Expert Wine Cellar consulting and collection management

building a world-class wine cellar is easier than you think when you have the right consultant. Eliminate the guess work and fill your collection with bottles you’ll treasure.

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Our Process

Our wine cellar consulting process is built around your lifestyle, your palate, and your vision.

TJ Douglas Boston wine cellar consultant reviewing a wine collection during a cellar consultation

Every great wine cellar starts with a conversation. We’ll discuss your storage set up, budget, timeline, and the mix of everyday drinking wines, premium bottles, and allocated releases you’re looking for. Whether you’re designing a custom wine cellar from scratch or organizing an existing collection, we build a plan around your goals (and have a lot of fun doing it!).

Initial Cellar Consultation

Based on our initial conversation, we’ll develop a purchasing plan to meet your goals. From bluechip brands to up-and-coming regions, we guide you on how to fill your cellar on your timeline, and on your budget.

Develop a purchasing plan

Heading on vacation to an exciting wine region? Use our global connections to tour and taste at our favorite wineries. We’re here to consult on what your cellar really needs (and what should stay a vacation memory!). Also available to accompany our clients on national and international buying trips.

BUYING Trips

We recommend quarterly onsite visits to maintain a current inventory, make suggestions for upcoming dinners and events, and highlight the “need to drink soon” bottles in your collection.

Ongoing management

Looking to BUild a Cellar FIrst?

TJ also works with architects and interior designers at the design stage. Learn about our wine cellar design consulting services.

Beautifully organized private wine cellar collection designed and managed by Urban Cellar Consulting TJ Douglas

“TJ Transformed our Unorganized Collection by reshelving the bottles in a way that made sense for how we drink wine. He also set us up with a full inventory on cellar tracker and helped us source some Allocated birth year wine for our kids!”

- Mike, Boston

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