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Wine Club Scorecard

For Winery Owners, GMs & Wine Club Managers


Your Wine Club Deserves Better Than a Best Guess


Talk to enough wine club managers and a pattern starts to emerge. The club is running. Shipments are going out. Members are renewing, mostly. And yet there is this persistent, low-grade frustration that things could be doing so much more, and nobody can quite agree on what better actually looks like or where to start.


That is not a people problem. It is not even really a strategy problem. It is what happens when you are managing something genuinely complex without a clear baseline to work from.


Wine clubs are one of the most valuable revenue channels a winery can have. Done well, they create reliable recurring income, deepen customer loyalty, and turn occasional buyers into genuine advocates. But they are also difficult to manage well. You are balancing member experience, logistics, pricing, retention, acquisition, and brand storytelling all at once. And most teams are doing it without any real benchmark for how they are performing relative to what is possible.


You fix what is loudest, not necessarily what matters most.

So decisions get made on feel. Churn ticks up and the instinct is to throw a discount at it. Acquisition slows and suddenly everyone is debating whether to restructure the club tiers. Revenue per shipment plateaus and nobody is quite sure if that is a pricing issue, a product issue, or just the market.


What the best clubs do differently

The wineries that run their clubs well tend to have one thing in common: they have taken the time to actually understand where they stand. Not in a vague, gut-check kind of way, but specifically. They know their retention rate and what is driving it. They know which member segments are most valuable and why. They know where their acquisition funnel leaks and what a realistic cost per new member should look like. That clarity changes how they make decisions.

Most clubs do not have that clarity. Not because the people running them are not capable, but because nobody ever gave them a framework to build it from. That is the gap the Wine Club Scorecard was designed to fill.


What you actually get

The Wine Club Scorecard is a free assessment built specifically for winery owners, GMs, and wine club managers who want an honest read on how their club is performing. It covers the areas that actually drive club health: member retention, acquisition strategy, engagement, revenue per shipment, and overall club structure.


You answer a series of questions about how your club operates today, and what comes back is a genuine report with benchmarks, clear data on where you stand, and specific steps you can take to improve. Whether your club has 200 members or 2,000, the output is the same: real information you can act on.


The whole thing takes about five minutes. And the conversations it tends to start, with your team, with ownership, with whoever makes decisions about where to invest, are usually long overdue.


If you have had that nagging sense that your club is running but not quite performing, this is a good place to start. Not because it will hand you a magic fix, but because you cannot fix what you have not clearly identified. A lot of wine clubs are leaving real money and real member relationships on the table, not out of negligence, but simply because no one has stepped back to look at the full picture.


Now is a good time to look.

Free report. Benchmarked data. Clear next steps. Takes five minutes.

Take the Free Scorecard wineclubscorecard.com



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2026 Industry Update: Grape Markets, Grower Resources & What's Ahead

Event Type: Seminar

Location: Springhill Suites 900 El Camino Real Atascadero, California 93422

Date: 5/20/2026

2026 Industry Update: Grape Markets, Grower Resources & What's Ahead
Join Vineyard Team and Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance for a half-day Industry Update bringing together growers, experts, and advocates for a timely pulse check on grape markets, grower resources, and state-level developments shaping our region in 2026. This ticketed* event includes lunch and will feature: Grape Market Update & Industry Outlook – A look at current bulk wine and grape market trends, supply and demand dynamics, and what they mean for your business decisions this season. Grants & Funding Opportunities Panel – Moderated by an experienced grower, this conversation brings together funding and program specialists who work directly with agricultural grants and cost-share programs. Learn what opportunities are available, how to position your operation for success, and what makes a strong application. Policy & Advocacy Update – Michael Miiller of the California Association of Winegrape Growers shares key statewide developments and policy prioriti
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