Cellar Management
Curating and managing a collection comes with many questions.
“How do I interact with my collection?”
“Are there wine regions I'd like to grow or diminish?"
"Has my collection become overwhelming?”
Tended Cellars brings years of experience to assist with growing a mature and balanced collection based on your unique tastes and goals.
Maintaining the contents of your collection isn’t just about where to find a bottle when you need it. Knowing the exact contents of your cellar means you can determine the precise value.
An organized view of your collection enables us to decide what’s next up to drink, donate, buy, or sell.
Using CellarTracker, a web-based inventory management technology, your collection is thoughtfully cataloged based on your cellar’s needs. Each bottle is entered into your virtual inventory and the cellar location is logged. The system is mobile accessible and boasts the world's largest collection of tasting notes from private collectors as well as the ability to sync your account to internationally recognized professional wine critics.
You have the advantage of accessing your inventory whenever you need it from wherever you are.
Brokerage
Liquidation
If you’re running out of space in your cellar it might be time to liquidate or perhaps over the years you’ve always intended to resell certain collectible wines. Navigating the ever-changing wine market can be difficult. Leveraging a lifetime of relationships with winemakers, wholesalers, retailers, brokers, and auction platforms, Tended Cellars can ensure you achieve maximum return on your collection investment, no matter the size of the sale. Whether you’re looking to sell 1 or 1,000 bottles, Tended Cellars works out all the logistics for you from choosing what’s best to liquidate, where to sell, profit margins, and overall risk assessment.
Many collectors also downsize their collection with charity donations. Ongoing cellar management and tracking provides you a real time picture of your collection valuation. This comes in particularly useful for taxation purposes. With an accurate record of your cellar’s contents, Tended Cellars can assist with charity donations/auction by selecting appropriate wines to donate and accurate valuation for tax deductions purposes.
Acquisition
Rotating items out of a cellar creates room for bottles you’ve always wanted to add to your collection. That’s where Tended Cellars’ years of wine market relationships make it easy for any collector. Doing the research, hunting down the bottles you desire, and negotiating the best prices are all part of acquisition services provided to you. You’ll have the advantage of years of experience working to find you the wines you want without the time-consuming hassle of hunting them down, negotiating sale fees and commissions or payments.
Tended Cellars tends to all these tasks and ensures ongoing organization, tracking, and transport of newly acquired bottles after a sale has ended.
Transport Logistics
Every collector’s needs are unique depending on size and scale. Tended Cellars manages the full lifecycle of logistics for shipments in and out of your cellar. That means, at a minimum, careful inventory and inspection of all incoming deliveries to confirm you’ve received what you paid for and ensure your shipments are stored at optimal temperature conditions.
Here are some of the expanded transportation logistical services
Tended Cellars’ clients have utilized over the years:
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Cellar relocation when a collector is moving.
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Initial setup of an in-home cellar (or a second home cellar).
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Travel to procure sought-after wines, close on high-profile acquisitions, and connect winemakers and collectors alike.
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Secure packaging, shipping, or personal delivery of bottles after a negotiated sale.
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