We are delighted to announce that we will be w o r k i n g a l o n g s i d e Y a c h t G o u r m e t C r o a t i a (www.yachtgourmetcroatia.com) this season to ensure that you get the best advice, service and, most importantly, WINE & Provisions when you leave the French Riviera and head off to the beautiful Dalmatian coast.

1. Volume 2, Issue 1 FWW—Wine Supply to
Summer 2011
Yachts SUMMER 2011
You may already have been aware that Fine Wine Works has been offer-
ing WSET® Wine & Spirit Training courses to Yacht Crew for the last 2
½ years. This has spontaneously led to a number of our Graduates ask-
ing if we could assist with their on-board wine requirements and so we
launched our Winefinder concept at the end of 2009.
Due to exceptional demand this has now evolved into a FULL Wine &
Spirit supply business here on the Riviera for the Mediterranean season.
FWW can offer a bespoke recommendation, quote & sourcing service
based on Charter Guest Preferences for wines and without “forcing” you
to take what we have in stock, we can give an unrivalled selection of the
best from the World of Wine.
We are now in full operational mode but we realised that as this has crept
into being, without a big bang, that perhaps some of our potential cus-
tomers & clients are not even aware that
we are able to do this!
What we don’t do is Provisioning, Soft
Drinks and Beers – we are specialists in
our field of Wine. So if it’s a Wine related
FineWineWorks NEWS
query—ask the experts!!
Helen & Nigel Brotherton
WWW.FINEWINEWORKS.COM
Yacht Wine Suppliers on the Riviera
www.finewineworks.com
Food & Wine Matching—does it make a difference?
An area in which our clients seem to really appreciate the FWW “little bit extra” is in
our Food and Wine Matching recommendations. Where guests and charterers have
selected food preferences or indeed actual event menus, we have tailor made the wine
proposals to fit perfectly. Sometimes offering the quirky and unusual alongside the
more traditional fare, we always try to stay well within the client’s budget and with
Helen’s background in both cheffing and restaurant ownership, we can offer a tangi-
ble and exciting in depth understanding of flavours whilst unravelling some of the
mysteries of “food & wine matching” After sourcing just the right wines to match the
menus at a Monaco Grand Prix event we received the following feedback comment
from a Chief Stew “Your expertise has made my life so much easier! THANK YOU!”
Inside this issue: Special points of interest:
NEW— Croatia for 2011 2
• Yacht Gourmet Croatia:
Winesave “serve and preserve” 2 a new alliance!
WSET® Global Statistics 2 • Winesave - for keeping opened
wine...perfectly!
Winefinder 3
• Vilmart champagne—the on board
FWW Treasure Trove 3 “house champagne” with a difference
PYA Initiative & WSET ® 3 • 100% pass rate for WSET® Advanced
Vilmart champagne on board 4 course!

2. Yacht Gourmet Croatia—a new alliance!
Your Wine Supply & Provisioning ther to meet your needs on a very per-
needs in Croatia solved!!! We are sonal level and who can offer a real
delighted to announce that we will be and refreshing alternative to the other
w o r k i n g a l o n g s i d e “big fish” suppliers here in the Medi-
Yacht Gourmet Croatia terranean.
(www.yachtgourmetcroatia.com) this
season to ensure that you get the best We do not take a “slice” of their busi-
advice, service and, most importantly, ness, but we share knowledge, con-
WINE & Provisions when you leave tacts and goals. Knowing
the French Riviera and head off to the The dynamic duo of Alessia & Marin should be your first call for provisions and that we probably have more
beautiful Dalmatian coast. wines anywhere along the Croatian coast mutual and crossover
yachting customers than
As a small (but perfectly formed!) even we realise, here is an
wine requirement. So, having known
enterprise and business in an indus- opportunity to make sure that at least
how Alessia & Marin of have been
try that demands such high levels of some of your charter destinations this
building a loyal and resolute cus-
excellence, we here at FWW have Summer will be serviced and looked
tomer basis for a long time in Croatia,
recognised that where we can’t quite after smoothly and efficiently. If you
we recognise ourselves in them. We
stretch geographically in terms of are planning to visit Croatia with
can see that, like us, they are a deter-
service, a similar sized & focussed owners or charterers this season, just
mined young and independent busi-
company elsewhere in the Med could let us know: we will then alert Alessia
ness, whose staff will go so much fur-
take over to meet your every need & & Marin to your imminent arrival!
FWW have been selected as Distributors in tics of colour and taste. broadens the opportunity to taste many dif-
France for this new, revolutionary and in- ferent wines matched perfectly with different
For the wine drinker, this means you can
novative “must have” product. winesave® dishes. winesave will ensure that every
enjoy the luxury of wines by the glass at
keeps opened wine at its peak for weeks after glass is as pristine as the
home. It also means that you
it has first been opened. Oxidation and the first even if the bottle has
will never again waste any
resulting spoilage of opened wine is now a been opened for days or
wine because of oxidation, Legendary winemaker Philippe
thing of the past. winesave protects opened even weeks.
nor ever feel compelled to
wine by laying a pure, inert and odourless Guigal says “winesave actually
finish a bottle just because it winesave® works just as
gas called argon (which is heavier than air)
has been opened. works perfectly…” well with Champagnes and
across the wine's surface in the bottle,
even has a use in the galley
thereby protecting its complex characteris- For guests and owners this
WSET® Wine Courses and Training—the global picture:
For the number crunchers amongst their paces since Sept with • We have a 95% Pass rate
us—FWW the FACTS: over 88% of those directly for Level 2 Intermediate
involved in the Yachting (against Global average 90%)
For the Academic Year 2010 /11
and Wine related indus-
(since Sep 2010) FWW have held 19 • We have a 100% Pass rate
tries
WSET® accredited Wine Courses (at for Level 3 Advanced
all levels) Global comparisons: ALL at either Merit or Distinction
(against Global average 80%)
3 of these courses were on board • We have a 100% Pass
yachts rate with Level 1 Founda- FWW is a WSET ® FWW are there for Wine
Training when and where they
FWW have put 83 students through tion (against Global average Certified Educator and Ap-
92%) proved Programme Provider are needed.
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3. Winefinder and the “Treasure Trove”
Our Winefinder service procures drink” wines (particularly Bor- to supply some top wines to
wines absolutely to order from deaux and Italian) at truly com- drink this Summer at truly un-
the best sources in terms of petitive and exciting prices. paralleled prices!
Price and Provenance.
This supports our pioneering This is not a permanent
If you can, ideally, give us a few Winefinder ethic with an ability catalogue: it will change regu-
days to search, we can typi- larly as parcels are acquired and
cally save you 20% on your sold. Typically we would expect
purchases with no hidden to have a stock of 50 or more
charges. This of course, for different wines, which fit our
fine wines, can mean hun- particular brief of being both
dreds or thousands of euros. ready to drink and enjoy imme-
diately AND at prices which rep-
However, what we have also
resent a shrewd investment
decided to do is to pick up
should you wish to hang on to
small parcels of more mature
them a little longer!
Fine Wines around Europe so
that we can offer “ready to “...a thoroughly outstanding wine” Just ask Helen for details!
Wine Spectator 92 Points
How some of our little TT gems fare competitively!
Here is just a snippet of some of the • Ch Palmer 2000 • Ch Pontet Canet
Treasure Trove of Ready to Drink 3ème Cru Classé Margaux, Bordeaux
One of the sexiest wines for drinking now 1996
wines we now have available (in their FWW @ 377€ and over the next 10-15 years is undoubtedly
5 ème Cru Classé Pauillac, Bordeaux
(nearest competitor @
own air-conditioned storage facility) 420€)
the 2000 Palmer. FWW @ 103€
and where they compare price-wise 95 points (nearest competitor @ 116€)
with some of the Major Suppliers here • Ch Lynch Bages Robert Parker
on the Riviera! 1999 • Sassicaia 2000
5 ème Cru Classé Pauillac, Bordeaux Tuscany, Italy
• Ch Ducru Beaucaillou 1996 FWW @ 139€ (nearest competitor FWW @ 265€
2 ème Cru Classé St Julien, Bordeaux @ 170€) (nearest competitor @
FWW @ 218€ 285€)
(nearest competitor @ 262€)
Wine Courses & Tastings planned for Croatia
FWW are now in their third year as an every crew migrates back to the Medi-
Approved Programme Provider for the terranean after the summer season and We are delighted too, that the PYA
WSET® and although there is the usual that many of the new marinas and ship- (Professional Yachtsman’s Associa-
lull in the course calendar for the Sum- yards in Croatia are offering a strong tion) has instigated an initiative to
mer season, we do still offer courses on alternative to the usual post season develop an industry standard of training
a bespoke basis to yacht crew stuck in berths. and certification for interior yacht crew
the yard, on a new-build project or which encompasses Levels 1 to 3 of the
even just with a gap between charters! So with this in mind we are planning a Wine & Spirit Education Trusts Quali-
series of WSET and other training fication courses. We look forward to
courses and tutored tastings of local this progressing!
As part of collaboration with Yacht Croatian wines for a week in mid-
Gourmet Croatia we are aware that not October.
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4. FINEWINEWORKS
WWW.FINEWINEWORKS.COM
NHB Riviera SARL
5, Allée des Pins
2618, route de Grasse
06140 Vence
Phone: +33 (0)6 42 15 51 21
General E-mail: info@finewineworks.com
Food and Wine- A winning
Combination
Check out Helen’s BLOGS on the
website
Make Vilmart champagne your “on board” Champagne
Over the last 18 months we have champagne, one which the Wine simple way of carrying through the
made impressive headway with our Advocate refers to as incredibly refined and stylish
elite artisan Champagne house, “breathtaking”. branding message that is a
Vilmart & Cie. Now listed by recurring theme of many Super-
The next stage was to offer a por-
several major Superyachts as their yachts.
tion of the tiny quantity available as
“on board house champagne”, this
truly personal- Striking gifts for owners to bestow
small grower champagne is
ized with dis- on their guests on board and an im-
“just different”.
creet, elegant pressive opportunity to extol the
Unlike most Champagne elipse shaped elite and unique experience that is
houses, Laurent Champs, labels showing yacht chartering where not only do
owner of the family run house, the yacht’s you want to be “just different”...you
has 11 hectares of 1er Cru vine- logo on the want it to be “just perfect” as well.
yards around Rilly La Mon- neck of the
For more details on how to have
tagne, south of Reims and bottle above
your personalized on board cham-
along with rigorous selection of the main label
pagne from Vilmart contact:
fruit and extended ageing peri- itself. This is
info@finewineworks.com
ods, chooses to traditionally not a tacky
ferment the base wines in oak “Sunday sup- We tried the Vilmart last night
rather than stainless steel. plement” type and it was fantastic!! Thank you
of self glorifi- for the heads up on that one I
So along with a select few, like think it will be the house cham-
cation, but a
Bollinger & Krug, you get to pagne this year for sure!!
pure and
experience an altogether richer
and more complex style of Vilmart “Coeur de Cuvée” - acclaimed by critics as a “mini Krug” Head Chef MY Maraya