The private brief
Your cellar, palate, travel style, preferred pace, dates, and the reason for going become one written point of view.
Prestige Vin journeys · Arranged through Velluto Travel
The place behindthe bottle.
One party, one itinerary, and the introductions that only happen when someone in the region already knows your name. You come home understanding why the bottle in your cellar tastes the way it does.
Conceived by Prestige Vin
Arranged by Velluto Travel
Private by design
The distinction
The region is not the product. The product is the judgment: whom to meet, what to taste, where to stay, when to leave space, and which details deserve to return home with you.
This is nota wine tour.
The wine leads
The journey begins with the producers, bottles, regions, and questions that genuinely matter to you—not a prebuilt route with tastings inserted afterward.
The day has a point of view
Appointments, meals, hotels, private drivers, and unstructured time are edited into a rhythm. More is not automatically better.
One party at a time
Every journey is designed for one client party. Shared motorcoaches, public tasting circuits, and fixed departures are outside the model.
The relationship continues
Tasting notes, producer contacts, bottles to revisit, and follow-up sourcing remain connected to your advisory relationship and Prestige Cellar.
An introduction,not an itinerary from a shelf.
One journey · Two houses
Wine and travel,properly joined.
Conceives the wine narrative, producer priorities, tasting sequence, dining point of view, and the collection counsel that follows the journey home.
Arranges the itinerary, hotels, preferred benefits, private transportation, air, dining, and travel logistics through its advisory relationships and networks.
The Journey Folio
One point of view,from brief to cellar.
The Folio is the living record of the journey: the decisions before departure, the private composition on the ground, and what remains useful afterward.
The introduction map
Producers, private appointments, comparative tastings, restaurant cellars, and bottles worth placing in context are sequenced deliberately.
The travel composition
Velluto Travel arranges the hotels, private transfers, air, dining, and preferred benefits around the wine narrative conceived by Prestige Vin.
The enduring record
The wines, notes, relationships, and next acquisitions return home with you and remain privately accessible through Prestige Cellar.
The regions
Starting points,never packages.
Every region changes with the season, the access, and the traveler. These are places we return to with new questions—not products held on a shelf.
Burgundy
Climats, private cellars, and introductions that reward context.
Bordeaux
Left Bank architecture, Right Bank intimacy, and the estates between them.
Tuscany
Sangiovese, private villas, and the table as a way of understanding place.
Napa Valley
Mountain producers, valley icons, and a new guard worth knowing personally.
Mendoza
Altitude, landscape, and a wine culture changing faster than the guidebooks.
A day in private
Enough to remember,never too much to feel.
One cellar, before the door opens.
A private appointment with enough time for the family, the place, and the vintages to make sense together.
A table chosen for its cellar.
Lunch where the wine list and the kitchen belong in the same conversation—without rushing toward the next reservation.
Space for the unexpected.
A second introduction, a walk through the vines, or time deliberately left open when the first visit becomes something more.
Back before the day turns into work.
A car at six, a room you do not have to think about, and dinner close enough that nobody has to be brave about it. Three appointments is a good day. Four is a day you will not remember.
Engagement
The brief comesbefore the itinerary.
Two to eight travelers for the most private style of access
Four to six months; longer for harvest and milestone dates
Journey design and wine advisory, quoted in writing after the brief. Most journeys sit in the range of a Cellar Audit or above; the proposal states the number before anything is booked.
Hotels, air, transportation, dining, and logistics arranged through Velluto Travel
Every proposal states the Prestige Vin professional fee, Velluto Travel planning terms, expected deposits, cancellation conditions, and third-party costs before arrangements are confirmed.
Private questions
Before wedepart.
How are Prestige Vin and Velluto Travel related?
Prestige Vin conceives the wine journey and remains responsible for its wine point of view. Velluto Travel is our affiliated private travel advisory and arranges the itinerary, hotels, transportation, air, dining, and travel logistics. You experience one coordinated relationship, with each house accountable for its area of expertise.
How far in advance should we begin?
Four to six months is ideal for most private journeys. Harvest, milestone dates, sought-after estates, and limited suites at small hotels may require more time. Closer-in travel is sometimes possible when the brief is focused.
How many travelers can you accommodate?
Two to eight travelers is the natural range for the most private appointments. Larger family or company groups can be arranged, but the style of access, transportation, dining, and service must be designed differently.
Is producer access guaranteed?
No serious private advisor should guarantee another house's hospitality. We request and coordinate access through relationships and preferred networks, then design the journey around what can be confirmed at the right standard.
How are fees and travel costs handled?
Prestige Vin's journey-design and wine-advisory fee is presented in writing after the brief. Velluto Travel arranges hotels and travel services and discloses its planning terms. Hotels, transportation, dining, wine, experiences, and incidentals are paid separately as specified in the proposal.
Can a journey begin outside the featured regions?
Yes. The regions shown are starting points, not a catalog. Champagne, Piedmont, Rioja, Portugal, the Rhône, South Africa, Australia, and multi-region journeys can be considered when the access, timing, and brief support them.
A limited number of private journeys are designed each season
Where should the winetake you next?
Tell us the region, the dates, the people traveling, and what you hope to understand. We will begin with the private brief.
Begin a private journey