Frequently Asked Questions

Go to winemakermag.com/my-account, or click the login link in the upper right corner of the homepage.

To find out how many months you have left on your WineMaker+ Membership, or to manage your information, log into the website and go to winemakermag.com/my-account/members-area.

1. Go to winemakermag.com/login (If the link does not work, try manually typing in the address.)

2. Click on the “Lost Password?” link 

3. Enter your email Please be sure to use the exact email used to create your account (check the confirmation email from us: that’s the email your account is under).

4. Click “Get New Password”

5. Follow the instructions in the email

6. If you don’t see an email within 5 minutes, please check your spam folder

There are different ways to navigate through the website easily:

1. 1. Use the navigation menu at the top of the website to select a department and start browsing content
   2. Hover your mouse over one of the main navigation items to open a dropdown menu and select a more specific section
   3. If you know exactly what you are looking for, type a query into the search bar at the top of the page for a list of specific results
   4. Whether on a content page or search results page, use the filter checkboxes to the left to narrow down the results

Click the Issues link in the upper right navigation bar on the website. This takes you to our digital issue library.

From there, scroll through the library and click the cover of the issue you want to read. For faster scrolling, click the Jump To link to open the dropdown menu and select the specific year you want to explore.

Clicking an issue cover takes you to that issue’s dedicated page. To read the issue in PDF format, click the “View Digital Replica” link button in the left column under the cover. This opens the flipbook for that issue.

Note you can also read HTML versions of each article, which are listed on the issue’s dedicated page.

Yes! You can download a PDF for any of the recent magazines that offer the flipbook format. Here’s how:

1. Click the Issues link in the top right navigation bar on the website. This will take you to our Magazine Issue Library page. All issues are organized by year.
2. Click on the cover for the issue you are interested in viewing.
3. Click on the “View Digital Replica” link button in the left column under the cover image. This will pull up the flipbook for that issue.
4. Once in the flipbook, click on the Download PDF icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a page with the corner tucked.

The PDF will download to your computer. You can then save this PDF to your computer, tablet or phone for future offline reading. You can also print out specific pages of the PDF issue if you want a hard copy.

The decision to end printing our magazine starting with the 2025 issues was not made lightly. All of us at WineMaker love print magazines with half our staff working on WineMaker print publications for over 25 years. But over the last several months of 2024 it has become clear the economics of continuing to print WineMaker magazine are simply not sustainable. Our postage and paper costs almost doubled in the last five years and print industry experts say this trend will only continue. The escalating costs come as print subscription revenue is in decline, the newsstand industry for a publication like WineMaker has essentially collapsed, and print-based advertising revenue has dramatically eroded. So we are faced with decreased print revenues and increased production and delivery costs all at once. We already raised our print subscription prices to the limit of what we feel home winemakers will spend annually so that was not an option to bring in more money.

We’ve always said we are in the winemaking content business and not the paper and ink business. And if we continued to print our magazines in the face of collapsing print revenues and spiking print-related costs, it puts WineMaker’s future overall as a business in jeopardy. As a result, we opted instead to make the hard decision to end our print format so we can continue to serve the home winemaking community for years to come with more content and events. To ignore the reality of the grim print financial landscape WineMaker faces would have been irresponsible.

If you had an active WineMaker print subscription at the end of 2024, you’ll be given full credit for all the remaining print issues owed to you in your account with an equal amount of future time as a WineMaker+ member right up until what would have been your print expire date. And you’ll continue to be able to read new issues of WineMaker published in our bi-monthly schedule in the magazine layout of our new fully linked flipbook (that you can also download as a PDF for offline reading) or as individual webpage articles and recipes. Plus online access to 30 years of winemaking content.

Thank you for your continued support as we look to keep helping you craft your own great wine.

All active WineMaker print subscribers with issues still remaining to be served in 2025 have been already set up with a WineMaker+ membership for the remainder of your term with new issues available every other month in two different digital formats in addition to the other membership benefits. How you claim your new WineMaker+ membership depends on if you already have an existing online account at winemakermag.com.

A. If you already have a winemakermag.com account (by ordering your print subscription through our website) then just log into your account and you’ll see you’ve already been switched over to a WineMaker+ membership for the remainder of your term.

B. If you do not already have an existing online account at winemakermag.com you need to claim your new WineMaker+ membership good for the remainder of your print subscription term. To set up your online account with your email and a password to log in for your special access. Here’s how you do it.

1. Go to https://winemakermag.com/account-lookup
2. You will see two boxes to pull up your new paid WineMaker+ membership.
3. In the Account Number box, enter the number provided in the mailed letter sent to you in December
4. In the Zip Code box, enter your main zip code, but without the “plus four”. If you have a Canadian postal code please include any space as normal.
5. Follow the remaining prompts including setting up your log in password.
6. Questions? Email us at: wm@winemakermag.com

We hate to see you go! Have you explored the 1000s of articles, troubleshooting, and technique projects?

If you’d like to cancel, please go to your account page. Then, click on the “Subscriptions” link and press the cancel button.

If you are on an auto-renew plan, you will still have access to your membership for the remainder of your term. You will not be renewed and will lose access the day your account lapses.

For former print subscribers who are NOT on auto-renew: please note if you cancel online, you will lose access immediately.  You can tell that you are NOT on auto-renew if there is no date listed under “Next Bill On” or “Next Payment” columns on your account page.