The 8 Best Wine Clubs of 2020

Wine Awake, a monthly club from Elma Wine & Liquor offers vino at a value price.

Members receive a mix of well-known varietals and regions as well as lesser-known varietals from unique wineries around the world. The budget-conscious, wine-lover will receive bottles that cost around 20% less than retail and are often about 40% less than shelf prices.

The club delivers two carefully-selected wines from around the world. Their goal is to raise awareness and knowledge, while still providing great value. The selections are a mix of classic grapes and styles, as well as an introduction to lesser-known varietals, regions, and brands.

Choose from red, white, or both. Red wine costs about $25 per month and white is approximately $20. Or, opt for both red and white bottles for around $45 each month and receive four bottles.

Choose from six bottles every six weeks, or 12 wines shipped every eight weeks. Both memberships include free shipping. The six-bottle option costs around $9 per bottle, while 12 bottles cost about $8 each. Pick red, white, or a combination of both. If you’re unhappy with the vino, they’ll replace it for free.

New members all receive the same curated collection of wines, as a comprehensive introduction to their cellar: a 2017 La Reference Sauvignon Blanc from France, a 2016 Les Chartrons Bordeaux Rouge from France, and a 2013 El Macho Reserva Red Blend from Spain.

For gift-giving, send a year of wine to someone you love. Choose the number of shipments, and whether you’d like to send reds, whites, or a mixed selection. Make a single payment, and Martha Stewart’s favorite bottles will be sent, along with serving suggestions, pairing, and entertaining.

Whether you’re living a keto or paleo lifestyle, or just prefer your vino as natural as possible, Dry Farm Wines is a natural, health-focused wine club.

The blends are biodynamic and keto- and paleo-friendly, with all wines lab-tested for purity. They’re also natural, additive-free, naturally sugar-free, and low in alcohol.

Choose your shipment for every four weeks or bi-monthly. For approximately $159 per shipment, you’ll receive a unique selection of six bottles of red, white, or mixed blends. Or, for about $299, you’ll get 12 biodynamic natural wines sourced from small farms around the world.

Each shipment includes different grape varieties and styles from varying countries. The company’s Happiness Promise guarantees satisfaction with your selection.

If you’re unhappy with your order, the company will replace or refund any bottle and cover all costs.

Since 1990, The California Wine Club has delivered blends from working wineries.

Whereas some clubs offer their own wines or private label vino, they only feature real-working wineries with, “the intent of helping small, family wineries share their wines with wine lovers all over the country.”

The California Wine Club prides itself on the quality of the handcrafted bottles it features. Each bottle is hand-selected, and the company does not outsource.

There are a variety of levels for choosing a subscription. The Pacific Northwest Series features two bottles of handpicked, artisan blends from Oregon and Washington’s best family wineries for about $77 per shipment.

The Premier Series features a different winery each month and delivers two hand-selected, handcrafted blends, a guide to the winery that includes tasting notes and insights, access to a personal vino consultant, their Love It guarantee, plus VIP touring and tasting at any of the small family wineries they feature.

The Premier Series offers a pay-as-you-go system, where you pay around $41 indefinitely until you decide to cancel.

Natural wine sommelier, Doreen Winkler loves orange wines so she created the subscription club, Orange Glou. The business sources highly-allocated orange vino from around the world through a monthly subscription and events.

For Winkler, nothing beats the versatility, drinkability, and sheer deliciousness of skin-contact wines. Yet, despite growing interest among wine lovers, it’s not always easy to find these vino options.

Winkler developed relationships with winemakers over the years, in addition to working harvests at vineyards in many of the world’s best wine-growing regions. Her experience led her to create the subscription service providing highly curated, personal selections of the most distinctive blends in the world.

Each month, subscribers receive three-to-six bottles selected by Winkler. The bottles arrive with descriptions, tasting notes, vinification information, and food pairing suggestions. The three-bottle subscription costs about $105 per month, while six bottles of orange wine are priced around $195 per month.

Cellar 503 is a wine club that showcases unique, high-quality, and affordable wines that represent the range and diversity of Oregon vino.

Founder and CEO Carrie Wynkoop handpicks each bottle she sends to her members, featuring boutique producers (often making under 2,000 cases per year), unique varietals, and undiscovered regions across the state.

With monthly themes like “women winemakers” and “unique vessels,” Wynkoop includes detailed notes about the vino, winemakers, and regions, making Oregon wine-discovery personal, seamless, affordable, and fun.

Members can choose from a red-only club, a white-only club or a mixed club, sent monthly or quarterly. Gift memberships are also available. To uncover the magic of Oregon wine, memberships start at around $45 per month, plus shipping.