Best and Worst Wine Clubs
Disclaimer About Wine Clubs
Although I discuss the best and worst wine clubs, I do NOT like or promote them. If you really can not get to a wine store for valid reasons, then buy wine from ONLINE WINE STORES, not clubs. You can pick and choose exactly what you want. Google the wine and check the price before you buy in case it is too over-priced. Wine.com is a nice online store. You do not have to join their club. Clubs will send you inferior wines that have been specifically crafted for wine clubs at inflated prices. Please beware and avoid!
The Best Wine Club
I did not mean to trick you, but there is no best wine club to join and stay joined. However, there is one that you can join and take advantage of their promotional offer. Then, after you receive the shipment, cancel it because the prices go way up. It is the Wall Street Journal’s club. Do they really have any business getting involved with wine. Obviously, they do not. They have a great promotional offer. Go online at wsjwine.com and see. They give you a 12 bottle case plus 2 bonus bottles for $69.99 plus $20 shipping. That comes to $6.42 per bottle! Therefore, they are the best wine club for less then one month. LOL.
The Worst Wine Club
Technically, all wine clubs are the worst. But, one has the distinction. Like wsjwine.com, Vinesse a.k.a. American Wine Cellars has a great promotional offer, but when I tried to cancel, their web site and phones were unavailable for a week or so. I thought that I was caught in a huge scam until they suddenly came back on line. I called to cancel at what was now 3 weeks since the first order. Surprisingly, they said another order was already on the way. So, I am stuck in a scam. The employee tried to tell me it was five weeks. LOL. She said the only option is to refuse the order. I have to pay a 20% re-stocking fee and return shipping. I placed a sign on my front door so the Fedex guy, who left the first shipment without getting the required signature, would know I did not want it. He does not know that I have a camera that records, so I have him leaving the first shipment with no signature. And, I have him reading the note and taking a picture of it begrudgingly carrying the second shipment back to his truck.
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We tried the one-month introductory deal from Wall Street Journal, and ended up drinking two or three bottles at the most — the rest of the bottles, one-by-one after giving each a fair tasting, went down the kitchen drain. Those bottles were bad in a variety of ways, but one thing most had in common was a cloying sweetness. Oh yeah, they also had striking labels in most cases, maybe to distract us from the swill in the bottles…
Sorry I can’t be more positive — I’m not a wine snob in any way — but based on that experience I just can’t recommend their wines…
I appreciate your honesty. The average consumer likes them, but I wouldn’t recommend for experienced drinkers. Great opening deal and good for gifts. Sorry you had a bad experience.Frank