Wine Club Gift Memberships... A Gift of Bottled Pleasures
Wine clubs have revolutionized the way we think about buying and selecting wine. As a wine lover, you no longer need to stress yourself reading a million different labels and not knowing which winemaker to trust. Wine clubs are, in fact, making your life easier, if you are already profiting from all of their many advantages.
Giving wine club gift memberships to your loved ones can be a way of making their lives easier as well, while providing for a great deal of pleasures to come.
If you have never thought about this, it is a good time to consider it. Of course, your task will be much easier, if you are already a member of a local wine club in your area. In that case, you can simply decide to share with your loved ones the great service - and great wines - you are already enjoying.
Tell Me Which Wines You Like...
However, if wine is not really your thing, and you don't know the wine clubs in your area, you will have to do a bit of research. The most important thing you must imperatively do is learn about your gift recipient's taste in wine, as well as their level of expertise.
It goes without saying that wine club gift memberships offering numerous bottles of common table wines will hardly satisfy a connoisseur.
When you log on to your prospective wine club's website, you will probably have to choose frequency of delivery, number of selections you are offering, wine plan, and preferred type of wine (red/white/mixed). Other than your budget, the only thing you have to take into account is your friend/relative's wine-drinking profile.
For the Aficionado and the Connoisseur
If you are dealing with a connoisseur, I strongly recommend choosing one of the many available wine club gift memberships offering 90+ points wine selections.
This means that all the wines your expert friend will get will have received top scores from the industries leading specialists. To check for the accuracy of the wine-ratings posted on websites, you can log on to snooth.com or one of the leading wine appreciation magazines, such as
Wine Spectator
and
Wine Enthusiast
On the other hand, if you're giving a wine club membership to an aficionado, you don't really need to aim that high, but you should certainly look for a wine club with a reputation for consistently selecting good quality wines.
A local winery wine club is a good idea; for example, if you know your gift recipient loves a certain brand of wine. If they have a favorite varietal, you can join a club like the Oregon Pinot Noir Wine Club for $51 per month.
If they love wines from a certain region, you should look to the likes of the Acequia Wine Club, which offers fabulous wines from Argentina, delivered to America and Europe for $149 per shipment, all costs included.
A Gift of Pure Joy
Selecting wine club gift memberships has its difficulties, but if you are organized, you can pull it off in minutes.
This little amount of work and the price you pay will be generously rewarded by the long-lasting pleasures you will be bestowing on your dear friends and relatives, when you give them the ancient gift of wine; one that brings with it the promise of unforgettable moments of relaxation and pure joy.