The...Wine Standard?

A bank vault in Geneva, originally intended to house employees in the case of a nuclear attack, was converted to client storage for gold. Now, the same vault is used to store...rare wines.

Open to anyone at a cost of about 0.25 Swiss francs ($0.23) per bottle per month, the cellar has no temperature variations, smells, light or vibrations and keeps its humidity constant.

Confidentiality rules are strictly respected as only one client can enter the safe at a time. There are no names on boxes and only the client's individual code appears on each box.

Not only is there a storage vault, there's also a Wine Stock Exchange for buying and selling the stored wines.


Had it not been Switzerland, I'd be making remarks about tulips...