A $150/month New York Desk for market intelligence and direct support. Field work commissioned when you need it, at a fixed cost you approve first.
Whether you fly in from the West Coast or Europe, the pattern is the same: a few days tasting buyers and riding with reps, followed by months of silence.
You always see what happened, what the buyer said, and what happens next.
Month-to-month. No long-term retainer lock-in.
Instead of a large monthly retainer, you commission field work one activation at a time. Once your $150/month desk is active, you choose from our member rate card, with most activations starting in the low hundreds:
You approve the exact scope and fixed cost before we step into an account.
Fonte is run by wine professionals: twenty years of studying, tasting, collecting and selling fine wine, including work on the buying side of a New York restaurant wine program.
Fonte is powered by Giro, our proprietary intelligence system behind every update.
Giro maps 7,500+ licensed NYC venues, 1,600+ Italian, French, Mediterranean and fine-dining wine programs, 775 hospitality groups by ownership, and 800+ pending liquor-license applications.
Figures as of October 2026, rounded down.
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