Dear Allie
thank you for sharing your feedback — even if it’s a tough one to read, we truly appreciate the opportunity to clarify how Winedering works and hopefully clear up a misunderstanding.
Let us explain a few key points:
All wineries on Winedering join the platform voluntarily and manage their own content, availability, pricing, and booking confirmations. We don’t publish any tour unless the supplier has created and approved it. That's why we don't understand why you mention something that it's not actually true.
No tour is advertised without consent, and we never “fake” availability. In fact, our platform is designed to only show what wineries decide to offer. Most are small, family-run businesses — not open 7 days a week, and they confirm or decline each booking manually to maintain quality.
If a booking is rejected, the system immediately notifies the customer and refunds any payment. We do not — and cannot — “block” a tour behind the scenes: everything is visible and handled transparently.
We don’t use third-party resellers or “push” bookings without winery involvement. This is a core value of Winedering: the direct relationship with wineries, no middlemen.
You mentioned that wineries are “pissed off”. We actually work with over 3,000 wineries globally, and none have reported such an issue recently. If you experienced something different, we’d love to investigate — truly. Please send us the name of the winery or booking request and we’ll speak directly with them putting you in cc. we kindly ask you to contact us also at help@winedering.com so that everything could be better clarified.
We’re here to make wine travel better — for travelers and wineries. If something went wrong in your case, we would be more than happy to fix it.
Thanks again for helping us improve.
Winedering Customer Success Team