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We've reviewed over 45 different Italian wine clubs over the last 12 years and found the following clubs to be the absolute best in regards to wine club pricing, Italian wine quality, customer service and local wine education. We're always on the lookout for new Italian Wine Clubs, so if you find one that is superb, please let us know. In the meanwhile, we hope you enjoy your new wine club membership. |
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Overall Rating:  Phenomenal
Formerly known as the 4 Seasons Wine Club, the Laithwaites Wine Club was an easy choice for the #1 position for this year's Best Italian Wine Clubs. They offer outstanding pricing (only $5.84 a bottle), some superb Italian wines, excellent customer service and an awesome FREE gift that makes this one of the most popular wine club gifts as well. Not every wine you receive is of Italian origin, but the ones we have received from Italy were easily 90+ point wines in our book. |
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Wine Quality: Phenomenal
Every quarter the Laithwaites Wine Club sends out a new 12 bottle shipment and so far, every quarter, we've been ecstatic with the high-quality Italian wines we've received. Like we mentioned above, the Italian wines we have received were easily 90+ point wines in our book. |
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Wine Education: Phenomenal
Laithwaites also does an excellent job of educating you on each and every Italian wine they send you. You'll learn what region of the country the wine came from, what the growing season was like that gave the wine it's unique spark, how it was harvested and what was done differently to make the wine so unique and delicious. |
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Pricing: Phenomenal
The Laithwaites Wine Club ranked highly in our Best Wine Club list as well for they're amazingly low prices of only $5.84 a bottle. Like other wine clubs, they also charge a $19.99 shipping and handling fee that delivers your wine in about 7 days via FedEx. |
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Overall Rating:  Outstanding
The Celebrations Wine Club placed 2th on our Best Italian Wine Clubs list for being the only wine club out there to offer an Italian only wine club. The owner of the wine club does all the tasting and buying on location in Italy! What a great job, huh? No other wine club can make that claim. If you love Italian wines, and are willing to pay extra for them, then Celebrations Italian Wine Club is for you. |
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Wine Quality: Outstanding
The Celebrations Italian Winemaker Reserve Super-Premium Red Wine Club definitely deserves 5 stars, but at $87 a bottle, its a bit too far out of reach for most people. The most commonly purchased Italian Wine Club of theirs is the Italian Artisan Series that runs $17 a bottle and easily deserves 4 stars for wine quality. |
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Wine Education: Outstanding
We really like how the owner of the Celebrations Wine Club, Anna Maria Knapp, presents her Italian Winery of the Month newsletter. She highlights the age of the winery (usually back to the 1600s with most Italian wineries), she details the region it came from, the unique qualities of that area (such as climate and soil specifics) and how that all had an effect on the wine you receive from her wine club. Here's a sample newsletter. |
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Pricing: Outstanding
Wine club pricing starts at $17 a bottle and goes all the way up to $87 a bottle depending on which wine club you sign up for. If you can afford it, the most expensive wine club membership (Italian Winemaker Reserve Super-Premium Red) is absolutely amazing and well worth the price. |
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| #3 |
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Overall Rating: Outstanding
Coming in at #3 on our Best Italian Wine Clubs list is the original Wine of the Month Club. This is the only wine club that has a panel of wine taste testers that go through 400 bottles of wine a month in order to find the best two to send to you. Out of all the Italian wines we've received so far, our favorites have been from Tuscany, Liguria, Piedmont and Sardinia. Not every bottle they send is from Italy, but every wine we've received so far has been amazing! You won't be disappointed by their exceptionally detailed wine education, affordable pricing, superb packaging (that makes a great presentation piece at dinner parties) and amazing customer service that we just can't stop raving about. |
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Wine Quality: Outstanding
Every bottle of Italian wine you receive from the Wine of the Month Club has been prescreened by a highly-trained panel of wine tasters that evaluate and compare their favorites out of the 400 bottles of Italian wine evaluated every month! The Wine of the Month Club is the ONLY Italian wine club that goes to such extremes to ensure you only receive the highest quality Italian wines available. |
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Wine Education: Outstanding
The Wine of the Month Club provides an enormous amount of information on the Italian wines you receive - more than most Italian wine clubs, that's for sure. As a member, you'll learn what's behind each Italian wines distinctive taste, balance and character, as well as all about the vineyard in Italy that created it. |
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Pricing: Outstanding
The Wine of the Month Club offers 3 different wine clubs that all include wines from Italy. Pricing starts at $19.98 a month for two bottles of wine: choose either two whites, two reds or one of each. For the quality of the Italian wine you receive, $9.99 a bottle is an fantastic price. |
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Overall Rating:  Excellent
The Cellars Wine Club doesn't have a dedicated Italian wine club, but they do have a phenomenal international wine club that does send us some great Italian wines throughout the year. We've enjoyed the wines we've received from the Cellars Wine Club so much, that if they did have a dedicated Italian Wine Club, we would surely be ranking them in the Top 3 Best Italian Wine Clubs. Read our full review of the Cellars Wine Club. |
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Overall Rating: Excellent
The Uncorked Ventures Wine Club came in 7th place this year for Italian wines as EVERY bottle is a 90+ point wine. In fact, they earned the #1 position this year in our 90+ point wine club reviews. However, we didn't rank them in the Top 5 Best Italian Wine Clubs as the majority of the wines in their wine club are from California. Read our full review of the Uncorked Ventures Wine Club. |
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Overall Rating:  Very Good
The Gold Medal Wine Club has a great International Wine Club called the "International Series" that brings ultra-premium wines from some of the world's greatest hidden wine country estates, straight to your door. These wine, which include wines from Italy, are very hard to find as they are rarely sold in stores in the United States. The wine club makes quarterly shipments of three specially selected wines (two different reds and one white) and costs $75 a quarter ($25 a bottle). Read our full review of the Gold Medal Wine Club. |
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