A Different Kind of
Travel Advisory
A Boutique Advisory
We plan private journeys across the world's great wine regions, and just as often across the coast, the bush, Japan, and the cities that matter. Wine is where Velluto started, not where it ends.
We take on a small number of trips each year so every one gets our full attention. A founder, destination specialists, private guides, and on-the-ground partners in every region we serve work each trip from the first call to the day you land home.
Every recommendation we make is one we would give our own family. That only works if the list stays short, so it does.
Anthony Clemenza
Anthony Clemenza is a sommelier trained with the Court of Master Sommeliers and a former attorney. He founded Velluto Travel after years spent building relationships across Europe’s wine regions.
He is also the founder of Prestige Vin Affaires, the wine house that backs Velluto’s cellar access, and he leads our advisory team, working personally with every client who comes to the firm.
“Every itinerary I design gets my full attention. Every recommendation is one I’d stake my reputation on.”
— Anthony Clemenza
Trust, Earned
These affiliations provide our clients with preferred access, exclusive amenities, and the assurance of working with a vetted, independently verified advisor.
The Same Rate.
Considerably More.
Through Fora Travel we hold access to Virtuoso’s preferred rates at the hotels you’d want anyway. You pay what the hotel would charge you directly. The hotel adds the rest.
At participating Virtuoso and preferred-partner properties. Amenities are provided by the property and subject to availability.
Not a Solo Act
Your advisor
Anthony leads every trip personally, from the first call to the day you land home.
Destination specialists and private guides
In every region we serve, a specialist and private guides who know it far better than a guidebook.
Fora Travel and Virtuoso
Preferred access to Virtuoso's rates and amenities, through our affiliation with Fora Travel.
Prestige Vin Affaires
Our sister wine house, backed by relationships with growers and cellar masters across Europe.
Prestige Vin Affaires
Velluto is backed by the wine expertise of Prestige Vin Affaires, our sister wine house. Its relationships are with the people who make the wine: producers, cellar masters, and families who have worked the same slopes for generations.
Those relationships are why a Velluto journey can include the appointment that is never offered publicly, the bottle that does not leave the property, and a conversation that happens only between people who already know each other.
Prestige Vin Affaires chooses the wine. Velluto looks after everything else: the hotels, the logistics, and the responsibility for everything in between.
The best trips send you home understanding the place, and yourself, a little better.
If you've read this far, we should talk. I'd love to hear what you're dreaming about. No commitment, just a conversation.
— Anthony