How We Work
Getting Your Wines Into The UK
Let us explain how we connect your wines with buyers, importers and distributors here in the UK. Our process of presenting your wines, ex-cellar prices & story to small independent importers to the big named distributors.
Monthly themed professional tastings:
In central London, we organise and host countless mini, personal tasting events with some of the industry's more senior professionals along with up and coming talent.
An example is What in the Somm?, a monthly lunchtime tasting led by a Master Sommelier with a small group of other active sommeliers from venues across London.
Monthly wine social events:
With dedicated monthly tastings to wine buyers and wine professionals, we see that wine social events are a great way to warm influencers and buyers to your wines and your brand.
Our Thoughts Leaders & Honest Debates is a monthly afternoon wine and food pairing tasting led by a Master of Wine. Each are themed on a trending topic in the wine sector.
We also organise many other tastings including Wine Clubs for more influential consumer wine buyers who've persuasion on HoReCa wine lists.
Clerissa's unique scoring system:
It is vital that we engage our selected guests with our client wines, we do this by our price and value scoring method. All wines are presented with no indication of price, guests discuss then estimate the ex-cellar / RRP price.
Once we declare the actual price point, we gain valuable feedback from our fellow wine professionals with either constructive advice given or keen interest to look at purchasing.
Masterclasses, dinners and trade tastings:
Sometimes we need to go BIG by way of dedicated masterclasses showing our clients full ranges and an exploration of their terroir.
We also connect our client wines with varied sponsored events across London including those in the art, travel and food. sectors
Trade tastings seeing 100's of guests attending we also manage, a perfect way to show regional and portfolio clients that we manage.
Attracting the best people and brands:
By organising some of the best and most engaging wine events in London, we attract a growing audience of influential wine professionals that can make the difference to your wines and brand. We connect with Master of Wine's, WSET® Dip's, HoReCa owners, key influencers along with importer / distributor names such as Amathus, Jeroboams, Champagnes & Châteaux UK, Majestic Wines and many more.
The most common questions we get asked so let's get you the answers:
Do you buy and / or sell wine? No, we are not importers, distributors or wholesalers. We do not purchase wines to sell to the industry, but we know a lot of people who do!​
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How long have you been doing this? We have been in this sector for over 12 years now helping wineries to get sales and brand awareness to the UK market and beyond. Our clients include those of our co-brand Glass of Bubbly.
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Have any of your clients had success? Yes, plenty do get success depending on their requirements. Most of our clients focus on finding an importer and wines we have worked with are now in the UK market. We also provide our clients invaluable feedback from senior wine professionals to help guide them better in their pursuit of entering the UK market.
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Can you help us in how we should send wines to the UK for you to sample? Yes, more information is here for you.​
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Do you work on a commission structure? We are afraid that is not an option we offer. The reason is that we invest a lot of time and percentage of our fees to weekly tasting events in London and the commission fee structure does not support our concept.
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