Wine Of The Month Club

Joining a wine club is something which can be a lot of fun if wine happens to be a hobby of yours. You’ll be in good company, as a growing number of people are choosing to join wine clubs rather than other social activities, such as keg parties or knitting circles.

Joining a wine of the month club offers the opportunity to meet other enthusiasts and taste a lot of wines you may otherwise never have the chance to try.

A lot of vineyards and bottlers are choosing to promote themselves by starting their own wine clubs. If you’re interested in joining a wine club yourself, then read on; I’ve listed the five biggest benefits to joining a wine club – there’s more to it than the opportunity to drink some wine you may not be able to come across at your local grocery store or liquor shop.

1. Your wine will arrive in an inconspicuous brown wrapper; perfect if you happen to have nosy neighbors.

• Wine clubs deliver wines via UPS in plain brown boxes. Your nosy neighbor won’t be able to see what’s being delivered to you – a good thing, since it’s none of their business!

2. Impress your friends. You’ll be able to amass a wine collection including some harder to find bottles at a low price. You can point to that garage Petite Syrah in your collection and tell friends that it sells at auction for hundreds of dollars (after all, they don’t have to know that you didn’t pay anywhere near that much for that bottle).

3. Make Money. You can host your own wine tastings from bottles in your collection. You could even choose to charge a fee for attending your tasting.

4. Saves Time and Effort…A wine club selection keeps your own shelves well stocked, and this beats the heck out of dashing to the nearest grocery to find a $5 bottle to serve unexpected dinner guests. Come to think of it, if they are that unexpected, they might deserve the $2.50 special at the end of the grocery shelves after all.

5. Pranks! One of the benefits of wine clubs is that you’ll be able to fool your friends.

• You’ll know exactly what’s in that bottle, but your friends won’t have any clue! You can have a tasting challenge which you’ll win every time – you know which vintage and which vineyard, after all  - even if your friends can name the grape or grapes, you’ll still have them beat.

• Fill the empty bottles of really good wine with cheap stuff that you bought on sale and serve them to any of the pretentious snobs that you might know…. You know the ones that we are talking about, I’m sure. Make sure that others get the best wine you have and only your select guests should have glasses filled with your special “house wine”.

The wine snobs will probably spend a lot of time trying to rave about the wine as much as everyone else. This can be a great prank to reveal later; that is, if you can keep a straight face through dinner.