The future is taste and judgement.

A year ago, I announced that I had gotten a California liquor license! Why? So @Sommjoshua could work with wineries to buy wine directly and bypass much of the middleman fuss and markup. We had almost 50 Founding members join us with the goal of making sure that winemaking wasn’t lost in this age of ever-marching technological process. Our Founding Members buy wine together. We travel the world to have dinners together. We sell wine to each other. Always at cost, never with a markup and usually with a discount that can be as high as 30-40% on even the most exclusive wines. We also wanted to become a safe harbor for multi-generational winemakers as they transition to the next generation. As a result we are forging lifelong relationships with the most incredible wineries in the world. Perhaps, over time, if they decide it’s time for succession planning they will bring us in as partners versus sell to a large corporation. We are a group of humans who want to protect their craftsmanship and celebrate both the beauty of their product but also the beauty of their locations and the wineries themselves. Today, we're launching Drink With Me for non Founding Members. You can now get the majority (but not all) of the benefits of our private wine collective that our Founding Members enjoy. While our founding membership costs were a bit expensive, you can get most everything we do, as a non Founding Member, for $5k/yr. If you want to learn more, you can do so here: drinkwithme.com PS, there are a few Founding Memberships which we left open for emerging members but you will need a nomination from one of the existing FMs. They will let you know if they are one but here are a few that happen to be on X: @VinnyLingham @Mister_Keating @skydayton @Andrew_Robl @KristinaHolst @sundeep @BrianYutko @underj_me @JasonKoon @phil_hellmuth

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