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We need your help to make this a better web site. We are happy that you read The Wine Cellar Insider for wine tasting notes and other, exclusive, valuable source information. We will continue operating as a free site, adding new material, making technical improvements and updating content on a continuous basis. Our goal is to make this a better site for you. Of course, we’d also like you to become a member of The Wine Cellar Insider too. We need your support now. Your donation will help us be able to improve the website for you.

Also, if you have a website and you like the content we provide on our site, please remember to link our pages on your website. Linking to us is one of the best ways to thank us. It really helps and we appreciate that!

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To keep you up to date on our continuing progress since we began publishing and to explain why we are asking for donations: We are now close to celebrating our 6th year on the Internet! When The Wine Cellar Insider debuted in June 2010, we started out with about 1,800 wine tasting notes, 300 pages on various chateau, wineries and other wine related topics with perhaps 1,500 images and 100 posts.

We were also on a shared hosting environment, which for those of you that have been readers for a while now will recall, it took quite a bit of time for you gain access to the website with those slower servers. Today, that is no longer the case! As I am sure you noticed, we have just gone through an extensive redesign. We are using a state of the art design and as we are now completely responsive, our site should work perfectly on your mobile devices and or tablets.

Currently we provide over 1,000 detailed, searchable pages of exclusive content on a myriad of wine topics and issues, Bordeaux chateaux and other wineries in other regions including Chateauneuf du Pape, The Rhone Valley and California. Those pages are always being updated on a continuous basis. As of 2021, we now have more than 22,000 unique, exclusive. searchable wine tasting notes! We are also closing in on 700 posts and don’t forget, you have more than exclusive 5,000 photographic images on the site too!

By voluntarily donating, you automatically become a supporting member of The Wine Cellar Insider.

Equally as important, over the years we have steadily improved the quality and delivery of The Wine Cellar Insider. Today, we are are on our own, state of the art, dedicated 2 GB, 2 CPU Cloud Server. This helps deliver the content you seek as quickly as possible providing you with a much better user experience. To make the site faster and more informative, we are asking for your help.

If you are receiving value from us and wish to make a donation to help fund, support and improve the operation of The Wine Cellar Insider, it would be truly appreciated if you became a board member. Your support and membership will help fund ongoing technical improvements on the site, allowing us to keep increasing the content and improve our servers bringing you an even better user experience.

Please know, all membership donations are voluntary. If you wish, please consider a payment of $25 or more every now and then. Of course if that is too much money, please feel free to donate less. Thank you for your support. We hope you continue reading The Wine Cellar Insider.

If you can become an angel sponsor of The Wine Cellar Insider with a minimum donation of $100 for American readers and $125 for European readers, (Because it costs more to send a gift to Europe) we will send you a free T-Shirt as our way of thanking you for your very generous and helpful donation.

Please become a supporting member of The Wine Cellar Insider, as well as help fund the continued improvement of the website.