Questions and answers
If you have any other questions, please get in touch: guild@volcanichills.co.nz or (07) 282 2018
How do enter the Volcanic Hills Wine Lovers’ Guild?
You just need to enter your contact information and open a paypal or stripe account with your credit or debit card details within our secure site to activate your weekly, monthly or quarterly payment into The Guild Reserve. Enter The Guild online.
How much does it cost to be a member?
No membership fees, you just pay $25/week straight into your Guild membership account. Your account balance including all payments and purchases will be available online. Build your balance and then cash it in when you want on the Volcanic Hills wine you want, at insider prices.
ALL the money you pay into The Reserve is yours to spend – we don’t take a dime. Your commitment simply gives us a mandate to go and source the best grapes for you, from the best growing regions in New Zealand, and turn them into the great wine you have told us you want to drink.
What prices are available?
What are the other benefits of entering in the Wine Lovers’ Guild? How does my money help?
Your commitment will help propagate our next vintage. It gives us a mandate to go and source the best grapes, from the best growing regions in New Zealand, and turn them into the great wine you have told us you want to drink by your purchases and feedback.
You and other like-minded members of The Guild, have a direct line to the Winemakers and other Guild members.
Of course there is an alternative… you could buy mass-produced wine from profit-driven supermarkets alongside their frozen TV dinners and luncheon sausage – but you wouldn’t want that would you?
I live outside New Zealand – can I enter the Volcanic Hills Wine Lovers’ Guild?
Why do I need to create a Stripe or PayPal account when signing up to become a Guild member?
Creating a Stripe or PayPal account now will mean that next time you shop online on one of the thousands of other online stores you can do so just an email address and password, you won’t need to type in your card details every time you pay.
For more information about Stripe visit the Stripe Website or PayPal please visit the PayPal website
How is the Volcanic Hills Wine Lovers’ Guild regulated?
In the unlikely event that Volcanic Hills Winery got into financial trouble, the Guild will be kept ‘safe’.
Your pre-payments are transferred to the Volcanic Hills Wine Lovers’ Guild Limited bank account on a weekly basis are only released to Volcanic Hills Winery when you have placed an order within the Guild – only at that time will payment from your account be released in exchange for the wine ordered.