The business
behind taste.
Independent management consultancy
dedicated to taste, place & experience.
Europe · UK · Asia
Place · People · Product
What would you
cross town for?
A table that understands its neighbourhood. A bottle that takes you somewhere. A performance that stays with you. We ask what draws people across a city—and what makes them return.
The grower who shares his connection to the land. A room that gets the rhythm right. A welcome that makes you feel you belong. Those moments stay with you, long after the first taste.
Emotional
economy.Intelligent
economy.
Understanding what draws people in, and what gives a business a future.
The mandate
We connect wine, hospitality and travel with the brands and platforms that bring them to a wider audience. Our work carries the character of a place into new markets, partnerships and experiences, with the commercial thinking to make them last.
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A few ways
this takes shape.
An estate finding recognition. A restaurant meeting a new audience. A local idea travelling further. Each project draws on the people, the place and the business behind it.
01Market insight · UK route to market
Château Gigognan
A legend in the making.
Bringing the character and ambition of this Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate to the people buying, serving and discovering its wines in the UK.
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02Brand management · UK market development
Inama
A direct connection between the Inama family, Hallgarten and the UK restaurants and merchants introducing their wines to new audiences.
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03Platform partnerships · Hospitality experiences
Made to Taste · Visa Destination Dining
Bringing chefs, producers and distinctive places together for dining experiences curated with Made to Taste for Visa Destination Dining.
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04Brand development · Commercial planning · UK market entry
Vignerons du Mont Ventoux · Le Goût de l’Altitude
Giving the mountain, its growers and their wines a shared expression through Le Goût de l’Altitude, and a route to new UK audiences.
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05Experiential & experimental marketing
Nexus Azeo · 360 AI
Exploring what moves people, using AI to make knowledge more useful, and turning that understanding into experiences and ideas to test.
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From a wine stall at Borough Market to founding Bedales, leading Vinothec Group and developing Robert Parker Wine Advocate’s European business, Arnaud Compas has built a career around the people and places that give wine its meaning. Along the way, he has curated exceptional wine events, creating encounters between producers, their wines and new audiences. His MPhil in Geography informs a lasting curiosity: how the character of a place travels, finds recognition and becomes part of someone else’s world.
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What catches
our attention.
Wine has been our starting point for exploring hospitality, culture and the ways people come together. Building businesses, curating experiences and working with creative people have shaped a curiosity about what gives a place its character and an idea its appeal. We follow how local identities travel, how different perspectives meet, and how a new venture finds both an audience and a commercial future. These are notes from that wider world.
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What are you
working on?
A business to develop, a place to introduce or an idea taking shape. Tell us what you have in mind.
arnaud@nexusazeo.com