Wine Club Sign Up

Wine Club Sign Up...
Great Wines in a Nutshell

If you are even slightly interested in wine, it is a great idea to sign up for a wine club.

Provided that you choose a good wine club, once you sign up for it, all your wine choice problems will be over. A good wine club will namely taste and sample hundreds of wines every month, in order to choose the best ones for you.

A wine club sign up usually involves a membership deal, which can take many different forms. Some special wine clubs, generally the ones with a strong educational focus, such as The Wine Society, tend to charge a membership fee. This is unusual in the sense that you don't have to pay to sign up for wine clubs in general; what you pay for is only the wine.

Filling in the Blanks

In order to sign up for any wine club, you need to fill out some simple forms. First of all, you need to check out the wine club's wine plans section and decide which one you are willing to subscribe to.

While some wine clubs class their wine plans according to pricing or the wines' aging-styles, others have sections like Australian wines, as it is the case with The Sunday Times Wine Club

Some wine clubs also have sections dedicated exclusively to one varietal, and there are even entire wine clubs like this, such as the Oregon Pinot Noir Wine Club.

After choosing your preferred wine plan, you will sometimes also have to decide between red, white, and mixed selections.

You may also have to choose how many bottles and how often you want to receive them.

Small wine clubs tend to offer less of a choice in this respect, but the large online wine clubs, such as the excellent Cellars Wine Club, will have a list of endless options for you.

Once you have selected every aspect of your membership, you will need to provide the address where you want the wine delivered. Most wine clubs deliver to both home and office, and virtually none deliver to PO boxes. You will also have to be aware that a person over your country's drinking age will have to be available to receive and sign for wine deliveries.

Being a Member

Now, your wine club sign up will be ready, of course, you will have to provide your credit card information first. Sometimes you will have to pay for the first shipment in advance. Rarely, you will have to commit to a whole year of membership, but, in most cases, unless you explicitly cancel a shipment, you will be charged for it.

Most clubs will guarantee the wine, some even to the extent that they will give you a refund if you didn't like the wine. However, getting refunds from wine clubs, even for bottles that arrived damaged, can be a lengthy process.

To save yourself the trouble, I recommend you join a wine club with impeccable customer service like the clubs I mentioned above, and the Pacific Wine Club or Cellarmasters, to name but a few.

A wine club sign up is a simple process, the most important part of which is the selection of the wine club itself.

If you happen to stumble upon one of the numerous great wine clubs in the market, you will be on the road to enjoying outstanding, hassle-free wine for as long as you wish. :-)