Best Wine Club?

Try going to your local wine stores and see if they have tastings. IF they do, it's a good bet they have a wine club too. Attend some of the tastings, and see if you like what they are proffering up. If you find that they select well, join theirs. There are lots of wine stores to choose from. Most will be mediocre, but a few will be outstanding. You might get lucky.

Jose

To mirror what Jose says, I'd look locally first. This will allow you to offer feedback, and maybe tailor the "club" to your tastes.

I belong to several vintner's clubs, but these are specific to the wineries. I like most, but may drop one, or two soon. OTOH, I get a dozen offers for "clubs," every month. From the details in the brochures, it appears that most are "liquidators" of wine, not real clubs. In the ones that look mildly interesting, I've attempted to find Web sites for the wineries, and almost always come up empty. Now, some may well be boutique wineries, with little presence in the US, but I suspect that most are extremely tiny, and this is their only entry to the US market. Some may be great, but if NO ONE has ever heard of them, why would I want to invest my $ and time to try and sort them out. There are just too many great producers, that see regular importation/distribution, that I do not need to pay for "off-brands." Heck, there are probably three-dozen wineries in Napa, that I have never heard of, much less tried - you can multiply that by 1,000 for the rest of the wine- producing world.

I know that you would like some definite recs. but I really do not have any. The two "clubs" that I enjoy the most are Joseph Phelps (Napa), and Picchetti (Santa Cruz), but they are specific to the wineries, and are not international clubs, though both, especially Phelps, have international varietals very often, just from the US.

Back in my days in Denver, I belonged to a club at the Vineyard in Cherry Creek. Even with the "premium" membership, with concentration on reds, there were about as many "bombs," as there were hits.

Hunt

I've had good luck with Bevmo and KLWines. Jon