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Cellar management

On Board & Ashore

Inventory, rotation, drinking windows and yard-period storage — run by the team that supplies the cellar

Yacht Wine Cellar Management — On Board & Ashore

A yacht cellar is the hardest cellar in the world to run well: small, warm-blooded, raided nightly, and handed between stewardesses every season or two. Managing it from a spreadsheet built by three crew ago is how bottles vanish and owner favourites run out mid-trip. We manage cellars properly — because we also supply them.

Inventory that survives crew change

A live cellar record with bin mapping: what is aboard, where it sits, what it cost, and what it is for. When crew change comes, the handover is a document, not folklore — the new stewardess knows the owner's Sunday Champagne and the charter guests' repeat requests on day one.

Rotation and drinking windows

Wines have appointments. We track drinking windows across the cellar and flag what should be poured this season, what needs another year, and what should never have gone aboard in July. The cellar stays an asset, not an archive of missed moments.

Season to season

Med to Caribbean, and back. We help decide what sails, what stores and what sells — then restock on the other side through our Caribbean network (St Barts, Antigua, Sint Maarten). Delicate bottles skip the crossing; the cellar is right on arrival in both hemispheres.

Yard periods: the wine comes ashore

A yacht in refit is no place for Burgundy — power down, temperatures up, contractors everywhere. We collect the cellar into our climate-controlled storage near Antibes (€24 per case per year ex VAT, insured up to €100,000, fully documented) and return it racked and recorded when she recommissions.

Re-provisioning without drama

Same-day on the Côte d'Azur, worldwide through the season — the provisioning service that built our name, wired directly into your cellar records so the re-order list writes itself.

The owner's cellars, ashore too

Many of our management relationships extend to the owner's homes: private cellars set up and run to the same standard, through one account — often coordinated with the family office. One list, one supplier, every cellar — afloat and ashore.

Cellar management FAQs

A live inventory with bin mapping, drinking-window tracking, rotation plans, guest and owner preference records, re-provisioning before each trip, and a clean handover pack when crew change. You always know what is aboard, where it sits, and what to pour tonight.

It comes ashore to our climate-controlled storage near Antibes — €24 per case per year ex VAT, insured up to €100,000, fully documented. A yard in August is no place for Burgundy. When the yacht is back in commission, the cellar returns racked and recorded.

Yes — we help you decide what sails, what stores and what sells, then restock on the other side through our Caribbean network (St Barts, Antigua, Sint Maarten). Temperature-sensitive bottles should not cross on deck level; we plan so they never have to.

With records, not folklore. We prepare a handover pack: inventory by bin, open-bottle status, owner and repeat-guest preferences, and the re-order list. The new stewardess looks competent on day one — which is the whole job.

Yes — one standard, afloat and ashore. We set up and manage private cellars for owners, family offices and collectors with the same records, windows and replenishment discipline. One list, one supplier, every cellar.