About LOT852 - Paris
Independent Judgment, Built in Paris.
A wine-first private advisory founded by Stanley Wong for clients who want to choose, understand and acquire wine with greater clarity.
Stanley Wong
A decade across wine, service and private clients.
Stanley Wong is a Hong Kong-born, Paris-based wine professional and the founder of LOT852 - Paris.
His experience spans sommelier service, fine-wine retail, luxury customer service and private-client advisory. He works in English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese.
The role of an independent advisor is not to make every bottle sound desirable. It is to distinguish what is appropriate from what is merely available.
Selected experience
Fine-wine retail
Producer, vintage, allocation and private-client decisions in Paris.
Sommelier service
Wine as part of a table, an occasion and a real service context.
Private advisory
Focused judgment before purchase, service and cellar development.
Cross-cultural service
European wine experience with Asian client expectations and gifting culture.
Working philosophy
"The value of advice is not in making more things desirable. It is in making the decision clearer."
Paris, London and Hong Kong
Wine is chosen inside a culture, not in a vacuum.
Different cities create different relationships with prestige, hospitality, gifting, merchants and the meaning of a collection.
LOT852 brings those contexts into the recommendation. The same bottle may be appropriate for one client, table or cellar - and entirely wrong for another.
Developing field
Wine first. A wider collecting culture in development.
Stanley is extending his study into art, auctions and the wider cultural-asset market. Wine remains LOT852's established field of authority; adjacent disciplines are developed through formal learning, observation and specialist collaboration.
Work with LOT852