does not make it safe. A $50 share is easy to buy and just as hard to sell as a $50,000 one. Keep this kind of bet to a small slice of your money, and learn how to start investing in plain, low-cost funds first.
It is a familiar arc. We covered the same rise and retreat in what happened to peer-to-peer lending.
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Where to invest instead of Vint
Nothing here is a like-for-like swap for Vint, and none of it is guaranteed. These are the options still open that we would look at first, depending on what drew you to Vint.
Fundrise
Open to new investorsFundrise is the closest thing to Vint’s pitch that is still open: private assets, a small minimum and no accreditation test. The difference is what you own. Instead of one case of Burgundy, you buy into funds that hold real estate, private credit and venture capital, so a single asset does not decide your result. Fundrise says it is trusted by more than 2 million people.
Good to knowThis is still a long-term investment. You can ask to cash out, but requests are subject to limits, and returns are not guaranteed.
Start investing at FundriseWant the full picture before you open an account? Read our Fundrise review.
How the options compare
| Platform | What you own | Minimum | Yearly fees | Getting out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vint | Shares of one wine or spirits collection | One share, $10 to $100 | None. One-time sourcing fee | Closed to new investors. No way to sell |
| Fundrise | Shares of funds holding real estate, private credit and venture capital | $10 | 0.15% advisory fee plus 0.85% on real estate funds | Ask to cash out. Reviewed quarterly on most funds |
| VNVinovest | Bottles and casks you own outright | $2,000 for a managed portfolio | 2.85% on the Starter plan | List on its marketplace or have its team sell |
 Masterworks | Shares of a single painting | Membership is by referral | Set out in each offering | Targets a 3 to 10 year hold |
Fundrise, Vinovest and Masterworks details are from each company’s own site, checked for this update. Every option here can lose money.
Vint vs. Vinovest
The two were compared constantly, and the difference turned out to matter. With Vint you owned a share of an entity that owned the wine. With Vinovest you own the bottles and casks outright, and you can list them on its marketplace or have its team arrange a sale.
You pay for that. A managed Vinovest portfolio starts at $2,000, and the Starter plan charges 2.85% a year, stepping down to 2.25% at $250,000. Vinovest was acquired by StartEngine in March 2026 and says the platform and its team are staying in place. Owning the bottles does not protect you from prices. Vinovest’s own site says a purchase can end in a partial or total loss.
Vint vs. Masterworks
Masterworks is the same idea applied to paintings. It buys one artwork, files the offering with the SEC under Regulation A and sells shares. It shows the same waiting game, too. Masterworks says it has acquired more than 530 works and sold 32 so far, and that it targets a holding period of 3 to 10 years. New membership is by referral. If art interests you more than wine, start with our guide on how to invest in art.
If you qualify as an accredited investor, more doors open, and we keep a list of investments for accredited investors.
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Vint FAQ
No. Vint told investors in June 2026 that it is winding down, and it has not opened a new collection since October 2023. If you want an alternative investment that is open today, Fundrise takes new investors from $10 and does not require you to be accredited. Returns are not guaranteed there either.
Vint is shutting down. Its 2025 annual report, filed with the SEC on April 30, 2026, warned of substantial doubt that it could keep operating. In June 2026 it emailed investors to say it was winding down and selling its remaining wine and spirits, according to Richmond BizSense.
Each collection is owned by its own legal entity. As the bottles are sold, that entity pays its outside creditors first, then repays anything it owes Vint, and the rest is split among shareholders by the number of shares they hold. You may get back more or less than you paid.
No. Vint never opened a secondary market, so there is no way to sell your shares yourself. You are paid only when the bottles in your collection are sold.
Vint was a real company, not a scam. Its offerings were filed with the SEC under Regulation A through VV Markets LLC, and each collection sat in its own legal entity. Legitimate does not mean profitable. The collections reported a combined net loss of $890,901 for 2025, the company is closing, and most investors are still waiting to be paid.
They are separate companies. Vint sold shares in collections it managed, and it is winding down. Vinovest sells bottles and casks that you own outright, with a $2,000 minimum for a managed portfolio and a 2.85% annual fee on its Starter plan. Vinovest was acquired by StartEngine in March 2026 and is still operating.
A few have so far. Vint’s April 2026 annual report lists one collection as fully sold: the California Collection raised $46,000 and paid shareholders $53,471.50. Nine other collections had made partial payouts. The other 85 completed offerings had paid nothing yet.
Vint figures come from the annual report and offering circular VV Markets LLC filed with the SEC and from Richmond BizSense’s reporting on the wind-down. Advertiser disclosure: We may receive compensation from some of the companies listed on this page. This does not influence how we rank them.
