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Jonathan White
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August 29, 2025

Wine on the Blockchain: How Savea is Bringing Tangible Assets to the Web3 Community

Bringing Real Assets On-Chain

Web3 has already transformed how we think about money, art, and identity. But while most of the innovation has lived in the digital world, the next frontier is bringing tangible assets on-chain. That is where Savea steps in, bridging centuries of tradition in fine wine with the technology of blockchain.

Fine wine has everything crypto investors look for: scarcity, global demand, and prestige. What it has lacked is liquidity and transparency. Savea solves this by turning exposure to the fine wine market into a fully tokenized, index-linked instrument that anyone can hold in their digital wallet.

How Savea Works

Savea connects the physical to the digital. Physical wine reserves are stored by third-party custodians and linked to the NFT via an ERC-20 smart contract. Every token is a verifiable claim on bottles held securely in custody, ensuring provenance and proper storage. The contract creates a legal and transparent link between the reserves and the token, so holders can be confident their digital position represents real-world value.

SAVW tracks the Liv-ex 1000, the broadest, oldest, and most reliable benchmark for fine wine. In operation for more than 20 years, it covers a thousand wines across Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Tuscany, California, and beyond. Prices are updated monthly, and the composition is adjusted annually in line with Liv-ex. The result is a passive strategy that mirrors the fine wine market without requiring holders to study vintage charts or manage individual producers.

Why It Fits Web3

Crypto investors are used to instant transactions, portfolio management through wallets, and assets that can flow between ecosystems. SAVW delivers all of that while being rooted in something tangible. It lives on-chain, can be traded seamlessly, and sits alongside other tokens in your wallet, but its value is tied to one of the world’s oldest and most stable asset classes.

This combination makes it uniquely appealing to Web3 enthusiasts. It brings the familiarity of blockchain mechanics to a market that has traditionally been slow, exclusive, and opaque.

Explore Savea in Action

The best way to understand the potential is to try it yourself. The Savea app makes it simple to hold fine wine exposure directly from your wallet: https://app.savea.com/savw

Curious about how wine could fit into your portfolio? Use our investment calculator on the “Our Product” page to see how allocations might look for you: https://www.savea.com/our-product

The Next Chapter for Tokenization

Wine is just the beginning. Real-world assets are moving on-chain at scale, and Savea is showing how that shift can work in practice. For Web3 investors, it represents the best of both worlds: the efficiency of digital assets with the stability of something tangible.

By turning fine wine into a tokenized instrument, Savea is not only opening the cellar doors to a new generation of investors but also reshaping how global markets think about asset ownership.