A written valuation
Inventory, condition, provenance, and value, in a report you can hand your insurer or your estate attorney without editing it first.
Private wine advisory · New York · South Florida · Worldwide by arrangement
The wine isthe easy part.
Knowing what you already own, when to open it, what it is worth, and what to pour for the people at your table — that is the work. I’m Anthony Clemenza, and I do it for private collectors and hosts, and for the firms, brands, and wineries that take wine seriously. I sell no wine: you buy every bottle yourself, so the advice answers to you and nobody else.
Anthony, personally
A published fee, agreed first
You, from the first receipt
What this is
Not a shop. Not a catalogue of experiences. One advisor who takes responsibility for the wine decisions in a life or a company — and is paid by you to get them right.
Wine is rarely only about the wine.
For youCollectors, hosts, and anyone with bottles they have never counted.See what I do For your firm, brand, or wineryFirms, hospitality groups, wine brands, and wineries.See what I do
For you
Private collectorsand hosts.
A cellar nobody has counted, an appraisal an insurer or an executor is waiting on, a first collection, or a dinner in three weeks.
- The Cellar AuditInventory, condition, provenance, drinking windows, and a written valuation.
- Estate & Insurance AppraisalUSPAP-compliant valuation for insurers, executors, donation, or sale.
- Estate TriageFor executors and trustees: inventory, appraisal, and a written disposition memo.
- The First CellarA collection designed from a blank page and sequenced for you to buy.
- Cellar DirectionStanding counsel on acquisitions, releases, drinking windows, records, and gifting.
- Private TastingsIn-home, hotel, destination, and corporate evenings — sourced, sequenced, and served.
- Wine JourneysPrivate appointments, dining, and logistics, arranged with Velluto Travel for one party at a time.
- VIP Concierge sourcingAllocations, back vintages, and auction lots found for you — 10% of purchase price, and nothing else.
- The Prestige CellarYour collection on your phone: inventory, valuations, and what I would open next.
For your firm, brand, or winery
Companies that takewine seriously.
Client dinners, an executive offsite, four hundred gifts due in December, a wine list that is not earning its space, or a brand that needs to reach collectors.
Set the house standard
Every fee is published before the work begins, and every bottle is bought by you. See the fees in full.
Nothing here ends inonly a conversation.
Every engagement leaves you holding something you can act on and hand to somebody else — an insurer, an attorney, a chef, a board.
Read a free sample audit, 8 pages
A drinking-window map
What is ready, what needs three more years, and what you should have opened last winter — by rack, not by theory.
A plan with dates on it
An acquisition plan for a collection, or a firm's whole wine year — dinners, tastings, and gifting — sequenced and costed before you commit.
We talk
I ask about the people, not the bottles. Who is at your table. What is already in the cellar and where. What you keep meaning to deal with.
You get it in writing
An acquisition plan, a drinking-window map, a valuation, or an evening's brief — short enough to read on a plane, exact enough to hand your insurer.
One person owns the detail
You call me, not five vendors. Sourcing, sequencing, the chef, the glassware, the shipping window, the temperature the Barolo goes on the table at.
It stays current
Your record lives in the Prestige Cellar. Inventory, valuations, drinking windows, and what I would open next — still there in three years, when you need it.
You own every bottle
You buy directly from licensed retailers and auction houses, in your name, at your budget. My name is never on the receipt.
I have nothing to sell you
No stock, no shelf margin, no referral fee. There is no bottle I make more money recommending than any other.
You see the fee first
Scope and fee are agreed before I start. No concealed commission, no surprise markup.
| Channel | What it costs | Who the advice serves |
|---|---|---|
| Prestige Vin sourcing fee | 10% → 5%, client-paid, disclosed | None — we sell nothing and hold nothing |
| Marketplace commissions (e.g. Vinfolio) | 15% of sale ($15/bottle min) | Platform is paid by the transaction |
| Auction buyer's premium | 23–25% over hammer | House is paid by volume, both sides |
| Retail markup | 30–50% built into the shelf price | Advice comes from the seller |
Anthony Clemenza · Sommelier, appraiser, and the person who answers
“You shouldn’t have to explainyour cellar twice.”
I take the call, write the report, and stay on the relationship. When an engagement needs an auction specialist, a chef, or a shipping broker, I bring them in and manage them — you never end up holding a list of vendors.
More about how I workI take on a small number of new relationships each quarter
What would you likehandled?
A paragraph is plenty. Tell me the collection, the table, the trip, or the company problem, and roughly when. I answer these myself, usually within a day.