Local Food And Wine

What Local Food And Wine does

Local Food And Wine is a privately operated food and wine media platform founded and edited by Paige Donner, with content roots dating to a 2009 blog launch focused on local foods and regional wines, particularly French wine regions such as Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne. The platform is based in Paris, France, and operates as a sole proprietorship or micro-entity with 1-10 employees, publishing across a WordPress blog, the Local GOODfood+wine podcast (69+ episodes since 2015), a YouTube channel (Local Food And Wine TV), and multiple social media profiles. Coverage extends globally to wine regions in California (Napa, Mendocino), Argentina, New Zealand, Canada (British Columbia, Niagara), and the Pacific Northwest, with an editorial emphasis on organic, biodynamic, and sustainable producers.

The business generates revenue primarily through a low-priced wine tips subscription service called Chérie du Vin, priced at $5 or €5 for six months of monthly email-delivered wine tips, food pairings, and new release recommendations. Secondary revenue streams include a Gourmet Goodie Box curated merchandise line, branded merchandise sales through an on-site shop, the Le CBD Café Cookbook publication, and wine consulting and speaking services offered by the founder. Distribution relies on organic content marketing across owned and third-party platforms with no disclosed paid acquisition, no advertising network disclosures, and no institutional funding history. Customer concentration is effectively a long-tail consumer base built around a 13.6K email subscriber list, with no enterprise or B2B contracts documented.

Name

Local Food And Wine

Legal name

Local Food And Wine

Website

https://localfoodandwine.wordpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Local Food And Wine is a Paris-based food and wine media platform founded by Paige Donner, publishing a blog, podcast, and YouTube channel covering regional wines and sustainable food, monetized primarily through a low-priced wine tips email subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food and Wine Media Publishing

akta.pro primary industry

Alcohol Subscription & Wine Clubs (Retail) (CRANABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wine Tastings & Vineyard/Winery Tours (THAJAGAD)

Keywords

• Food and wine media
• Wine content publishing
• Podcast production
• Wine subscription services
• Culinary travel content

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Wine Tips Subscription (Cherie du Vin): Monthly subscription service providing wine tips, food pairings, and new release recommendations. Delivered via monthly email. Priced at $5 or €5 for 6 months (approximately 99¢ per month).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Local Food And Wine operates a food and wine media platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2009 by Paige Donner. The company produces editorial content via a WordPress blog, the Local GOODfood+wine podcast (69+ episodes), and Local Food And Wine TV on YouTube, covering regional wines, sustainable food, wine regions (Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Napa, Mendoza, Okanagan, etc.), and culinary travel. It also offers a wine tips subscription service (Chérie du Vin) and wine consulting/speaking services led by the founding editor.

Product overview

Local Food And Wine is a media company offering a blog platform focused on food and wine content, featuring the core Local Food And Wine website/blog, the Local GOODfood+wine podcast, and Local Food And Wine TV YouTube channel. The company also offers a Gourmet Goodie Box product line, a wine tips subscription service called Chérie du Vin, and wine consulting/speaking services by founding editor Paige Donner.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Paris GOODfood+wine: Podcast focused on food and wine in Paris and France
• Local GOODfood+wine
• Chérie Du Vin
• Local Food And Wine TV

Products and services

• Local Food And Wine Blog A WordPress-based editorial platform featuring articles, reviews, and features about local foods, regional wines, wine regions (Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne), restaurants, culinary tourism, and food culture for individual food and wine enthusiasts.
• Local GOODfood+wine Podcast A podcast series covering food and wine topics, featuring episodes on wine regions, culinary experiences, chefs, food sustainability, and wine culture. Available on iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
• Local Food And Wine TV A YouTube channel featuring video content about food, wine, and culinary experiences, including restaurant features, wine tastings, and cooking demonstrations for food and wine enthusiasts.
• Chérie du Vin Wine Tips Subscription A monthly subscription service offering wine tips, food and wine pairings, and new release recommendations delivered by email, authored by Paige Donner (Certified Wine Locations Specialist). Priced at $5 or €5 for 6 months (approximately 99¢ per month).
• Gourmet Goodie Box by Local Food And Wine A curated selection of gourmet food and wine products available for purchase through the Local Food And Wine shop.
• Wine Consulting and Speaking Services Professional consulting services offered by Paige Donner, a Certified Wine Locations Specialist with particular specialization in Champagne and French wines, including wine consulting, speaking engagements, and media appearances.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Frey VineyardsminorOthersFeatured winery partner on the Local Food And Wine platform. Frey Vineyards is highlighted as the first organic winery in the United States, located in Redwood Valley, Mendocino County, California. Specializes in biodynamic, sulfite-free organic wines that are also vegan and gluten-free.
• ParducciminorOthersFeatured sustainable winery partner. Parducci is owned in partnership by grape-growing families of Tom and Tim Thornhill and Paul Dolan in Mendocino County, California. Known for sustainable winegrowing practices including tree-free papers, soy based inks, biodiesel tractors, and organic grape growing.
• Too Good To GominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeatured in Episode 67 of the podcast covering food waste reduction and surplus food redistribution through the Too Good To Go app.
• BoredNHungryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeatured in Episode 69 covering NFTs meeting food, with Andy Nguyen's BoredNHungry project at the intersection of NFTs and culinary content.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• VinePair: VinePair is a digital wine and food media publication producing daily editorial content and newsletters — same food-and-wine content/newsletter model as Local Food And Wine, but operating as a venture-backed media company at scale.
• Club Oenologique: Club Oenologique is a subscription-based wine publication offering curated tasting notes, region features, and wine recommendations to enthusiast subscribers — a near-identical business model to Local Food And Wine's Chérie du Vin subscription.
• Snooth: Snooth is a wine reviews, region content, and consumer discovery platform — directly comparable to Local Food And Wine's blend of wine reviews, region features, and food pairing recommendations aimed at enthusiast consumers.
• Wine Folly: Wine Folly is a leading wine education and content platform producing articles, infographics, and courses for enthusiast consumers — directly comparable to Local Food And Wine's wine education, region coverage, and food-pairing content focus, but at vastly larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Decanter: Decanter is a long-established premium wine magazine and digital media brand covering global wine regions — comparable to Local Food And Wine's editorial coverage of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Napa, and other regions, but with vastly larger editorial resources.
• The Drinks Business: The Drinks Business is an established global drinks industry media outlet covering wine, beer, and spirits — overlaps with Local Food And Wine's wine-region and wine-business editorial content as a broad incumbent.
• Wine Enthusiast: Wine Enthusiast is a large, established wine media brand producing reviews, region coverage, and wine lifestyle content across web, print, and ecommerce — overlapping with Local Food And Wine's editorial mission but operating as a broad multi-channel incumbent.

Emerging players

• SevenFifty Daily: SevenFifty Daily is a digital wine industry publication producing editorial content on producers, regions, and trends — comparable in content format and wine-region focus to Local Food And Wine's editorial output, though B2B-skewed.
• Wine Folly (Wine App): While still part of Wine Folly, their mobile app product represents an evolution from blog/newsletter content to a transactional wine-learning tool — indicative of the direction a content-led wine media brand can scale, relevant as a comparable trajectory to Local Food And Wine's content-plus-subscription model.
• UnWined: UnWined is a wine subscription and content platform offering curated bottles and editorial content to enthusiast consumers — similar subscription-driven wine enthusiast model to Local Food And Wine, though focused on the UK market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/localfoodwine
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/localfoodandwine
• Facebookfacebook.com/localfoodandwine

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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