The facts
Researched by us, free, and identical on every tier — a visitor gets the same answers whether or not a winery has ever paid us. We publish what we can confirm and we are still working through the region, so some of these are thin today. Nothing in this group will ever cost anything.
| Included | ListedFree | ClaimedFree | FeaturedPaid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your winery listing | |||
| Name, town and sub-appellation | included | included | included |
| Address and map pin | included | included | included |
| Phone, email and website | included | included | included |
| Opening hoursWhere we have been able to confirm them | included | included | included |
| Tasting fee, and whether you need to bookWhere we have been able to confirm it | included | included | included |
| Patio, restaurant, tours, dogs, accessibilityThe things that decide whether somebody comes. Being added through the region now, and never behind a paywall | included | included | included |
| Which varietals you pour | included | included | included |
| Every medal you have won, in fullFrom published competition results. The whole list, on every profile | included | included | included |
| Upcoming events at the winery | included | included | included |
| Directions and call buttons on your profileYour address and number are free facts — a button just makes them work with a thumb | included | included | included |
| Found by people filtering for what you havePatio, dogs, live music, walk-in, restaurant — on the map and in the list, and they combine | included | included | included |
| A “Wine club” tag, if you run oneSays you have one, and can be filtered for. The link to it is a featured button | included | included | included |
| Every event you run | |||
| A page of its own, at its own addressNot a row on a calendar — a page that can be linked, shared and found on its own | included | included | included |
| Date, start and end time, and the price as you state it | included | included | included |
| Your address, directions and phone on every event | included | included | included |
| Google Event markup, so it can show as a rich resultThe date-and-venue block in a search result rather than a plain blue link. No winery site in the region publishes this | included | included | included |
| On the calendar, and in every filter that fitsEvents today, events in the next 30 days, and the facility filters your winery already matches | included | included | included |
| Linked from your other events, and from what else is on that dayEvery event page carries the rest of your programme and the rest of Niagara that day | included | included | included |
Claimed
Free. It does not add information — it adds who stands behind it, which is the part a reader cannot check for themselves.
| Feature | ListedFree | ClaimedFree | FeaturedPaid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your winery listing | |||
| “Verified by the winery”, with the dateOur research says we think this is right. This says you told us | not included | included | included |
| Correct anything, yourself, the same day | not included | included | included |
| Tell us before hours or fees change | not included | included | included |
| Every event you run | |||
| Send us your events directlyRather than waiting for us to find them. The fastest way onto the calendar, and the only way if you do not publish a dated listing anywhere | not included | included | included |
| Correct or cancel an event the same dayA cancelled event that stays up is worse for you than never being listed | not included | included | included |
Featured
Position, presentation and somewhere to send people. It buys no facts — see below.
| Feature | ListedFree | ClaimedFree | FeaturedPaid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your winery listing | |||
| Up to four photographs | not included | not included | included |
| Your medal count in the header12 gold · 9 silver · 4 bronze, added up and put at the top instead of listed lower down | not included | not included | included |
| “Most awarded for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir”Worked out from your own results. A claim you never had to make about yourself | not included | not included | included |
| Sixty words in your own voice | not included | not included | included |
| A booking button that goes where you wantYour ticketing, your wine club, your table reservations — not your homepage. The one link we count | not included | not included | included |
| Pinned above the list in your sub-region | not included | not included | included |
| Pinned at the top of filtered results tooSomebody filtering for a patio with live music sees you first among the wineries that have both. Not in the A–Z view, where the alphabet is the whole promise | not included | not included | included |
| Monthly report: how many saw it, how many clicked | not included | not included | included |
| Labelled Featured, wherever it appears | not included | not included | included |
| Every event you run | |||
| Pinned to the top of its day on the calendarA separate placement from the profile feature, bought per campaign — ask us | not included | not included | included |
| A photograph on the event page, and a thumbnail in the calendar | not included | not included | included |
| Sixty words about the event, in your own voice | not included | not included | included |
| A booking button straight to the checkout for that eventNot your homepage. The moment somebody has decided is the moment to hand them the till | not included | not included | included |
| Considered for the newsletter pickConsidered, not guaranteed. The pick is chosen on what is worth going to, or the newsletter stops being read | not included | not included | included |
| Labelled Sponsored on the event itself | not included | not included | included |
Why the useful stuff is free
Because we would rather the hours be right. Nobody drives out here on the strength of a directory entry that says a winery exists — they drive out because they know it is open at four on a Sunday, what a tasting costs, and whether the dog can come. Putting any of that behind a fee would make the page wrong for everybody in order to protect it.
Claiming is free for the same reason, and it adds no information at all. What it adds is your name against ours: our research says we believe this is right, a verified listing says you told us.
What featuring cannot buy
Facts. A featured winery’s hours are the same hours, its medals the same medals — the full list is on every profile, free — and its events are listed on the same terms as everybody else’s. What featuring buys is the counting, the position and somewhere to send people: your medals added up at the top instead of listed lower down, photographs, your own words, and a button that goes to your booking page rather than your homepage.
That rule is not modesty. It is the only reason being in this directory is worth anything.
Something wrong on your page?
Tell us and we will fix it today, claimed or not. We check every listing against the winery’s own website and we still get things wrong — wineries move, rename and change their hours faster than any directory keeps up.
Or find your winery in the directory and see what we have on you.