The 6 Best Mother's Day Wine Club Gifts

The California Wine Club prides itself on only working with small family wineries. Why? Because they generally work the hardest, their land and grapevines are their pride and joy, and they’re free to produce varieties and blends worth drinking — in other words, they make wine that is approachable and interesting.

In addition to handcrafted wines, gift subscriptions include: Uncorked® guide to each featured winery; a $25 Wine Credit; and a VIP Winery Tour and Tasting invitation.

All gifts, from 1-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly.

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Ways to Save

Give more shipments. Save on each shipment when you upgrade to 3-, 6-, or 12-shipment gifts.

Save 10% on your whole gift order with code YES10. Discount does not apply to shipping costs.

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Wooden Crate. Give a gift of at least three months and use code CRATE to have the first shipment presented in a wooden crate (pictured). Good for any club level.

Bonus Bubbly. Gift a gift of three months or longer and Mom will get a bonus bottle of sparkling wine in her first shipment. Good only for Premier Series.

Upgrade to Gift+ (pictured) to give Mom something before the first shipment of wine arrives. Will ship 2 business days after you order via US Priority Mail. $19 additional, available on all club levels.

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Last minute? You can customize a letter to print or email to your Mom so she has something to open on Mother’s Day.

Chock full of benefits, a membership at The California Wine Club has a lot to offer. They offer "Love It" Guarantee will replace any bottle the customer doesn’t love, provide a personal wine consultant, and produce the full-color magazine highlight the wines in each shipment. Coupled with even more benefits, this the best value wine club in its class.

Want to indulge her even more? The California Wine Club offers two premium wine clubs, a Pacific Northwest club, and an International Club, too.

Gold Medal Wine Club looks for award-winning and point-scoring wines across California’s small wineries. The white wine selection is Chardonnay heavy, but includes Viognier and some interesting blends. The red wine selection showcases expected Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, but also gets adventurous with Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Dolectto, Petite Sirah, and more.

All gifts, from 1-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly. Bottles in the first shipment come wrapped in reusable organza wine bags.

An exclusive deal just for my readers, you can seriously upgrade your gift for free when you give a gift of at least 3-months using this link.

With this offer: a bonus bottle of wine* ($20+ value), a free artist-designed gift box ($7.99 value), and a free customized gift card.

*As of April 9, 2022 the bonus bottle is a 2018 Porterhouse Cabernet Sauvignon blend from Lodi (retail price $35).

Ways to Save

Gold Medal does not offer discounts on their wine clubs (except in October for holiday Early Bird shopping). They price their wines below winery retail and that is as low as they want to go.

Give more. They do like to reward customers for bigger purchases. If you upgrade to a four-bottle subscription gift, you will save a little over $2 per bottle, and shipping only costs $1 more. You can also save 10% when you give a 12-month gift.

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PLUS! Bottle. In most months Gold Medal ships a third bottle of wine to customers who opt-in to their PLUS! program. These are typically even better quality than the already high-quality wines, but are available in such limited production they can’t ship them to all members. You add this to your gift when you configure it.

Higher-end Clubs. Gold Medal has an array of clubs you can upgrade to: Garagiste (micro production wineries, less than 1000 cases), Pinot Noir (high-end), Platinum and Diamond clubs, and an International Club with a gourmet adventure food package add-on.

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Last minute? You can customize a letter to print or email to your Mom so she has something to open on Mother’s Day.

Gold Medal curates wine clubs differently than The California Wine Club. The latter prefers wines that are crowd pleasers, which means most of their selections are balanced and showcase high-quality fruit. Gold Medal takes a different approach — they want every wine to be interesting and engaging, often eschewing "familiar" wine grapes and styles unless they are a exceptional examples (like Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir).

Gold Medal does not offer a stellar Satisfaction Guarantee. They will replace damaged or corked bottles, but they won’t replace something Mom didn’t like.

Where the first two clubs on this list focus on California wine, this one has a global perspective. Sometimes California wines are included, but recently featured wines include a 2019 Côtes du Rhône red blend, a South African Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon blend, a Chilean Pinot Noir, and a Greek Vidiano (white). They really go out of their way to source wine most Americans will find unusual, but only from reliable producers respected for quality.

All gifts, from 2-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly. Bottles in the first shipment come wrapped in reusable organza wine bags.

A unique feature of this wine club gift is the ability to pay as you go. You can plan to give a gift of 2+ months and only pay when the wine ships each month. They do not offer one-time gifts.

If you want it to start sometime other than "immediately," you can choose a month for shipments to begin. In case Mom is traveling in May and won’t be home to receive a wine shipment.

Ways to Save

Give more. Modest discounts are available for higher volume purchases, specifically more shipments. For 4+, 6+, and 12-shipment gifts you can use the discount codes SAVE10, SAVE15, and SAVE30 respectively.

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Higher-end Clubs. International Wine of the Month Club has an array of clubs you can upgrade to: the Collectors series is their most premium, the Masters series is a mix of the Premier and Collectors series, and for specialists, they offer a Bold Reds series.

You can Design Your Own Club by combining any and all of their other club options into a custom subscription gift with their somewhat-easy-to-use online tool. Click the Good To Know tab to learn more.

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Last minute? You can customize a letter to print or email to your Mom so she has something to open on Mother’s Day.

The International Wine of the Month Club is one part of the Monthly Clubs line-up. In addition to four different wine clubs, they also offer a bunch of other high-end monthly clubs. These include: several subscriptions for beer, two cheese subscriptions, two chocolate subscriptions, a floral bouquet subscription, and two hand-rolled cigar subscriptions.

You can Design Your Own Club by combining any and all of these into a custom subscription gift with their somewhat-easy-to-use online tool.

I have had the pleasure of trying many wines from SomMailier, and even though I don’t always love red French wine, I found each interesting and distinctive. Some highlights include: his very popular Le Fleur des Pins white Bordeaux blend from Graves, a 2016 Cab-dominant red blend from Graves in Bordeaux, a Chardonnay from Arbois in Jura, a traditional red Rhône blend from Lirac, and a Corsican Vermentino.

The wine is kind of expensive (around $37 a bottle for the three-bottle subscription, plus shipping), and not because the prices have been artificially inflated by too much demand. Between the French wine tariffs from 2020-2021 and more recent overseas shipping nightmares and inflationary pressures, Laurent’s costs have gone up. He runs on a narrow profit margin, keeping the costs as low as he can, because he believes Americans need to taste this exceptional French wines from small producers that otherwise wouldn’t get their wines to the US.

The wines for Martha Stewart’s wine club come from a company called Drinks.com, also responsible for Wine Insiders and Macy’s Wine Shop. Among their clubs I like Wine Insiders best, but Martha is a close second. I find the Wine Insiders wines are more interesting and diverse, whereas the Martha collection truly does reflect her preferences — the wines are easy-drinking, sometimes on the sweet side, and relatively uninspired. I received a selection of mostly Italian and French wines, with a couple of California wines. If Mom is really into red wine, I would take a pass on this club.

There are three ways to give a Martha Stewart wine club gift. You can use the regular sign-up process for the 12-bottle club and tell them it’s a gift or you can order a 6-bottle Year of Wine gift of either three shipments or four.

12-bottle Gifts: The page where you sign up is just like a non-gift wine club, but you have the ability to specify the subscription is a gift. That means you pay as you go instead of all up front. This is delivered quarterly and costs $159.98 plus tax. In addition to the quarterly shipments there are also an extra winter shipment and an extra summer shipment. You can cancel any time.

6-bottle Gifts: If you give a six-bottle "year of wine" gift, you’ll choose either three shipments or four and prepay for all the shipments at once. You get a little bit of a discount for ordering four shipments (~$280 total, plus tax) vs three ($225 total, plus tax).

Ways to Save

Opt for the 12-bottle gift. In addition to a steep discount on the first shipment (you pay just $89.88 plus tax), Mom will also get a free lever-pull corkscrew set ($60 value) in the second shipment.

One of my favorite features of the Drinks.com wine clubs is that you can specify an alternative delivery source when you sign up, so if you know Mom isn’t around much, you can pick a FedEx location nearby (the site helps you choose the one nearest to her home).

Organic Wine Exchange carries a range of affordable organic wines from around the world. Broad strokes categories include red, white, rosé, sparkling, and sweet wines (a small selection). The inventory reflects the parts of the world where organic wine is a priority — primarily Italy, Spain, France, and California (especially Mendocino).

There are two ways to give an Organic Wine Exchange gift.

Organic Wine Club Gifts: You can give a prepaid wine club subscription of 3, 6, or 12 bottles and have it delivered monthly or quarterly. You can choose red wine, white wine, or a mix — or you can customize it to special region, just rosé and bubbles, whatever you like, in the Special Requests field. Shipping is free.

Electronic Gift Cards: If you’re not sure what kind of wine Mom would like to receive you can order a gift card for her to spend however she wants.

Ways to Save

10% off Coupon. You can save 10% on gift subscriptions with coupon code WC10X3 at checkout.

Upgrade to more bottles. 6-bottle memberships are discounted 15% and 12-bottle memberships are discounted 20% from the 3-bottle prices. These discounts are stackable with the 10% off coupon!

While every single wine at Organic Wine Exchange is indeed made with organic grapes, they also offer several additional subscription options — all of which can be customized to suit your preferences — including biodynamic, no-sulfites added, and a vegan wine club.