Imagine if your entire wine cellar could be delivered to you anywhere, whether you’re shuttling between homes or heading to an office overseas. Sign up for the new service from New York–based start-up Baxus, and your prized bottles are just a few clicks away. The company will store your favorite vintages in one of its temperature-controlled vaults—and create a metaverse-based counterpart for each.

The newly launched JHOB x BAXUS platform uses non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and blockchain technology to allow owners to track, manage, sell and trade their spirits conveniently and securely. Bottles are authenticated through a machine-learning algorithm and by JHOB’s team of experts, and a high-resolution, 360-degree scan is created. The owner is assigned an NFT, the details of which are recorded and verified through blockchain, and the physical bottle is tagged with an RFID barcode and stored in a secure climate-controlled vault.

For those interested in the alcohol space, BAXUS, based in Woodland Hills, N.J., is one of the latest companies claiming that it is changing the way investors are trading NFTs. BAXUS provides a platform for trading and collecting items like whisky, 24/7/365, with instant payment. But the team also says that the service authenticates and insures assets, so owners can buy and trade without fretting.

Today BAXUS and O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co. announce their strategic partnership to bring the centuries old art of whiskey distilling into the modern technological age utilizing blockchain technology to track the unique progress of whisky casks throughout their entire maturation.