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Fifty 5 Degrees of Steamboat offers clients concierge wine service. Our white glove approach allows a variety of opportunities to curate collections for wine enthusiasts. We provide our clients with private sommeliers to consult, evaluate, and maximize the efficiency of any cellar. Our goal is to enhance your quality of life through the love of wine.

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55° is the optimum temperature for storing wine. 

Our business model at Fifty 5 Degrees has been cultivated from decades of expertise in the wine industry. 


Located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, we are living the life of play at a world class resort where the sophistication of fine wine is appreciated and cultivated with high altitude expectations. 


Collection

"Wine is a drinkable expression of time and place".


Building your ideal collection is based on availability, value, but most importantly, your palate. The objective to cellaring is to allow the wine a chance to evolve properly. Whether it be a refrigerated cabinet, an insulated closet or the catacombs of Burgundy, a consistent environment is what the juice needs to develop. A cellar can accrue value through proper strategy, purchasing, and storage. Some wines hold or vastly increase in value over time. The key is understanding, just like any commodity, which bottles to purchase, when to buy and when to sell.



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Cellar Management

Cellar management is imperative to perpetuate longevity and maximize the value of a collection. Once we have made our acquisitions, it is then our task to properly cellar our treasures. We begin with a cool, humid enclosed environment. The earth provides us with what is necessary, however, that is not always an option. At Fifty 5 Degrees, we are excited to share our years of experience in developing the physical space for proper wine maturation. We can facilitate the development of your home cellar or offer space for your wine in our temperature controlled facility.


 A vessel of grape juice is not only the result of the winemaker's artisan craft; it is a developing entity in a constant state of evolution. Our cellaring objective is to allow the wine a chance to develop properly. 

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Appraisals

Knowing the current market value of every bottle in your collection provides the data necessary to make sound decisions on the sustainability of your collection. This also allows you to identifying opportunities to acquire and divest assets to strengthen and diversify your cellar. Furthermore, having fingertip access to the value of your collection makes charitable donations effortless. In the marketplace for aged wine, the main risk factor affecting the assessed value of your collection is whether the wine has been properly cellared. We provide a regular inspection of your cellar to assure private buyers and auction houses that your wine can be priced at a premium.


Once we have appraised your collection's current value and certified that your cellar's environment is appropriate, the next step is to properly insure your collection. Insurance is a serious consideration for wine collectors and investors. The majority of collections can be insured under a homeowner's policy, especially, if the wine is for private consumption. However, once we elevate to the next level of value, a stand-alone 'valuable articles' policy needs to be arranged. We have some great insight to share on this subject.

Cataloging

Cataloging your collection is quite helpful for a variety of reasons. Keeping an updated record of what has accumulated in your cellar can help with future purchasing, valuing and therefore insuring said collection. It can also assist with a comprehensive account of which wines are ready to drink and which ones are to hold. 


Organizing a collection is obviously justified to create a comprehensive analysis of value, consumption and future purchasing. We developed our program for the ease of the user.


The individual breakdown of growing regions, vintage and varietal can assist with your overall cellar vision.


With Club 55°’s comprehensive inventory management software you can: view your entire inventory, bottle by bottle



  • Submit transfer and personal pick up requests
  • Share wine reviews with fellow Club 55° members
  • Create and manage an unlimited number of personal cellars in multiple locations


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Event planning

With a half century of experience as members of two overlapping industries, service and wine, Fifty 5 degrees believes that wine is most valuable when shared with excellent fare, friends, and family. We believe that every bottle opened and glass drunk is a toast to the beauty and richness of the earth and the life it provides. This passion and enthusiasm, which we gladly share, can elevate any event to the next level. Having your own personal wine concierge is our commitment to assist you in any capacity.


Fundraising/Public speaking/Auctions

Culinary classes/ wine education

Tastings in your home

Private consultations


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