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Naked Behind the Scenes

100,000 Angels in the USA!

WOOHOO! There are now 100,000 Angels in the USA! You can now connect to 100k other wine drinkers, millions of reviews and a whole army of amazing winemakers who are making wine just for you. Now that we have 100,000 Angels, we can fund dozens and dozens of exciting new wines made just for you. The […]

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Naked Behind the Scenes

We made 3 promises to our customers

Last July, we asked our Angel customers what they wanted us to focus on this year. And then we promised to do those things. The three winners were: More killer wines under $10 Angel price More hidden gems that you wouldn’t discover without our help Updates when your favorite wines are back in stock, running out […]

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Behind the Wine

How much money do wineries make?

Our friendly neighborhood banker has just written about exactly how little profit wineries make. Readers recently asked how much money winemakers earn, and I alluded to the fact that independent winemakers don’t make very much money at all. There’s a lot of bravado in wine country as displayed in the youtube video he made — people aren’t […]

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Naked Truth

How much money do winemakers make?

The short answer to this question is that independent winemakers struggle to make any money at all, and salaried head winemakers in California tend to make between $80k-100k a year with other key winemaking positions like cellar hands (who do a lot of the actual work) earning $30-40k. Wine Business Monthly puts out surveys to collect all this […]