Our merch is for sale!
Grab a cute tee, tank or tattoo pack and bring home #WineRiot! Check out the Second Glass Store for more styles. We will also be selling our merch at Wine Riot 2015 in all cities.
Wine Riot 2015 tickets now on sale! Here’s the official lineup!
SPRING:
Wine Riot NYC - March 27/28th
Wine Riot Boston - April 24th/25th
Wine Riot Chicago - May 15th/16th
FALL:
Wine Riot NYC - Sept 18/19th
Wine Riot Chicago - October 16/17th
Wine Riot Boston - October 23/24th
Throw it back to the first days of Wine Riot, or just from the latest event you attended. For our #TBT contest, we’ll choose one person each week who uses the hashtag #tbt and #wineriot in their Instagram post!
Content must be relevant to Wine Riot and/or from the event itself and you have to upload a new photo with the #’s rather that adding them later.
Winners receive a branded Wine Riot tee of their choice! C'mon, we want you to share what a blast you had a Wine Riot — as you can see, we’ve been having quite a blast ourselves.
Follow us on Instagram, @secondglass. For our fall event schedule, tickets and details, visit secondglass.com/wineriot.
Thanks, New York, for another successful Wine Riot - our biggest event to date! We hope you enjoyed yourselves, tasted delicious wines, and gained some knowledge that you can share with your friends!
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NYC’s favorite wines of the night were…
90+ Cellars Proseco • Domaine Zinck Cremant d'Alsace Brut • 2012 Roscato Rosso Dolce Pavio • 2012 Roscato Bianco Dolce Italy • Fat Barrel Wine Company RCL Sparkling Steen • 2013 Dr. Loosen Riesling Kabinett “Blue Slate” • Vignoble Laculle Champagne • 2014 Freixenet Mia Rose • 2012 Milestone Wines Red Blend • 2012 Villa Wolf Riesling Dry
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Thank you, Boston, for bringing the fun to our event at Estragon with Gloria from Mia Wines. It was a night of entertainment, delicious food, excellent wines and a great crowd! We couldn’t have done it without you!
Find Mia Wines at the following retailers:
JD Variety • Donelan’s Supermarket • Brookline Liquor Mart • Athol Spirits/D & S Liquors • Big Jim’s Liquors • Tapeo Tapas Bar • The Living Room • 7 Eleven Brighton • Incbay State Foods • Fernandez Bros Liquor • Ashmont Market and Liquors • Gardner Spirits • McKinlay’s Inc. • Shovel Shop Spirits • Vineyard Wine & Cheese Shop • Kwik Stop Convenience • Chabs Daily Mart • Corner Food Mart • Park Avenue Market Ace Hardware • West Newbury Food Inc. • Vincent’s Country Store • Grove Street Market • Westminster Liquors • Ashmont Market and Liquor • Fiorentino’s Package Store • Center Package • Da’s Mart • Brookline Liquor Mart • Full Of Spirits Inc. • Hanover Wine & Spirits • EB Flatts • Tuttobene Wine & Cheese Cellar • Prezza Rest • The Liquor Barn • Richard’s Liquors • Host Hotel
Be on the lookout for Wine Riot Boston, coming October 24-25 at Park Plaza Castle! Tickets are available now, but moving fast. Get ‘em here while you can!
Riesling Riot Postponed
Due to situations out of our control we have to postpone the series of four Riesling Riot events in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. I know, it really sucks. For those of you that purchased tickets you will be getting a refund*. For those of you that planned on coming, we’re terribly sorry for any inconvenience.
As of right now, we don’t have any new dates on the calendar.
We love Riesling and we really want to showcase what Riesling has to offer all in one room, but unfortunately it has to wait.
We apologize for any inconvenience but urge you to come taste wines (including Riesling) at Wine Riot in the fall.
* since it’s a holiday weekend you may not see the refund until Wednesday, May 28. We’re making the refunds today, Friday, May 23, but you know how banks work.
Tickets are now on sale for Wine Riot Tour 2014. We’re hitting New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles TWICE this year!
We have both spring and fall events on the books bringing hundreds of wines from around the world, Crash Course seminars, wine education, our Bubbly Bar, the Wine 101 booth, and of course, our photo booth, two times.
Use promo code: 2014FTW to get an additional $5 off the already discounted tickets making them only $50. Get in there!
This “You are Totally Awesome” special discount last until January 2, 2014. We picked this date because we wanted to give you an extra day to fend off that New Years Eve hangover on January 1. You’re welcome!
Buy tickets:
April 4-5 in NYC
April 18-19 in Boston
May 2-3 in Chicago
May 9-10 in LA
Sept 19-20 in NYC
Oct 17-18 in Chicago
Oct 24-25 in Boston
Nov 14-15 in LA
Dear Washington DC,
We love you a lot, we really do. You are so enthusiastic about Wine Riot it hurts us to not have a date on the 2014 tour calendar. The truth is, we’ve been hosting Wine Riot in Washington DC for three years in a row and we just can’t make it financially viable. That means we’re back to the drawing board. There are a few factors at play, and I want to take the time to explain them.
Venue Size: We love the venue we used in 2013 but the fact of the matter is even if we sell it out, we just break even. That’s a big risk for us to take. We’re a small company, run by two entrepreneurs that started this thing out of our apartment back in 2006. The risk is big enough that it would seriously hinder my personal ability to pay rent for the year. Which totally sucks.
Marketing: Our model doesn’t work in DC. We kill it in New York, Boston, Chicago, and even LA, but our Facebook heavy marketing approach clashes with the low percentage of DC folks that are not on the service. Yeah, we could adapt, and try new approach just for DC but that takes a larger investment, and unfortunately, due to the above venue size problem, we just can’t repay the extra expense.
Wineries: Our event succeeds in cities that sales and marketing representatives for US based and international wineries live. New York and Boston are big cities but for DC, most of the reps live in New York and they need to travel to DC to pour. This is a problem because it costs them a lot more money. They’re willing to make the trip, but scheduling is often a major issue.
All in all, we have decided to pass on a Washington DC Wine Riot in 2014 and you have no idea how much that bums us out, but know that it does not mean you are out for good. Those of you that have attended are probably the most excited of all the Wine Riot attendees in the US.
We’re not giving up, we just need to figure out a different business model. We have some ideas and we’re working on it.
Keep drinking more wine and we’ll hopefully be back soon!
Sincerely,
Tyler Balliet
President, Co-Founder
Second Glass
Dear San Francisco,
We’re bummed to be passing on a Wine Riot in San Francisco for 2014. To be completely honest, it’s just not financially viable for us. While we sell 3,600 tickets to events in New York (sold out) and 2,600 tickets in Boston (sold out), we were coming in at less than 1,500 (less than 50% capacity) in San Francisco for two years in a row. We’re not a big company and we have to put our money and time where we can get it back. We haven’t given up on San Francisco but we do need a new style of event and business model to make it work. I wanted to take some time to explain the factors.
Snow Cones in a Blizzard: There are hundreds of wine events, large and small, in San Francisco and Napa is a short drive away. While we do throw a very different event from anything else in San Francisco, its hard harder to stand out from the competition.
Venue: They are tearing down our venue and making it into condos. That kind of sucks for us since there actually are not that many large-scale venues that are easily accessible by public transportation. Making it incredibly easy for people to arrive and depart without driving is a requirement for us, so we would have to find a new place to host it.
Marketing: You guys are expensive to reach. Seriously, we pay 2-3x more per impression in San Francisco than any other city. It makes sense, there are a bajillion tech startups using their backyard for testing their products and buying up online ads left and right. However, it presents a problem for our budgeting and requires us to sell a lot more tickets.
All in all, we realize that Wine Riot may not be the right fit for San Francisco. We’re back to the drawing board and looking for new ways to bring totally awesome wine education to the Bay Area. In the meantime, you should visit your friends in Boston, Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles!
Sincerely,
Tyler Balliet
President, Co-Founder
Second Glass
Tickets available at door for Wine Riot LA 11/9. Bring cash or credit card!