Ok, so every wine club out there offers some sort of extras. California Wine Club is consistent and fairly aggressive with their offers of discounts on wine. There are of course, plenty of other examples. I don’t want extras to only mean discounts on bottles of wine either. I’ve known other wine clubs, especially those …
Look, anyone who has looked around at various wine club reviews even for five minutes has found them, crappy reviews of wine clubs because a consumer couldn’t cancel in a timely manner. When I operated my own wine club, I allowed people to cancel via email, phone or even online without any intervention on my …
I recently published a page that helps to explain how I rate wine clubs…..in the coming days I’ll be writing about each of my rating elements and sharing how I came to believe that it was important. First, mostly because I think it’s probably the easiest category: shipping timeframes. Ok, so my shipping timeframe rating …
I’ll get to writing about some of the new Sommelier led wine clubs in a bit, but I have one basic question to ask of them before jumping in. First and foremost, I think that Sommelier’s are going to be able to do the one thing that I still, stubbornly perhaps, think is the most …
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It’s something I thought of yesterday, writing about the sheer number of returns and chargebacks that wine clubs can experience this time of year. I thought you might be wondering, so when you click that dispute button on your credit cards website, what happens next? So from the consumers perspective, all good right away. For …
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It’s something that friends often ask. What was your least favorite part of owning a wine club? Quite honestly, it was this week. So some background. For most wine clubs, the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas accounts for somewhere between 33% and 50% of their sales for the year. Sure, there are a number of …
Pennsylvania is an interesting state on a number of levels when it comes to wine shipping, but before I get into more specifics on wine clubs shipping to Pennsylvania, it’s important to note what we’re talking about in terms of alcohol laws in the state. In essence, Pennsylvania is still catching up, frankly, to modern …
So here’s an interesting question that comes up every so often around this time of year: why don’t wine clubs advertise New Year’s Eve wine? As most of you probably either know, or realize, New Years Eve is one of the biggest selling days of the year for sparkling wine. So why aren’t wine clubs, …
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When it comes to holiday shipping, you’ll often see online wine clubs with notes on their websites that say something to the effect of, “order by December 10th, to receive your wine for Christmas!”. Many consumers, think that’s awfully early. Here’s why: Ok, so first of all, when you’re planning a shipping schedule you have …
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California Wine Club (read our in depth review here) has a short note that the wine they sell has its title transferred in California. You might be wondering why? I’ll go into more detail in a coming post, but generally speaking our alcohol shipping laws are centered around a bunch of Prohibition era statutes…..which, as …
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