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After reviewing over 100 different California wine clubs, we found the following wine clubs to be the golden states' best in regards to pricing, customer service, wine quality, and wine education / wine tasting notes. We're always on the lookout for new California wine clubs that make it in our Top 10 Best California Wine Clubs to ensure we only recommend the best wine of the month clubs to you. |
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Overall Rating:  Phenomenal
The California Wine Club earned our #1 Best California Wine Club ranking this year for delivering so many great award winning California wines from Napa, Sonoma, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara,Sierra Foothills, etc. These are 90+ point wines JUST from California that are fantastic. They've got excellent customer service (both over email and phone), no membership fees, you can cancel at any time and that every wine is 100% quality guaranteed. |
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Wine Quality: Phenomenal
The quality of the California wines the California Wine Club sent us was absolutely phenomenal. The owners of the wine club are constantly searching for award-winning 90+ point wines from California's best "mom & pop" wineries. These are the wineries that only sell locally. You won't find these great wines at Trader Joes. |
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Wine Education:  Excellent
With every monthly or quarterly wine club shipment (you choose the frequency), you'll receive a 12-page, full color publication called Uncorked that offers an up-close and personal look at the vineyard behind the wines plus tasting notes, recipes, interviews, games and more. |
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Pricing: Excellent
Starting at just $17.97 a bottle, the California Wine Club is very well priced for award winning wines. Our favorite club is the California Wine Club Signature Series which is their 90+ point wine club that costs $75 a bottle / $150 per shipment. If you've got the money, this is by far the best California wine club there is. |
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Overall Rating:  Outstanding
Cellars Wine Club brings some of the best California wines from Napa, Sonoma and Monterey into their West Coast Wine Club. These wines are from boutique wineries with limited production. You'll also get select wines from Oregon's and Washington's Willamette Valley and Columbia Valley regions. |
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Wine Quality: Phenomenal
Just like last year, Cellars West Coast Wine Club has some of the best wines available out of all other California wine clubs. Wines featured include, but are not limited to, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc for Reds. Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, and Riesling for Whites. |
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Wine Education: Excellent
With every monthly wine club shipment, you'll receive a free newsletter detailing the wineries and wines featured in that shipment, tasting notes, food pairings, recipes, and other wine related articles. |
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Pricing: Excellent
Cellar's West Coast Wine Club is affordably priced at $39.95 a month for two bottles of red wine, two bottles of white wine or one red wine and one white wine. |
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Overall Rating: Excellent
Laithwaites comes in fourth for California Wine Clubs because the California wines they do include in their quarterly shipments are excellent! They also offer the lowest prices and, in our humble opinion, some of the best California wines. |
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Wine Quality: Excellent
Every quarter we receive a new 12 bottle shipment from Laithwaites and we're always pleasantly surprised by quality of the California wines we receive. At only $5.84 a bottle, you'd expect the wines you receive from California to be low quality, but that's just not the case with Laithwaites. |
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Wine Education: Excellent
Laithwaites does an excellent job of educating you on each and every California wine that they deliver. You'll learn where the wine came from (Napa, Sonoma, Temecula, etc.), what the growing season was like that gave the wine it's unique flavor, how it was harvested and what was added (if anything) to make the wine so unique and delectable. |
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Pricing: Phenomenal
Laithwaites offers the LOWEST PRICING out of all the California wine clubs we've reviewed at only $5.84 a bottle. Like the other California Wine Clubs, shipping and handling is extra. |
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Overall Rating: Excellent
The Wall Street Journal Wine Club came in at #5 on our California Wine Clubs list because not all the wines you receive from this wine club are from California. The ones you will receive from golden state are definitely worth mentioning though. In addition to the great wine you'll receive, we ranked this wine club highly for the great wine education you'll receive, exceptionally low prices (only $5.84 a bottle), and the superb free gifts. This wine club makes a great gift :-) |
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Wine Quality: Excellent
Every quarter you'll get 12 bottles of delicious high-quality wine from the WSJ Wine Club. Even though your first shipment only costs $5.84 a bottle, the wine quality is still superb and in our opinion rivals that of wine that costs $100 a bottle. |
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Wine Education: Excellent
The Wall Street Journal Wine Club also does an excellent job of educating you on every California wine that they deliver. You'll learn where in California the wine came from, what the growing season was like that gave the wine it's unique flavor, how the grapes were harvested, etc. |
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Pricing: Phenomenal
Like the Laithwaites Wine Club, the WSJ Wine Club offers the lowest pricing out of all the California wine clubs we've reviewed at only $5.84 a bottle, making it an easy choice as a wine club gift. Their money back guarantee ensures that if you're not satisfied with your wine club purchase, you'll be sure to get it all back. |
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Overall Rating: Excellent
Uncorked Ventures Wine Club did quite well in our ratings this year (#7 out of 10) for their exciting California wine picks, reasonable prices and the wide variety of great domestic and international wines you will receive - all of which we're 90 points or better! In fact, they earned the #1 position this year in our 90+ point wine club reviews. |
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Wine Quality: Phenomenal
The Uncorked Ventures Wine Club only sends you California wine of exceptional quality. To be 90+ point wines, they have to be the best! The owners, Matt Krause and Mark Aselstine, personally try each and every California wine they consider for their wine club, and then only send you the best ones. That's a really nice personal touch you won't get with the big corporate run wine clubs. |
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Wine Education: Excellent
Every wine club shipment (you decide the frequency: monthly or quarterly) comes with detailed notes on the California wines you receive. You will learn about the vineyard and people that made the wine, how it was made and what made it so special to receive a 90+ point rating. (see example #1 and example #2) |
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Pricing: Excellent
Uncorked Ventures offers 3 different wine clubs: Wine Exploration Club, Special Selections Wine Club and the Reserve Selections Wine Club. Pricing starts at $20 a bottle and goes all the way up to $97.50 a bottle, depending on the wine club you choose. If you can afford it, we HIGHLY recommend the Reserve Selections Club. |
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| #10 |
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Overall Rating: Excellent
Coastal Vineyards has 12 great California wine clubs to choose from that feature only premier, top quality vintages, custom crafted by specialty wine makers in the Paso Robles and
Santa Barbara Region. There are absolutely no membership fees, no cancellation costs, shipping is always included in the price, and that they offer a 100% money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the wines you receive. |
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Wine Quality: Excellent
Coastal Vineyards is the only wine club that offers such high quality wines from the Paso Robles and Santa Barbara Region. Ever since we did a trip down the region, we've fallen in love with quality of wine available there. Here are the types of wine clubs you can get via the Coastal Vineyards wine club: Bordeaux, Cabernet, Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Zinfandel, etc. |
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Wine Education:  Very Good
Coastal Vineyard does a great job of sharing everything they know about the wines they send. They don't focus their efforts on
artistic labels or fancy names or even worse, the Wine Spectator rating. Instead, they only teach you how each and every wine you receive is custom crafted by specialty wine makers who are still faithful to the art of making wine
with passion that can be tasted in each and every bottle opened, poured and enjoyed. |
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Pricing: Very Good
Prices range from $18.75 a bottle to $35.00 a bottle depending on which club you sign up for. Sign up for a one year membership to get the best deal. |
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