Reader
A pass to read along.
Access to wine notes and ratings, reviews, and the journal: the full archive of every post, event, and bottle written up here.
Subscription fee. Does not add to balance.
Membership
Membership.
Three tiers, one personal balance, and the occasional lecture. What each one is, and why it is here at all.
At a glance
What you can do
A working notebook.
Contributor membership is a set of real tools. What follows are screenshots of the actual thing, not mockups.
Keep your cellar
Every bottle you own, with price, location, score, and value.
Write your wine notes
Note and score a wine; it saves as you type.
Snap a label
Photograph a bottle and let the assistant find the wine.
Plan a wine run
Batch an order, watch the discount, track what is picked up.
No account needed
Most of this is free.
Every post, wine, producer, and event write-up is open to read, with no account and no payment, and the standout wines stay open in full. A free account adds your profile, event invitations, and reminders. Members get the full event scoring and the complete wine notes on top, keep a notebook of their own, and keep this place independent.
Independent
Independent, and meant to stay that way.
I have no affiliation with any producer or importer. I take no commission on a bottle you buy on a recommendation, there is no advertising on this site, and there never will be. I write as someone who buys his own wine and answers to no one in the trade.
That independence is the whole point, and it runs on the readers and listeners who choose to support it directly. If the writing here is worth something to you, a membership is what keeps it going.
Boris
The tiers in full
Contributor
Your own working notebook.
Everything in Reader, plus a private cellar for the bottles you keep, tools for your own wine notes, and the organisational kit for running your own gatherings on the platform.
See what's insideSubscription fee. Does not add to balance.
Patron
Keep it independent.
Everything in Contributor, plus credit on a personal balance you can spend on paid services available on the platform. Priority invitations to closed educational community meetings, when they happen. Mostly, this is the tier that keeps the site running and unbeholden.
Pick the level that fits; the perks are the same at each.
The wallet
Balance
Patron subscriptions and one-time top-ups feed a personal balance you can spend on paid services on the platform. The rules are quiet but firm.
- Minimum top-up
- 100 UAH
- Expiry
- Balance does not expire
- Withdrawals
- Not available; transfers only in exceptional cases
- Charges
- Deducted when you use a paid service
- Cancellation, more than 24 h before
- Balance unchanged
- Cancellation, less than 24 h before
- Balance is charged
No subscription needed
One-time top-ups
Not subscribed but want to top up your balance once, or simply support the project? One-time top-ups follow the same minimum and the same rules, with no recurring commitment.
Standalone educational content
Lectures
Occasional lectures are priced separately. The fee can be drawn from your balance, with details published in each announcement.
Questions about a tier or your balance? Write to boris@barberry.io. The legal terms that govern subscriptions and the balance live in the public offer.