$0
By the Sip
Free clubs at many wineries give member discounts on wine and access to VIP events and tastings: Tinhorn Creek’s Crush Club
(tinhorn.com) and Desert Hills Winery’s and Salt Spring Vineyards’ Cellar
Clubs (deserthills.ca, saltspringvineyards.com) are just a few.

$3.25
By the Cellar
For just $3.25 per case per month, the innovative Vancouver Wine Vault, through its locations in Vancouver and Calgary, will pick up, database, store and insure your wine collection in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment—a personalized storage solution without the price tag of a personal wine cellar (winevault.ca).

$100 & Up
By the Case
Though regulations (on whether wine can be made at home or at a commercial facility) vary by province, you can make 30 bottles of wine from a kit for about $100 and up. U-Vin operators in B.C. such as My Wine Cellar in North Vancouver even age some kit wines in oak barrels (mwc.ca). Take a step up at Il Vino in West Van (ilvino.ca), where you can select grapes from all over the globe, or at North Vancouver’s California Cult Classics (californiacultclassics.com), which offers grapes grown in Napa’s legendary Beckstoffer vineyards.

$299
By the Row
The Adopt-a-Row program at Red Rooster Winery in Penticton allows you to “rent” 50 vines for a year. You receive the equivalent amount of wine (12 bottles) annually—not to mention the bragging rights from a sign in the vineyard designating your vines plus special tasting sessions for “adoptive parents” (redroosterwinery.com).

$975
By the Barrel (empty)
A Platinum membership at Stoney Ridge Winery in Oregon (stoneyridge
.com) gets you 24 bottles of wine per year, custom wine labels, the exclusive tastings and events you’d expect—and an empty oak barrel with your personalized, engraved nameplate on it three years after you join. Now that’s a souvenir.

$5,000-$25,000
By the Barrel (full)
Grand Cru Estates in Oregon’s Willamette Valley offered 30 founding members membership in this exclusive winemaking club for a cool five grand. Members can be as involved with winemakers Tony Rynders and Laurent Montalieu as they like in producing their own private pinot noir vintage—for a mere $20,000 a barrel beyond the membership fee (grandcru
estates.com).

$30,000 to $400,000+
By the Lot
Therapy Vineyards in Naramata is offering investments in the Naramata Estate Winery Limited Partnership to fund development of its new winery building at $30,000 a unit (therapyvin yards.com).

The Indigo on the Lake home development in Osoyoos in the South Okanagan engaged highly respected wine consultant David Scholefield to create a custom red wine blend called Genesis that will be available exclusively to Indigo’s homeowners (indigoonthelake.com).

Priceless
By the Chateau
For those think big, boutique London firm AIM Vineyards helps clients buy and manage wineries in Italy and France and then market and sell the resulting wine (aim-vineyards.com). The winemaking advice of renowned consultant Michel Rolland is part of the deal. It’s a great way to make a small fortune (assuming you started with a large one). wl