Wine Lovers Team

Wine Lovers Travel Team

Gail Sherman

CEO of Wine Lovers Travel

Gail is the founder and CEO of Wine Lovers Travel, driven by her love for wine and travel, which inspired her to create a business centered on unforgettable travel experiences. With a passion for uncovering hidden gems around the world and savoring exceptional wines, Gail decided to merge her two greatest passions and share them with fellow enthusiasts like you. Her belief that travel should offer an immersive, one-of-a-kind experience serves as the guiding principle behind every meticulously planned itinerary, ensuring that each trip is more than just a vacation—it’s an unforgettable journey.

Gail’s passion for both the wine and travel industries has enabled her to forge meaningful and long-lasting connections with some of the industry’s top winemakers, sommeliers, hotel owners and insiders in both the US and abroad. Through these connections, she stays ahead of the curve, offering her travelers exclusive access to unique experiences. Her favorite wine, Chateauneuf du Pape, holds a special place in her heart, especially when Mourvèdre is the predominant grape. Its earthiness evokes memories of one of the most enchanting places in France—a fitting sentiment for Gail, who proudly declares herself a Francophile.

Gail Sherman - Founder of Wine Lovers Travel
Lindsey Sullivan

Lindsey Sullivan

Reservation Specialist

Lindsey Sullivan, the Reservation Specialist at Wine Lovers Travel, is here to answer all your questions and help you with your bookings and travel plans! She has been working in travel for almost 3 years now and she loves it. Before that, she used to work as a camera assistant while living in Los Angeles. She now lives in Atlanta and enjoys working from home while taking care of her son. Her favorite place to travel to is the mountains. She loves how peaceful it is and she enjoys looking at beautiful scenery. Her favorite type of wine is Bordeaux because she’s fancy like that.

Stefanie Colburn

Marketing Manager

Stefanie Colburn, is the Marketing Manager at Wine Lovers Travel. Stefanie oversees our bi-weekly newsletters, manages partnerships and collaborations, and spearheads our marketing endeavors. Her favorite wine is a Primitivo from Puglia. She holds this varietal close to her heart as it’s where she tied the knot. One of her favorite travel memories includes exploring the enchanting beaches and restaurants of Ibiza with friends.

Stefanie Colburn
Christopher Carbaugh

Christopher Carbaugh - Hoot Host

Website Hosting and Maintenance

Christopher Carbaugh is the founder of Hoot Host, who manages the online presence of Wine Lovers Travel. Christopher, Amy, and the team at Hoot Host have helped Wine Lovers Travel build our beautiful website and assist in marketing efforts too. Hoot Host supports several wineries in South America and Europe, so being part of the Wine Lovers Travel team was an obvious fit. Wine and travel are two of Christopher’s favorite aspects of life. Based in Monterey California, Christopher spends the weekends enjoying the amazing wineries of Central and Northern California. Recently he has been savoring Syrah more than his other favorites. He is also an avid international traveler to popular wine destinations like New Zealand, Australia, Chile, and beyond!

Amy Hang

Website Maintenance

Amy Hang is the lead website developer of Hoot Host. Along with Christopher and the team at Hoot Host, she helps with the Wine Lovers Travel website. She loves learning about the local culture when she visits somewhere for the first time. One of her favorite experiences with wine and travel is wine tasting through the many wine farms in South Africa. Her go-to wine is anything sparkling and rosé!

Amy Hang

Wine Lovers Travel at ZinEx

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Welcome to Wine Lovers Travel!

We extend a heartfelt thank you to all our friends from ZinEX for stopping by. Your passion for fine wines inspires us daily.

We invite you to explore our Trips page, where you’ll find an array of unforgettable wine journeys tailored to delight every palate. Discover the perfect getaway where each sip promises a story and every destination a memory.

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Travel FAQs

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Travel Requirements

Travel Requirements

We highly recommend our affiliate Sherpa for finding the most up-to-date travel requirements for your trip.

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Insurance Quote

Insurance Quote

Wine Lovers Travel’s preferred travel/trip insurance company is Allianz. With over 35 years experience providing travel insurance, Allianz is also the preferred provider when you purchase flight insurance from most airlines and is highly rated by AM Best, the rating service for insurance products.

You can use the form below to get your personal quote and then purchase directly from Allianz using their safe, secure payment processing. For any questions, you can reach out to us at Wine Lovers Travel.


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Think Outside the Bottle!

Trade Experiences

Want your wine club members to get to know your brand even better?

Or maybe you are focused on bringing in new wine club members! You can achieve both by hosting a personalized tour of your favorite wine regions! What makes us different from most travel companies is that every trip is customized to your winery—no two are alike and all reflect the culture that makes your winery special to your clients and keeps them purchasing your wines.

What is included:

  • Custom itinerary to the destination of your choice.
  • Free travel for you and a companion (excluding international air).
  • Complete custom marketing support
  • Digital and print-ready flyers for you to use for broadcast emails, your website, in your tasting room, and to insert in your club shipments.
  • A dedicated page on the Wine Lovers Travel website.
  • Promotion via Wine Lovers Travel marketing, including twice-monthly emails to our mailing list of wine-loving travelers and our active social media to supplement your marketing.
  • We are also open to participating in your events,such as pick-up/release parties, dinners, etc. to promote your trip.
  • Management of all travel operations, including booking, payments, travel insurance, and air.

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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Wine Lovers Travel, 5021 Verdugo Way, Ste. 105-442 Camarillo, CA, 93012.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: California, United States
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to Wine Lovers Travel, accessible from https://wineloverstravel.com/
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Free Privacy Policy website article.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

  • Necessary / Essential CookiesType: Session CookiesAdministered by: UsPurpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance CookiesType: Persistent CookiesAdministered by: UsPurpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
  • Functionality CookiesType: Persistent CookiesAdministered by: UsPurpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

  • By email: info@wineloverstravel.com