The roots of our professional advisory services grew from our business-to-business portfolio of clients.  Since our inception, PROTOCOL has maintained a docket of well-chosen professional relationships with various wine related organizations.

Our unusual consulting model focuses on creating mutual opportunity for our client and PROTOCOL.  At times we’ve elected to pursue a strategic alignment with other businesses that compliments each individual business model, thus ensuring each becomes stronger.  Under other circumstances we’ve created a more traditional consulting arrangement.

Areas where we have consulted with other businesses successfully include:

• Wine Industry Consulting: We possess a wide breadth of experience in advising wine related enterprises to aid in the expansion of their business.  Previous examples include: restaurants, retailers, wine storage facilities, educators and broad based media enterprises including bloggers, sommeliers and writers.
• Retail Services Development: Includes working with wine retailers to develop relationships with the wholesale trade, expand offerings and focus sales efforts.  Our work includes advising traditional brick and mortar retail shops, hybrid organizations that offer retail and on premise service as well as on line retailers.
• Development of Restaurant Wine Lists: As Sommeliers we pride ourselves on monitoring the pulse of the on-premise marketplace.  We consult with restaurants and tasting bars that are interested in elevating the concept of their wine program to reflect evolving trends in the marketplace.
• Professional Grade Wine Management: There’s a rare and select breed of cliental whose interests in wine collecting evolve from a hobby to a commercial enterprise.  Special resources are often required for these individuals to effectively maintain their interests.  We offer professional grade management services to assist the commercial collector in the administration of both their wine collection and the myriad of resources required to execute their strategic plans.

Working with other businesses to establish a professional wine advisory requires careful research and diligent partnering practices.  The first step in this process is to present your need to PROTOCOL.  From this point we can research your situation and advise if we may be of assistance.  Please feel free to contact us for a consultation.