Strategic Wine Consulting for Hospitality & Retail
At Vino al Vino, our consulting services are designed to help restaurants, bars, hotels, and retailers build distinctive wine programs that drive revenue, optimize margins, enhance guest experiences and express your brand identity.
Whether you’re launching a new concept, refreshing a menu, or training your team, we bring deep expertise in exclusive sourcing, menu engineering, and market-savvy wine strategy.
Who do we work with?
Restaurants
Award-winning restaurants and chef-driven concepts
Hotels
Boutique hotels and wine-forward hospitality groups
Retailers
Retailers seeking curated selections & growth support
Entrepreneurs
Food and beverage entrepreneurs launching new ventures
Our core consulting services?
Wine Program Design
Curate a dynamic, profitable, and thoughtful list—whether you need a natural wine spotlight, regional depth, or a full-spectrum global selection.
Menu Engineering & Pricing Strategy
Balance quality, margin, and storytelling. We help optimize wine list structure, pricing tiers, and by-the-glass selections to increase sales and guest satisfaction.
Exclusive Sourcing & Private Labels
Gain access to hard-to-find, sustainably made wines and build unique offerings your competitors can’t replicate. We also help develop custom private-label wines tailored to your brand.
Team Training & Staff Enablement
From onboarding new staff to enhancing service culture, we provide tailored training to improve confidence, storytelling, and upselling skills across your front-of-house team.
Performance Monitoring & Iteration
Once the program is live, we can help you track results and continue to refine your offering—ensuring your wine list evolves with your business and customer preferences.
What is our approach?
All of our services are bespoke and focused on you. We start with you and your North Star. What are you trying to achieve? Then work to devise a tailored plan to get you there.
1. Research
We leverage our rich data set of producers and wines, by country, region, appellation, grape varietal, faming, certification, price points, etc.
2. Identify
Based on the research and your target customer criteria, we will identify the most suitable target prospects.
3. Connect
We make the introductions and set-up an exploratory conversation between your company and the target prospect and organize in-person and virtual trade tastings to facilitate buyer-to-seller introductions.
What are our key principles?
Focus on you
Your North Star defines our focus. We work in pursuit of your North Star.
Transparency
Through transparent and timely one-on-one communication, we provide answers that are verifiable, current, and specific to your needs.
Agile
We have mastered the agile principles because we believe that they yield the best outcomes. We take you on a journey with us and you are the co-captain.
Funding
Some of our activities are eligible for funding from multitude programs focused on supporting export development.
The Principles We Live By
This has been our internal compass on what we do and how we do it to serve you, our clients, in those defining moments that matter. We decided to share them openly as they speak to our culture and the North Star that guides our actions.
Would you like to design a wine program that doesn’t just fill glasses—but builds loyalty, margin, and brand equity?
Whether you're a seasoned operator or just getting started, we bring clarity, creativity, and actionable insight to every collaboration. Via our partnership with
Vinerra.com we can connect you directly with importers and producers of quality-driven food and beverage products from around the world.
Vinerra
Want to learn more about wine? Then why not wander the world of wine with Vinerra!
We are excited to announce our strategic partnership with Vinerra, a rapidly expanding wine media platform. The partnership promises to elevate Vino Al Vino's dedication to curating artisanal, limited-production wines, our commitment to environmental sustainability, and our advocacy for diversity in the wine industry. Benefits of this collaboration include enhanced brand visibility, targeted marketing to wine aficionados, and educational engagement, positioning Vino Al Vino as an industry authority. The alliance aims to enrich the wine landscape, offering producers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts unique insights and experiences in the ever-evolving wine realm.
Discover the rationale and the value proposition behind this strategic partnership in the detailed
Case Study.
