The Email Playbook That Built the Mavens Empire

💣 Knowledge Bombs

Five phases, borrowed from winemaking: plant and harvest your list, sort and crush with segmentation, ferment with automation, clarify with planning, and age loyalty in the club. The framework behind the free Playbook.

What if I told you the same strategy we’ve used to help wineries generate 6- and 7-figure sales… was inspired by the winemaking process?

🍇 That’s exactly how the Winery Email Marketing Playbook was born.

It’s a 5-part framework that maps email marketing to the winemaking journey, from planting the first seed (your list) to bottling up loyalty (your wine club).

It’s simple. It’s strategic. And it’s free to download.

📖 What’s Inside the Playbook?

This isn’t a checklist or a sales pitch. It’s the strategy we teach inside PRESS SEND and use with our agency clients to grow real revenue.

  1. Planting & Harvest
    Grow your list with purpose and clear value. No “join our newsletter” nonsense.
  2. Sorting & Crushing
    Segment based on behavior, interest, or purchase history to send emails that actually resonate.
  3. Fermentation
    Set up automated flows (like welcome emails, reorder prompts, and birthday offers) that sell while you sleep.
  4. Clarification
    Plan your campaigns with clarity. No more last-minute scrambles or random sends.
  5. Aging & Bottling
    Refine your wine club emails to create connection, retain members, and boost lifetime value.

Want the full story of how each winemaking stage maps to your email program? We poured the whole analogy out here.

💛 Why We’re Giving It Away

This playbook is part of our Hudson Month fundraiser, an annual Email Mavens tradition in honor of my daughter, Hudson. She would’ve turned 13 this year.

You can download the Playbook free, no strings attached.

But if you’d like to support our cause, there’s an option to donate or grab our $13 mini-course on the thank-you page. 100% of proceeds go to the Forget-Me-Not Foundation.

📥 Ready to Dive In?

👉 Download the Winery Email Marketing Playbook here

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Erica Walter, Founder + CEO at Email Mavens

Erica Walter · Founder + CEO, Email Mavens

Erica has spent nearly two decades in winery email marketing and has opinions about subject lines. She teaches wineries to send marketing emails that sell (that don't suck).

Reading is a great start. Watching Erica build the systems is even better. The masterclass is free.

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