Wine without
middlemen.
Wovino connects collectors, private cellars and enthusiasts across Switzerland. We never touch the wine, and we never touch the money. We just make sure the right people find each other.
- The platform
- Why peer-to-peer
- Privacy model
- Swiss roots
The platform
Switzerland is home to one of the most sophisticated wine cultures in the world. Collectors from Geneva to St. Gallen have spent decades building cellars of extraordinary depth. Yet finding the right buyer — someone who truly understands the value of a 1990 Pétrus or a rare Valais Humagne Rouge — meant navigating a fragmented landscape of private groups, auction houses with steep commissions, and word-of-mouth.
Wovino changes that. We built a single, trusted space where private sellers and serious buyers can find each other with transparency and confidence. Every listing is moderated. Every seller is verified. Every transaction happens on the terms that buyer and seller agree.
Why peer-to-peer
Traditional wine auction houses charge 15–25% commissions — split between buyer and seller — and take weeks to move a bottle from cellar to new owner. That model made sense when information was scarce and trust was hard to build. It doesn't anymore.
Our peer-to-peer approach cuts out the middle. Sellers keep 100% of the agreed price. Buyers pay a single 8% service fee on completion, invoiced cleanly. The wine moves directly from cellar to cellar — we never hold inventory, never touch a bottle, never handle a payment. We just provide the trusted meeting place.
Privacy model
Our only fee is a simple 8% service charge to the buyer, issued as a clean invoice when the deal is done. The rest — how payment flows, how bottles travel — is entirely between the parties. We give them the tools to find each other, and the privacy to trust each other.
Contact details stay locked until a seller confirms a transaction. No emails, no phone numbers, no personal information is ever revealed prematurely. Both parties are protected from the moment they join until the moment they shake hands.
Swiss roots
We built Wovino in four languages because Switzerland demands it. And we built it with proper auction mechanics, transparent fees and privacy-first contact handling, because serious collectors require nothing less.
All data is hosted in Switzerland and processed in compliance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG/nLPD). We are registered as a sole proprietorship (Wovino – Kevin Jordan Ryser) in St-Prex, and every part of the platform — from the team to the servers — is Swiss by design.
Our principles
Six commitments we make to every person who uses the platform.
How every deal unfolds
From listing to completed transaction — here's what happens at every stage.
bottle
buys
confirms
directly
the buyer
Total transparency.
- Free to list for everyone
- Free to browse and search for everyone
- 8% service fee invoiced to buyer on completion
- 30-day payment term, bank transfer to Wovino
- No premium placement, no advertising