Nicola Perrone worked as a waiter at London's Le Querce before switching to wine and began his professional sommelier training in January 2013. Later that year, he joined Gordon Ramsay's Maze as commis sommelier, continuing his studies. In January 2015, Perrone was officially certified as a sommelier by the Court of Master Sommeliers. He left Maze in 2016 after rising through the ranks to become an assistant head sommelier. He has since worked at Luca in Clerkenwell and Jason Atherton's City Social, Orrery in Marylebone, and was responsible for the beverage program in Launceston Place in Kensington.

Currently he is the Head of Wine - Asia at Zuma Restaurants. Zuma is a chain of Japanese Izakaya-style restaurants founded in 2002 by Divia Lalvani, Rainer Becker, and Arjun Waney. The first Zuma location opened in the Knightsbridge area of London, with a concept developed by Becker during his six years working in Tokyo, where he immersed himself in Japanese food and culture.