Weekly Member Memo

January 9, 2024

31st Annual Winter WINEland

Sales ended yesterday - we sold 1680 tickets.

Last year, we sold 1514 tickets.

Supply pick-up WEDNESDAY  9:00-3:00

1437 Grove Street, Healdsburg (our office)

RSVP lists will be emailed to you Wed. or Thurs.

Questions Debbie@wineroad.com

Eventbrite removed the field on the customer's PDF ticket where it says "Your Check-In Winery is XYZ Winery".   Which created a huge problem for us!  Attendees need to see that info.  Eventbrite made this change without notifying us, at which point we had sold 1000+ tickets. They have not helped in any way, to solve this problem.

Customers need to see where they are checking in.

Our solution: Debbie sent all ticket buyers a note, via Eventbrite, saying to disregard their original ticket and she then re-created a NEW ticket for every buyer with all of the pertinent information and resent it. Therefore it may take her an extra day to get all of YOU your completed, RSVP lists. But they will be to you by Thursday (possibly Wed afternoon).

We are still working on the breakdown to compare this year to last year. Hopefully we will have that done to share tomorrow. This has been a very complicated issue to resolve with Eventbrite.

Our 47th Annual Barrel Tasting Weekend March 2-3, 2024     11:00-4:00 both days

We are missing wine info from 22 wineries.

We are desperate to wrap up the program.

Log onto your Eventbrite account, look for "tickets" and fill in your wines ASAP.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 25th (24th for Insiders).  

Goal for this event is to sell 2000 tickets.

Early Bird Weekend Tickets will be available Jan. 25-30 for $85. Then the price goes to $95 for the weekend. Sales will end Feb. 26th

Questions - Debbie@wineroad.com

WHOO HOO!!

The Wine Road Podcast is nominated in the 15th Annual The Taste Awards Viewers Choice Category Voting for BOTH Best Food or Drink Podcast and Best Regional Podcast. But to secure the win(s), we need your votes.

We were also nominated in the Best Travel Program category, which they select (not listener voted).

Click the link and vote for us! Voting ends Feb 17th.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TasteAwards2024ViewersChoice

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Feb. 10th, 11:00-4:00

Wine Love Wine Trail

Tickets are on sale now. We just posted the competed program online, showing the wines and other details from wineries.  We've sold 10 tickets thus far and would love to get to 200.

Thank you to our partners along the Wine Road for their financial support.