Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Wine Blue Book uses very few, and only the analytics cookies need your permission. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings, also available in the footer of every page.

Cookies we use

Name	Set by	Purpose	Duration	Type
cookie_consent	winebluebook.com	Remembers your choice in the cookie banner	6 months	Necessary
_ga	Google Analytics	Distinguishes visitors for statistics	2 years	Analytics (only with your consent)
_ga_<ID>	Google Analytics	Keeps the session state	2 years	Analytics (only with your consent)

If you decline analytics cookies, Google Analytics doesn’t store cookies and only receives signals without identifiers (Google Consent Mode). If you withdraw consent you gave earlier, we delete the Google Analytics cookies from your browser.

Amazon links

Our site doesn’t set Amazon cookies. If you click an affiliate link, Amazon.com may use its own cookies on its website to attribute the purchase, under its own cookie policy.

When you click an Amazon link, Google Analytics records an affiliate_click event (which box or button you used and the product name). It follows your analytics choice above, like every other page view.

Local storage

Our articles store two small preferences in your browser’s storage, with no personal data: wbb-sticky-closed (session storage, deleted when you close the tab) remembers that you closed the product bar at the bottom of the page, and wbb-exit-popup (local storage) remembers when you last saw the “Before you go” box with our picks, so it doesn’t show again for 7 days. Both are needed for the features to work as you chose and aren’t used for tracking. You can delete them by clearing your browser’s site data.

Managing cookies in your browser

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge). If you block all cookies, the site still works, but we’ll ask for your choice again on each visit.