Best California Wine Clubs & Gifts

When it comes to California wine, one of the best places to start is The California Wine Club. Focusing on small-production wineries, The California Wine Club offers unprecedented access to high-quality California wines through several different wine clubs. They also have top-tier customer service and a personal wine consultant contacts each new customer to help them make the most of their new subscription or gift.

The Premier Series is focused on delivering quality wines at with good value. Additionally, this is the wine club level where they tend to offer the best deals, whether it's free shipping or bonus bottles, the Premier Series packs value into their wine club. Learn more about the Premier Series

The Signature Series is focused on the highest-quality California wines available. From boutique and in-demand wineries you'll receive two, three, or four bottles of red wine once per quarter. You can save 50% on your first shipment when enrolling in an ongoing subscription of the Signature Series. Use our exclusive coupon code WCRHALF to see the discount at checkout. Learn more about the Signature Series

The Aged Cabernet Series highlights beautifully-aged Cabernet Sauvignon from California's top Cab-producing regions. Expect a lot of Napa and Alexander Valley in these shipments. Each wine has been properly cellared at the winery before being transferred to the warehouse at The California Wine Club. The wines are meant to be drunk soon after arrival, but we'd wait 6-8 weeks for these bottles to get over the shock of transport after their long sleep in the cellar. You can save 50% on your first shipment when enrolling in an ongoing subscription of the Signature Series. Use our exclusive coupon code WCRHALF to see the discount at checkout. Learn more about the Aged Cabernet Series

The Gold Medal Wine Club focuses primarily on California wine, specifically small-production wineries featuring high-quality wines that are otherwise hard to access. With a superior customer service team, the phone never rings more than three times and a person always answers (during business hours, of course). Gold Medal wine California wine subscriptions also make a great gift with their artist-designed gift boxes.

The Gold Series is The Gold Medal Wine Club's value-focused wine subscription. Two great quality California wines go out in each shipment, helping you discover the great winemaking and grape growing happening in California. Gold Medal doesn't offer as many "deals" but their everyday pricing is a little lower than the competitors so you don't have to hunt for a deal. They do reward buying in volume, so upgrade to four bottles per shipment or pre-pay for 6 or more months to get discounts when you order. Learn more about the Gold Series

The Garagiste Series is their newest wine subscription box which features TINY production wines from California's up-and-coming winemakers. Everybody has to start somewhere and Gold Medal finds these new winemakers and wineries and brings their wine to you directly, most of them can't get distribution through stores and restaurants because they don't produce enough wine. For unprecedented access to the latest and greatest, we recommend this club highly. Learn more about the Garagiste Series

The Pinot Noir Series is a wine subscription designed to keep even the pickiest Pinotphiles well-stocked and happy. Beautiful Pinot Noir from California's top Pinot regions like the Russian River Valley, Carneros District, Sonoma's North Coast, Santa Ynez, and the Central Coast will delight when they're delivered to your door. Expect surprises from lesser-known areas with great winemakers showing off Pinot's special characteristics. Learn more about the Pinot Noir Series

The Diamond Series is Gold Medal Wine Club's top-tier wine subscription featuring the pinnacle of California winemaking from cult winemakers and sold-out productions. If you're fortunate enough to be able to afford these wines as your regular selections, you won't be disappointed, but we love to recommend these super-luxe wine clubs for those whose cash flow isn't as robust, too, because there is always a special occasion for which these wines will add the perfect complement. Learn more about the Diamond Series

Overview: Winc set out to change the wine industry by finding new ways to get better value to wine drinkers in the under $15 range, and boy have they ever. By delivering unprecedented value at $13 a bottle and personalized selections geared for every palate, Winc is a standout wine of the month club. If you're ready for more sophisticated wines, you can upgrade to Winc Select. Either way, you can save even more money by participating in their myriad rewards programs.

What We Love: We love how they go above and beyond to reward loyal customers with substantial savings and invitations to a premium level program. No other wine club offers this level of loyalty rewards, or this much fun! Also, as time has passed under wine director Ryan Zotovich, the selection of premium wines has both grown in selection and quality.

Wine Club Gift Info: When you give a Winc subscription, you are giving wine credits which can be redeemed by your favorite wine lover. They'll then set up their own account so Winc's personalization engine can get to work on learning what they love. Opt for a fancy gift announcement on the big day for a little extra dough.

Overview: Naked Wines isn’t really a wine club the way you think of one, but it’s a personalized wine buying service that you pay into on a monthly subscription so… we treat it like one. It also happens to be the most interesting wine club we’ve come across in a while.

What We Love: The list of things we love about Naked Wines is long, but here are some of our favorite bits: the wines we tried were excellent and priced exceptionally well; the winemakers interact with commenters on a regular basis; you can make this wine club anything you want it to be.

Overview: A wine club featuring hand-picked tiny-production wines from Napa, Sonoma, and other northern California wine regions. This “mom and pop” wine seller focuses on wines produced by well-known winemakers and made of grapes from premium vineyards.

What We Love: Their wine selection is a veritable who’s who of famous winemakers, especially their creative side projects. There aren’t many wine clubs featuring this “new California” ethos and they’re as rare as the wines they ship.

Overview: Grapeseed Wine started out as a way to have customers help fund one-time wine productions by acclaimed winemakers, but now it's a wine club, too. Get preferred pricing on all of their new releases and enjoy helping stellar winemakers stretch their winemaking creativity.

What We Love: We're big fans of any group that has exclusive wines because they produced them (as opposed to buying out a full production of someone else's wine)

Overview: Napa Valley is famous for Cabernet Sauvignon, but there is a substantial amount of other wine being grown and produced in Napa that's also very good. The same growing conditions, the same winemakers, but we're seeing great red blends, other single-varietal reds, and of course, terrific white wines, too! This wine club ships Napa wine every other month.

What We Love: Who doesn't love getting world-class Napa wine at bargain prices? While Napa Cab often fetches upwards of $60 a bottle, these other Napa wines delight at just $25 a bottle.

Wine Club Gift Info: If you want to give a wine of the month club as a gift this year, this is a great choice for red wine lovers, especially Napa red wine lovers. Give three months or more and the gift is presented in a fun box. Also, our readers can save 10% on all pre-paid gift memberships with coupon code BESTWINE, worth at least $22.