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Our goal is to make your life easier by testing every wine club we recommend, so that you know you're only signing up with a top notch wine of the month club. While we have thoroughly enjoyed the process, all the wine :-) and the remunerations we've received for every new wine club member we send, as we've been doing these wine club reviews for years now, we're constantly surprised at how few GOOD wine clubs there really are out there. Point in case, we've run into a fair number of wine clubs, that claim to be the best wine clubs, that we will NEVER recommend to you, because the wines and/or customer service were horrible!
Rest assured though, the wine clubs we recommend, whether they be the California Wine Club or Cellars Wine Club or another wine club have all been pre-screened and received rave wine club reviews from not only us, but from other wine club members that have also enjoyed their wine club membership and the wines they've received.
Our New #1 Best Wine Club of 2012
Congratulations to the Wall Street Journal Wine Club for being our new #1 Best Wine Club for 2012. We love this wine club and we think you will too. Check out our full Wall Street Journal Wine Club Review packed with photos of what you'll receive when you sign up or give it as a gift.
Watch our video review of the Wall Street Journal Wine Club and see what you get with your purchase.
I’ve been mentioning the California Wine Club a lot in my blog posts as they keep coming out with great new offers that I feel compelled to share with my readers. This latest California Wine Club Promo Code gives you 4 months for the price of 3. This is the perfect time to give a gift to one of your friends or family members…or yourself! What better way to get an extra month of award winning California wine for free, right?
This is one of the reasons why my wife and I LOVE the California Wine Club so much, they constantly come out with new discount codes that give you that extra little push you sometimes need to sign up for their wine club, give it as a gift to a friend (Happy Mother’s Day!) or just reorder some of your favorite wines.
There are currently 2 different red wines that I can’t get enough of. Sorry, I’m not going to list them here as I don’t want them to sell out instantly Lets just say that their both gold medal winning wines, they both received 90+ point ratings and they are priced under $20 a bottle. What more could you ask for, right? So, along comes this email from the California Wine Club and I just can’t resist picking up a couple more bottles while they still have them.
I’m already getting them for 35% off thanks to the California Wine Club clearance sale taking place right now, but I also get shipping (which usually costs $36) for only $1. And to make the deal even sweeter, I used one of our California Wine Club Discount Codes to save 15% off my entire order! That means that I basically got the wine for 50% off AND I got shipping for only $1. Awesome deal! I wish these types of discount codes came around more often, but alas they expire frequently. Get the latest California Wine Club Discount Code here.
Every year we update our list of the 10 Best Wine Clubs and its high time we got around to announcing the 2012 results and giving you some insight into our wine club review process.
2012 has been a great year so far for wines and we’ve sure received a LOT of wine from all the wine clubs we’re a member of. Not all the wines have been as phenomenal as we had hoped though. Even some of the gold medal winning wines were just not that great. Which of course calls into question the entire gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal award issuing process, but that’s a completely different blog post that we’ll write about later.
Out of all the wines we have tasted so far in 2012, the wines from these wine clubs have been the best:
We’ll continue to update this list throughout the year and will of course let you know if anything changes in our wine club review standings for 2012. Cheers!
My wife and I been long-time members of the Cellars Wine Club Sweet Wine Club and absolutely love the great award winning wines they’ve sent us over the years. As a member, every month we get 2 bottles of sweet wine that are usually white wines, but once in a while we get a blush or a sparkling wine that is also sweet. The discounts we get for reorders are always a nice bonus, but even better is using one of the Cellars Wine Club Promotion Codes when you sign up to save 10% off your order or more. With the Sweet Wine Club, if you sign up for a year, you save almost $50 off your initial order!
These types of Promotional Codes change quite often, so instead of listing them in our blog posts, we now just list them on our dedicated Cellars Wine Club Review page which you can find by clicking here.
In a surprising turn of events, Wine.com has seemingly acquired MyWinesDirect.com. My Wines Direct was one of our Top 10 Best Wine Clubs for 2009, 2010 & 2011 and we were sad to see them go in Q4 2011. Now it appears that Wine.com is taking over the My Wines Direct operation. A recent visit to the MyWinesDirect.com homepage showed the image you see below.
The Wine.com Coupon Code for 1 cent shipping on your first wine.com purchase is a nice incentive to sign up for their wine club. However, the fine print at the bottom of the page explains that the 1 cent shipping coupon code does not apply to wine club memberships. BOOOOOOOOO!!! Why take over one of the top wine clubs if you’re not going to offer 1 cent shipping to new wine club members Wine.com?! Just another reason why we don’t rank wine.com in our top 10 list of best wine clubs.
I just got an email from the California Wine Club announcing a new promo code that you can use when giving a wine club membership that saves you a minimum of $49.95. I say a minimum, because that’s how much you’ll save if you choose to give a 12 month “Premier Club” membership (their entry level wine club). However, if you choose to give a 12 month membership of the more expensive Aged Cabernet Series you save $210!
Here’s how much you can save based on the different wine clubs the California Wine Club offers:
- Premier Club: Save $49.95 when you give a 1 year gift membership
- Signature Series: Save $137 when you give a 1 year gift membership
- International Selections: Save $84 when you give a 1 year gift membership
- Aged Cabernet Series: Save $210 when you give a 1 year gift membership
Here’s How It Works
Get the California Wine Club Coupon Code and enter it when you’re completing your purchase online. You instantly get 1 additional month free. As an example, when you give the gift of the Premier Club to yourself or your wife or anyone else, you’ll get 13 months for the price of 12 months. An individual month costs $49.95 for the Premier Club. Enjoy!
Every once in a while I like to test out new California Wine Club Coupon Codes that I hear about. This one isn’t as good as our other California Wine Club Coupon Codes, but it does indeed work. In fact, I just tested it 5 minutes ago and it would have saved me 5% (over $20) if I had actually completed my order. Here’s the screenshot of what it looks like…
I’ve been a member of the Cellars Wine Club for several years now and love the wines we receive from their 90+ Point Wine Club, West Coast Wine Club and their Sweet Wine Club. If you’re not familiar with this wine club, be sure to read our Cellars Wine Club Review which has several promo codes (including a $25 off coupon) that you can use to save money when you sign up for one of their wine club memberships.
I was going to list all of the Cellars Wine Club promo codes here, but they change quite frequently, so be sure to get the latest one here.
The Gold Medal Wine Club announced a couple of days ago that they were going to be offering free shipping on ALL ORDERS when you enter the Gold Medal Wine Club Coupon Code FREESHIP. While this special coupon was supposed to expire today at 12 noon, I just checked it and it still works! How much longer it works for is anyones guess though, so I recommend using it as soon as possible. If you do try it and it no longer works, then be sure to use one of our permanent Gold Medal Wine Club Coupons and of course be sure to read our review to ensure the Gold Medal Wine Club is the right wine club for you.
I was sad to see My Wines Direct go out of business this past holiday season Q4 is usually the best time of the year for most wine club providers too, its unfortunate they couldn’t make it to December 25th to reap the rewards of all the holiday shoppers. We first reviewed the My Wines Direct wine club 6 years ago and greatly enjoyed receiving the high-quality wines they delivered from around the world. We wish the My Wines Direct team the best of luck and do hope they return to the wine club scene soon.
What better way to get an extra month of award winning California wine for free, right?
Q4 is usually the best time of the year for most wine club providers too, its unfortunate they couldn’t make it to December 25th to reap the rewards of all the holiday shoppers. We first reviewed the My Wines Direct wine club 6 years ago and greatly enjoyed receiving the high-quality wines they delivered from around the world. We wish the My Wines Direct team the best of luck and do hope they return to the wine club scene soon.