Services
Wineries face unique challenges. We can help. Vin offers web design and development, messaging, brand strategy, and consulting services that build robust, DTC-driven businesses.
Websites
Our handcrafted websites are attractive, functional, easy-to-update, accessible, and search engine optimized. They are seamlessly responsive for mobile and desktop devices.
Messaging & Strategy
We have been speaking the language of wine for two decades. Our copywriting, branding, naming, and consulting services capture the unique persona of your brand in words.
I like honest wines,
all of them, and always.
—M.F.K. Fisher
Questions and Answers
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What size organizations can benefit from Vin's services?
Our wine website design and communication services are suited for wineries of all shapes and sizes. We’ve worked with operations ranging from single winemaker brands, boutique wineries, and medium sized wineries to mass market producers of 100k+ case production.
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How much flexibility or customization is available in defining a project scope?
Endless. Each client is different with a completely unique set of challenges and needs. Our list of Services provides a menu of offerings that is easily customized to best meet your needs. We love the opportunity to flex to meet a client’s specific requirements through a strategically tailored process. Whether you’re in need of fresh messaging or a whole new website, we can be flexible to take on pretty much any challenge.
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Why should I invest in a custom-built, winery-specific website when so many inexpensive website templates are available?
Cheap website-generating platforms are terrific for basic blogs and simple online businesses, but their flexibility and functionality are limited. They aren’t built to grow with your winery, and they aren’t equipped to handle the complex e-commerce issues we encounter every day in the wine industry.
Our websites are custom-coded to reflect your winery’s identity, using your brand’s unique colors, typefaces, and character. This cohesion between website, packaging, and print collateral underscores the perception of quality and reinforces your customers’ understanding of your brand.
We’re here to guide you through the process of setting up clubs, mailing lists, and alcohol e-commerce. And because we’re hand-coding in the development phase, our designs are flexible and can evolve along with your business.
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Which website publishing system or CMS do you use?
WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system, running more than 455 million sites ranging in scope from enterprise to micro. Its popularity nurtures a robust ecosystem of plugins and resources to help expand and customize any website, giving us limitless flexibility in development and coding.
The rich WordPress admin interface makes it easy to edit text, swap out images, add new pages, and update menus. This lets you take ownership of your site and put it to work for your evolving needs.
Since WordPress is open-source software, it can be deployed at the web host of your choice, and the work invested in your website will not be lost if that company goes out of business.
And because it will be continually updated in the future for security and features, it is the best choice for the ongoing web presence of a business built to stick around for years to come.
Testimonials
We’re so grateful to Vin for bringing Seavey’s web presence up to high digital standards, but also for helping us achieve a polished and modern look and feel. As a second-generation family winery with deep history, it was important to us to hold onto this heritage throughout the evolution of our brand. Vin was able to honor this intention, striking the perfect balance between historical and modern. Throughout the course of the project, Vin went above and beyond to tailor the site to our preferences and needs. We’re thrilled with the outcome and excited about the places our new website will help take us!
— Dorie Seavey, Managing Director at Seavey
I can’t speak highly enough of my experience working with Vin on a significant website redesign. The design is stunning, and Vin worked incredibly quickly and efficiently to complete the project. Vin was very thorough at the start of the project, asking the right questions to make sure we were on the same page to achieve our goals with the new site. I also appreciate the prompt turnaround time, both during the design process and with follow-up items after launch. Highly, highly recommend.
— Emily Rasmussen, Brand & Communications Manager at Ram's Gate
An important measure of a marketing design process is how quickly the creative professional “gets” the message. Our experience working with Jon Krauss of Vin Agency has been a mix of surprise and delight at his insight and talent weaving the elements of our story into the fabric that is now our website. There are many voices and visuals on our end; Vin quickly distilled them down to capture the essence and spirit of Preston: accurately, succinctly and practically. Working with Vin has been a pleasure.
— Lou, Susan, Maggie, Ken, and all the Preston Farm & Winery Team
Acrobat is the second project I have been fortunate to work with Vin on. Jon and team are pros and are easy to work with. What I like best about working with Vin is that they take their time to understand your direction and over-deliver on a mutually vetted vision. Everything that Vin does is top-notch, clean, and beautiful. They understand the mood of fine wine and don’t need to be told what the industry expects. A+ stuff.
— Ryan Johnson, Marketing Director at King Estate
Working with Vin the last several years has been a fantastic experience, which is not always the case when attempting to integrating several different software platforms. Vin’s work is timely, professional and the ability to create a functional and visual appealing work is refreshing.
For a layman, Vin is a pleasure to work with because I do not need to know the technical jargon. They understand the intricacies of luxury marketing and are able to build an intuitive, refined product accordingly. Vin is a wonderful partner to work with!
— James Eyer, General Manager at Hyde de Villaine