Sommelier services · Florida
Alongside the import business, Gustavo Piteo works directly with restaurants, hotels, retailers, companies and private collectors: tastings, staff training, wine education, pairings, and building a list or a cellar worth having.
Gustavo is a certified sommelier and oenologist, with qualifications from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, the Wine Scholar Guild and the Sherry Council of Jerez. He runs every session himself; you are not handed to a sales rep.
Each of these is shaped around what you need, so nothing below is a fixed package. Tell us what you have in mind and Gustavo will put something together.
Alongside the importing, Gustavo works directly with restaurants and their service teams to build a wine culture that serves both knowledge and sales.
The aim is not only to teach a team about wine, but to help them talk about it, recommend it and sell it with confidence, without ever losing the honesty of the experience for the guest.
A guided tasting for your team, your clients or your guests, led in person and built around whatever the occasion calls for.
Floor and bar training for restaurants, hotels and retailers, so your staff can sell wine with confidence instead of reading the label back to the guest.
Turning what a team knows into what a team sells: how to present a wine, read a table and make a recommendation that lands.
The mechanics of serving wine properly, so the ritual at the table looks effortless and deliberate rather than improvised.
Structured classes for people who want to understand wine properly, whether that is a hospitality team or a private group.
Pairings designed against a real menu: your dishes, your kitchen, your price points.
An outside palate on your list: what to keep, what to cut, and what is missing.
Help building and looking after a cellar, for a restaurant that stores its own or a private collector starting one.
Tell us roughly what you are after: a tasting for the office, training for a new floor team, a look at your list. A rough idea is enough to start.
He will ask about your guests, your menu and what you want people to walk away with, then propose a format that fits.
Rates depend on the format, the length and the wines involved, so they are quoted per engagement rather than listed here. Once you are happy, we book it in.
For availability, rates, or to talk through an idea that isn’t on this page, get in touch and you will speak to him directly.
Planning a single occasion instead? Private, group and pairing tastings, and the different formats they can take, are on bespoke wine experiences.
These services are offered to businesses and to private clients alike. They are consulting and education, booked separately from the wine we distribute. Real Vinum sells wine only to licensed Florida trade accounts.
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