Exploring Wine Club Memberships

Wine Club Memberships...
The Exciting Variety

If you are interested in wine today you will be faced with a great choice of wine club memberships.

If you have never been a wine club member, you will perhaps be a little confused by all the different options and wine plans that online wine clubs are offering these days.

Membership in a wine club (or two) should be a way to make your life easier, not harder. Therefore, you should look for a club that has simple wine club applications

And of course, when it comes to wine club membership, variety is the key.

It goes without saying that you will have to make some decisions about how you want your wine club sign up to work; but that should take you less than five minutes to pick and submit to your prospective wine club's website...

... that is of course after you've decided on your best wine club option.

Wine Plans for All

Though there are some wine clubs that have only one or two wine plan options, such as the Amazing Wine Club, most of them offer wine club members a great choice of everything, from delivery frequencies to originating regions and cellaring potential. What you choose will have to do with your budget, your taste in wine, and your intentions in joining a wine club.

Joining a wine club with the largest number of wine plans doesn't mean that you will have a wider scope of wines to choose from. Some of them offer many wine plans that do not necessarily represent great variety in regions or wine styles. The Nectar Wine Club is a good example of this.

On the other hand, some wine clubs base their wine plans exclusively on pricing, making for budget-oriented memberships.

For instance, the WOW (Wines of Washington) Club offers a choice between an affordable Standard option and a Premium club. In the same region, The Washington State Wine Club offers a slightly wider variety of Premier, Vintage, and Reserve memberships.

As Often as You Wish

When you are looking at different wine club memberships, frequency of delivery will always be a central aspect that will influence your choice between different wine club invitations

While some wine clubs offer only quarterly selections, some others deliver every month, in the tradition of the original "wine of the month club" concept.

The California-based Original Wine of the Month Club and the Gourmet Monthly Wine Club are an example of truly monthly wine clubs. If you are looking for clubs with quarterly deliveries, you can consider the Wall Street Journal Wine Club, the New Zealand Wine Society or the Four Seasons Wine Club

For a more flexible choice of frequency, the Southern Hemisphere Wine Center offers southern wines delivered either monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly. The Australian Boomerang Wine Club and the Oregon Pinot Noir Wine Club offer similar choices for their shipments.

Memberships to Fit

As you can see, there are wine clubs out there to fit your every budget and style, and it is easy to understand how wine clubs work, provided you do a little research.

If you are committed to improving the quality (and value for money) of the wine you purchase, and if you think a little learning is in order, wine club memberships are an excellent choice; one that both you and your palate will be grateful for. :-)