The Private Standard
For cellars and wine programs

Wine & Hospitality

Cellar intelligence, allocation strategy, and program operations for serious wine and hospitality operators.

Three wine glasses set on a stone cellar table, side-lit, the rough limestone wall visible behind.
The thesis

A wine program is a continuous editorial decision. Cellars are inventory. Allocations are relationships. Service is performance. The systems should hold all three so the principal can think about the next pour, not the spreadsheet.

Signals

When the firm
is ready for The Private Standard.

  • 01

    Cellar inventory is reconciled by hand and rarely matches reality.

  • 02

    Allocation outreach is sporadic and reactive.

  • 03

    Tasting events take longer to plan than they take to host.

  • 04

    Buyer history is held in one head and disappears when that person leaves.

What we install

The systems.

  • Cellar intelligence

    Live inventory, drinking-window tracking, valuation, and movement reporting with vintner-grade discipline.

  • Allocation strategy

    Producer relationships, allocation history, request workflows, and outreach cadence handled as a system.

  • Program editorial

    Tasting notes, wine-list copy, pairing memos, and event narratives drafted in the program's voice.

  • Buyer and member memory

    Preferences, prior pours, dietary notes, and event history retained across staff turnover.

Commissions

Two engagements
without a Diagnostic.

Fixed scope, published fee. Here is how each reads for Wine & Hospitality.

A serious program's real asset is the client list and the allocation history behind it. Custody of that list is the business.

  • Allocation and client lists live in a mailbox the program does not administer.
  • Reservation and membership data moves through third-party systems nobody has mapped.
  • Departing staff retain access to the collector relationships they built.

A program judged on discretion and taste is being judged on its public surface first, whether or not it intended one.

  • The program's public presence understates the seriousness of the cellar.
  • Allocation and membership enquiries have no structured path.
  • Bookings run entirely through platforms that own the relationship.
Proof

Anthony Clemenza is a trained sommelier and the founder of Prestige Vin Affaires. Its collector platform and AI sommelier run at prestigevin.com.