Full inventory of your home wine cellar or other wine storage areas, to include:

• Verification and data entry – vintage, producer, vineyard/cru, appellation, bottle size, and additional relevant information.
• Organisation may be based on your personal preferences, your existing organisation and/or your cellar structure in order to optimise buying and consumption habits.
  • Specific bottle position information can be assigned to individual items for ease of location.
• All data to be uploaded to a secure, proprietary cellar management system for you to access at your convenience.
  • A comprehensive demonstration of the software will be provided to allow you to view and manage your collection going forward.
  • Professional scores and reviews from certain sites such as Allen Meadows’ Burghound.com can also be added or linked to your online account (relevant, additional subscriptions required).
• Our cellar management service also turns the art of collecting into a fully interactive experience by providing you an iPad/iPhone compatible App option that details exactly what you have and where you have it. This allows you to make more informed buying, selling and consumption decisions – whenever you want and wherever you are.

Costing and Timing

A number of criteria are involved in calculating how long a project can take to complete and how many wine professionals are needed to complete the inventory process in a timely manner. For example, if the collection consists of a large number of single bottles, as opposed to complete cases, additional time will be required to catalogue and organise the cellar.

We use a daily, per person rate based on the geographic location of the collection(s). Below are the daily rates and approximate costs based on average collection sizes and locations. Please note that the optional items such as printers and scanners would be billed at cost.

Geographic Rates

• Greater London Area
  £300 per day/person
  + Direct travel expenses (for UK projects outside of the Greater London Area)
• Continental Europe
  €375 per day/person
  + Direct travel expenses
• United States
  $475 per day/person
  + Direct travel expenses
• Global East and Southern Hemisphere (Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, China, Australia/NZ)
  $475 per day/person
  + Direct travel expenses

Optional Elements

Barcodes

• Application of individual, removable barcode labels for use in conjunction with a scanner. This will allow you to track consumed bottles to maintain an accurate inventory.
• Set-up of a home barcode printer (DYMO) to allow you to print your own removable labels for new wines that are added to the collection.

Neck Tags

Condition Reports

All of the above, optional elements can be provided at time of service and will be charged at cost, including:

• Barcode Printer and Barcode Labels
• Neck Tags
• Handheld Barcode Scanner
• iPad/iPhone

If a complete and accurate list of your wines is available in an email transferrable file format, we can assist you with the upload and verification of your data for easy, online management. We will work with you to correct any possible data errors and ensure accuracy of your collection.

All data will be uploaded to a secure, proprietary cellar management system for online access at your convenience.

• A comprehensive demonstration of the software will be provided to allow you to view and manage your collection going forward.
• Professional scores and reviews from certain sites such as Allen Meadows’ Burghound.com can also be added or linked to your online account (relevant, additional subscriptions required).

Costing

£30/€30/$30 per hour

Time needed to upload and verify items will be based on the quality of the data provided.

Minimum charge for this service is £250/€250/$250.

Robert Parker / The Wine Advocate Scores and Reviews

• These can be entered manually into your account at the same hourly rate. However, there is a minimum charge for this service of £500/€500/$500.

Once you have an accurate, online list in the proprietary cellar management system, we can then perform a full analysis of your collection.

Consumption/Ageing

For each wine in the collection, we will advise you on which wines you should lay-down for additional years and which you should consume in the near term. We will also make recommendations on what wines to either sell or purchase in order to create a collection that is both balanced and in line with your personal preferences and requirements.

We base our recommendations on industry standards, professional reviews and our own, extensive expertise.

Valuation

For each wine, we will provide a current, average market value using retail, trading and auction data culled from reliable resources such as Liv-Ex, Wine-Searcher and appropriate auctions. Where no current market data is accessible, we will use historical data if available.

If you have your purchase price information, we can also incorporate this data to show you the current gain/loss per bottle.

Costing

£40/€45/$50 per hour

Estimated time to complete is based on the number of unique wines (vintage/wine/size) in the collection, not the total, individual bottle count.

Minimum charge of £500/€500/$500.