The Best Wine Clubs

Thursday, January 21st

2021 Wine Club Reviews

Cellars Wine Club

Cellars Wine Club provides outstanding new and hard to find wines throughout the world. This is a very flexible wine club membership with choices that can meet all of your needs. You can choose to send from as little as 1 bottle or up to a case of wine with each delivery, as well as white wines, red wines, or a mix to meet your gift recipient's tastes and likes. If you're looking for delicious, highly-rated wines, Cellars Wine Club is our top choice.

Gold Medal Wine Club

Gold Medal Wine Club has been in the wine business since 1992. Gold Medal provides member's access to five different exciting wine clubs with selections chosen from top medal winners and experts. With your membership at Gold Medal you'll enjoy great quality and well recognized selections.

The California Wine Club

The California Wine Club offers a variety of clubs that provide outstanding new and hard to find wines from California and all over the world. You can enjoy the option of choosing 2 reds, 2 whites, or a mix to meet your gift recipient's tastes and likes. This club provides wonderful wine, at a fair price, along with quality information to help educate all wine enthusiasts.

Winc

Winc provides a whole new approach to wine clubs. Just about every club out their shops and ships wines - serving as the middle man. Winc serves as both wine club operator and winery. Winc, along with a top-notch cast and crew, are a California based winery that produce over 100 different wines. With the Winc membership you'll receive 4 bottles per month picked to match your distinctive flavor profile. Choose all reds, all whites, or a best-of-both-worlds mix. Give Winc a chance and we believe you'll be satisfied every month.

International Wine Club

The International Wine of the Month Club delivers estate bottled, limited production wine and each shipment will include 2 specially selected wines - either 2 reds, 2 whites, or 1 of each - from distinct boutique wineries in the best producing regions worldwide. You are able to choose from customizable club options and receive your wine at highly competitive prices. Those benefits, along with their experience and international reputation earn them a spot near the top of our rankings.

Amazing Clubs

Amazing Clubs is a leader in a variety of food and beverage membership clubs. Shoppers will find flexible options with their two bottle wine club memberships as well as affordable pricing. This company has a history of standing behind their products.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart continues to be a tastemaker by hand-selecting each wine delivered in the Martha Stewart Wine Co. Wine Club. Club members can choose a half-case or go all in with a full case of red wine, white wine, or a mix of the two. With all the offerings being high quality affordable wines from around the world, it's hard to go wrong with this club.

Wine

Wine delivers gifts quickly. With four different wine clubs to choose from, they should have an option that fits most people's needs. Wine also offers convenient and affordable gift giving options.

Plonk Wine Club

Plonk Wine Club is a fairly standard 3, 6, 12 month online wine club that focuses on bringing expertly curated, small batch, and sustainably grown boutique wines to consumers at a lower cost. Plonk promises rare and unique wines that deliver great value and drink like far more expensive bottles. At Plonk Wine Club the focus is on eclectic wines made from lesser-known grapes from diverse regions around the world.

Wine Country Gift Baskets

Wine Country Gift Baskets has been delivering gifted wine for more than 30 years. Their wine clubs consist of two standard options: all red or red and white. All wine in their wine clubs originates in California and, while many great wines come from the region, higher rated competitors (with international wine choices) compete or beat Wine Country Gift Baskets on price and selection.

Laithwaites Wine Club

Laithwaites Wine Club is a UK based company that provides members a case of wine each quarter. Tony Laithwaites, long term wine expert, chooses wines from California, Italy, Spain and beyond. We found this club lacks the options and customization that many wine club shoppers are looking for. The website was also not forthcoming of the quarterly pricing and may confuse shoppers.

Wine of the Month

Great Clubs has a wide variety of monthly clubs to choose from. Along with wine, you can also purchase cigar clubs, beer clubs, coffee clubs, chocolate clubs, and more. While they may not be wine experts, they are reliable and their selections are good.

Grapes Wine

Grapes Wine provides two club options. Their first club offers 12 bottles each month for a year with a good price per bottle. The second provides elite selections with high-end prices to match. Both clubs have a year-long commitment and little flexibility if you'd like to end membership early.

Uncorked Ventures

Uncorked Ventures Wine Club is a small and relatively new online wine club opened by West Coast native Mark Aselstine and his brother-in-law Matt in 2010. Inspired by French Wine enthusiast Kermit Lynch, who brought lesser known regional wines from France to America, Mark and Matt started Uncorked Ventures to do the same for wines from the West Coast.

Harry & David

The Harry & David gift wine club offers Oregon Wines in a basic 3, 6, or 12 month club membership. Pay up front for the full membership and send 2 bottles of Oregon wine each month to the gift recipient; one red and one white. If you are looking to gift only Oregon wines, this might be club for you. But if you are interested in a wine club for any other reason, other options may be a better choice.

Virgin Wine Club

In the US the Virgin name means records and mobile phones. We felt many customers wouldn't see the significance of Virgin Wines and quality, great tasting bottles of delicious wines. The website lacked forthcoming information on how the wine is selected and quarterly pricing. Many wine club members will prefer a wine club with greater flexibility and club options.

WSJ Wine Club

We realize that millions of people trust and love the Wall Street Journal but we aren't sure know how that transfers to great tasting wine. The presence of Tony Laithwaite wine expertise helps but the low overall cost of these wines was a bit concerning. We would have also liked to see more wine club options such as smaller quantities, more regular deliveries and region specific offerings.