Wine Scholar Guild Community
Wine Scholar Guild is for the wine obsessed. Deepen your wine knowledge with a curious global network.
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- Size
- 6,951 membersBigger than 91% of the hobbies & crafts communities indexed here.
- Platform
- Circle
- Category
- Hobbies & Crafts
- Last verified
- 15 October 2026
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About Wine Scholar Guild Community
Wine Scholar Guild is for the wine obsessed. Deepen your wine knowledge with a curious global network.
Why you should join: Exclusive video content, regional mini-series and fellow wine lovers who bring wine education to life. Membership is $139 a year.
Tiers and products
Annual membership
From $139 / yearly
Notes
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The one-liner
An annual wine education community built around expert video and one new region a month.
What they actually sell
Wine Scholar Guild Community is run by Julien Camus. The headline pitch reads: "A community for the wine obsessed." The public offer sits at $139 a year. Anyone copying this should notice that the sale rests on one clear outcome rather than a long feature list.
Who pays and why
Wine lovers who want to go deeper than tasting notes. The pull is learning from leading experts alongside fellow wine geeks. They pay for regional mini-series, webinars, a monthly tasting club and a producer guide featuring 3,500+ producers. The emotional pull is being around people chasing the same thing, which matters as much as any single lesson. Wine Scholar Guild Community gives them one place to bring that problem every week.
Where the members come from
Julien Camus's name is on the Circle page, so members most likely arrive through Julien Camus's existing work and audience rather than cold traffic. The community reads as the home base for people already following that work. Julien Camus stays the visible face of the brand on the page.
What's holding it back
The annual price asks for commitment up front, so the monthly region drop has to land every time.
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Release one new region a month, so members always have a reason to log in.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes for any connoisseur hobby, like coffee or whisky. Weak for casual interests.
Written 15 October 2026
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