Wine Of The Month Clubs

Are wine of the month clubs as burdensome as some of the other like gifts you give all the year through by giving, initially, just once?  You may have had the delightful opportunity to see the TV series “Everybody Loves Raymond,” or maybe you at least got a chance to catch the episode where Ray’s parents express their disappointment in getting a gift from Ray and Deborah from the fruit-of-the-month club: Marie harps on the massive amounts of pears she and Frank have to endure, yak, yak, yak, complain, complain.  It is a pretty funny statement about the casual attitude toward gift-giving and also speaks to more creative club gifts—those you still do not have to get too involved in or spend too much money on (unless you choose to) but can still offer a more clever or at least seemingly thoughtful gift.

Think about the wine of the month clubs, again, for instance.  You can give a gift that is perpetual (for a year, or half a year, at least)…and you do not have to remember a particular day to keep consistent.  You can give the gift(s) that friends, colleagues, and loved ones like…without having to do a ton of research and without having to have the wine knowledge of a sommelier.  That is the wine of the month clubs that automatically send the recipient the new wine of the month remove your need to know what you are choosing and sending if you have no wine background.  And in the same respect, some of the wine of the month clubs allow you to choose the particular wine that goes out each month, if you do know and if it does matter to you the exact type, color, and bouquet and all.  Two of my friends, for instance, live together but prefer very different whites.  One loves the Pinot Grigio line and the other a good, moderately-priced Sauvignon.  So I can go with one of the wine of the month clubs that sned out one white and one red each month, or I can choose the exact vintner, flavor, etc. to be sent.

Likewise, some wine of the month clubs tap the sources of the world, to get you the perfect regional or rare/hard-to-find selections.  Others have a hierarchical system/method for shipping out wines—so you can start at the value pack level, or go into the premium ranges, or go all out and try the “signature” lines.

And, by the way, this is a great score for yourself, if you don’t wish to gift the wines but prefer trying varieties from all of the wine regions of the world yourself.