Scout & Cellar, a new direct sales company, offers clean-crafted wines. Why should you only drink clean-crafted wines? Keep reading.
Have you ever noticed wine bottles do not contain ingredient labels? Well, curious minds.... it's because the FDA, which requires food and non-alcoholic beverages to have nutritional labels does not regulate alcoholic beverages. The TTB regulates alcohol which comes with it's own bag of regulating worms, but nutritional labeling is not one of them. Many people are consuming way more than they bargained for. Things like artificial preservatives, excessive amounts of added sugar, dyes, animal byproducts and sulfur are added to stabilize big production wines. They can also use egg whites, isinglass - are you ready for this one - dried bladders of fish to clarify - yuk! We can just stop right there since I am sure you get the picture.
Clean-crafted wines offered by Scout & Cellar are independently lab-tested to ensure not of the above mentioned and a plethora of other additives are included in the wine production process. Scout & Cellar wines are carefully selected by a level 3 sommelier (wine expert) to revolve around our quest for healthy lifestyles without all those no-no's we have come to know. Think of Scout & Cellar doing for wine selection what whole foods has done for food shopping. Why does this matter you might ask, drinking clean means you are consuming WAY less calories, WAY less sugars (as much as a donut in some cases), you are likely not getting typical wine headaches and you are enjoying wine the way nature intended not the cocktailing mish-mash of today's wine world.
Scout & Cellar Wine, named for the sourcing of wines from all over the world, is a consumable product that rarely anyone ever says no to. Wine is synonymous with girls night out, decadent dinners, date night, movie night on the couch, sunbathing by the pool - you get the point. The company is just coming upon its one year anniversary and is growing by leaps and bounds with over $8M in sales this year. Scout & Cellar currently has about about 2500 consultants in the United States which is relatively low in the direct selling world.
The wine industry hit $60 Billion last year and only 1.5% of that was done online. Think of this as the days when people were darn sure they would never buy cosmetics online. Oh well, that ideology was a BIG bust! Wine is now poised for an online sales explosion as the laws for intrastate shipping are loosening up each and every day. There are only a handful of states (9) that do not accept wine to be shipped in from another state. That said, it doesn't preclude Scout & Cellar from having consultants in those states - they can ship anywhere else they have customers. If you are looking for some good CLEAN fun, this is it!
