Loyalty Points.

The purpose of providing Loyalty Points is to reward you for making regular purchases. Every time you purchase wine from the Vinoté Wine Cellar Club, you earn Loyalty Points. You use these to claim free wine. The process is simple and highly rewarding.
The more regularly you buy, the more you allow your UMS to accumulate and the more wine you buy, the greater the proportion of your purchase goes towards Loyalty Points. The downside of this Loyalty arrangement is that if you do not buy regularly your accumulated UMS will gradually decline.

All wines offered by the Club carries a UMS

Each purchase accumulates UMS values to your account.

Introducing friends to the Vinoté Wine Club accrues extra UMS for you.

The good news - For every 100 UMS over 2000 Points you will be allocated 15 Loyalty Points.

Loyalty Points can be exchanged for free wine up to the same UMS value.

Loyalty Points used up in exchange for free wine will depreciate your total accumulated UMS at the rate of 100 UMS for every 15 Loyalty Points.

New Loyalty Points are not valid until 15 days after issue.

Loyalty claims for free wine under 12 bottles, when not associated with another purchase order, or when the wine is to be sent off shore will incur freight charges.

Free wine, in exchange for Loyalty Points, can be claimed from the list of wines available to club members or special requests can be placed for wines, which the club may be able to secure on your behalf

You can use your Loyalty Points in exchange for other Vinoté products

You will be regularly informed as to the status of your Loyalty Points

The bad news - If no subsequent purchase is made within 100 days of your last purchase, your total accumulation of UMS will begin to depreciate at the rate of 0.5% a day.

A purchase at any time will hold off the depreciation for the following 100 days.

Loyalty Points are not transferable. To maintain consistency with the accumulation of Loyalty Points, you must use the same name and email with each order you place.

All claims or discussions regarding Loyalty Points should be emailed to loyalty@vinote.com

The following chart and examples are based on a common UMS value of 75 on all wines. It shows the value of accumulating your UMS and the exponential growth in Loyalty Points.

The more regularly you buy, the more you allow your UMS to accumulate and the more wine you buy, the greater the proportion of your purchase goes towards Loyalty Points.

Some examples.

Mr and Mrs A join the club and buy a case in August, another in October and then order 3 cases for Christmas. They ask that delivery is delayed until their Loyalty Points become valid and they receive 6 free bottles for Christmas.

Mr and Mrs B are more extravagant buyers. They buy two cases in August, two in October and 4 for Christmas. They carry on holding their Loyalty Points buying two more cases in February and then four cases in March for a birthday party. They also ask that delivery is held up until their Loyalty Points are valid. The birthday shipment will now include 22 free bottles.

Some other ways to build up your Loyalty Points.

Each friend you introduce to the Vinoté Wine Cellar Club, who makes a purchase and gives us your name and email during the purchase procedure, will earn you an extra 100 UMS. This is to encourage you to tell your friends about the Club. You can introduce as many purchasing friends as you wish.

Created by Uncork (producers of the Uncorked Cellar), UMS is a calculated figure between 0 and 100 for each vintage of a wine. Factors which are considered in the merit values for a wine include a rating of this vintage of this wine as given by the winemaker (or similar wines by other winemakers in the region), vintage consistency, actual region, the general regard for this wine or winery, cost of the wine etc. In general, ratings of 50 or above represent good wines, 70 or above represent excellent wines, while 90 or above indicate world class wines. Very few vintages of wines achieve a 100 rating - This indicates that the winemaker has no higher aspirations for this wine, and that the wine itself is truly world class.

As with all scoring systems, the merit score suffers from some subjective opinion, although a lot less than most. There is no obligation for you to use this score as your measure of the quality or value of the wine, however it is used as an international method of comparison within the Vinoté Wine Club.

Where a wine offered by the Club has not been allocated a UMS by Uncork, Vinoté will apply their own UMS using a similar algorithm as applied by Uncork. All UMS displayed within Club correspondence will apply even when these may differ from scores published elsewhere.

From time to time Vinoté customers find themselves with Loyalty Points which they wish to use, but circumstances make the shipment of wine too costly. The following list shows the UMS value of Vinoté products, which can be claimed in exchange for Loyalty Points.

If you wish to avail yourself of any of these products in exchange for Loyalty Points, please email loyalty@vinote.com