Wall Street Journal Wine Club - WSJWine Discovery Club
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I am far from considering myself a wine expert, but I do drink quite a bit of it and I know what tastes good to my untrained pallet. About a month ago I decided to sign up for the WSJ Wine Club through an advertisement that came with a Barnes and Nobles advertisement. Honestly I would rank that as my best decision so far this year (for future reference this article was written in 2010). They have a thing called "The Discovery Club from WSJwine" where people much smarter than myself select a case of 12 bottles of wines and send them to your house every 3 months (or more/less often depending on your needs).
I did quite a bit of research into the company online before signing up because even with a name like the Wall Street Journal attached to it, I still figured it might be a scam. There are many things online that aren't quite what they seem, for instance many of those free credit report sites actually end up charging you crazy monthly fees for credit protection and other useless services. Luckily WSJwine is very upfront, there are no ridiculous terms and conditions, just what you see on the front page of the website. You can cancel your membership at any time (I actually did this once just to test how easy it would be for this article, and it took me less than 2 minutes).
For disclosure purposes I am a third party affiliate of Direct Wines and I do not consider myself to be a wine expert, so treat my opinions like your neighbor down the street instead of the guy that writes the Wall Street Journal Wine column.
I am far from considering myself a wine expert, but I do drink quite a bit of it and I know what tastes good to my untrained pallet. About a month ago I decided to sign up for the WSJ Wine Club through an advertisement that came with a Barnes and Nobles advertisement. Honestly I would rank that as my best decision so far this year (for future reference this article was written in 2010). They have a thing called "The Discovery Club from WSJwine" where people much smarter than myself select a case of 12 bottles of wines and send them to your house every 3 months (or more/less often depending on your needs).
I did quite a bit of research into the company online before signing up because even with a name like the Wall Street Journal attached to it, I still figured it might be a scam. There are many things online that aren't quite what they seem, for instance many of those free credit report sites actually end up charging you crazy monthly fees for credit protection and other useless services. Luckily WSJwine is very upfront, there are no ridiculous terms and conditions, just what you see on the front page of the website. You can cancel your membership at any time (I actually did this once just to test how easy it would be for this article, and it took me less than 2 minutes).
For disclosure purposes I am a third party affiliate of Direct Wines and I do not consider myself to be a wine expert, so treat my opinions like your neighbor down the street instead of the guy that writes the Wall Street Journal Wine column.
WSJ Wine Discovery Club
Here's a taste of what currently comes in the introductory offer (Please note this won't always be up to date), see their website: WSJwine.com
- Warburn Estate Shiraz 2008 - I had a bottle a few nights ago, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
- Château Allegret 2008
- Stonewall Pinot Noir 2008
- DeLoach Private Collection Pinot Noir 2008
- Collezione di Paolo 2008
- Grande Réserve de Gassac 2008
- J Opi Malbec 2008 - My personal favorite so far, I am a huge fan of Argentinian Malbec.
- El Bombero 2008 - 2 Bottles
Wall Street Journal Wine Club Review
WSJWine Promo code in the link at the bottom of this paragraph
Overall I feel like this was a great way to treat myself, I love wine but don't really have the knowledge to go to a liquor store and pick one over another except for price. It is also very affordable, I cannot believe that I got 12 bottles of good wine plus one of those fancy wine openers for $70; based on the prices I found online for the wine and wine opener I saved about $90-130. It's kind of like Christmas except this way it comes 4 times a year :-).
I haven't had any issues with them, their customer service department is very friendly and helpful. You can cancel any time, and they have a full money back guarantee on every bottle they send you, so if you don't like something just give them a call and get a refund. Many of these wines are sold exclusively to WSJwine members, so it would be very hard to run across these randomly in the corner package store. So far I have tried the '07 Chateau Fontcaille Bellevue which was interesting since I had never had a French Bordeaux before, it had a very bold flavor (and was much better after getting air for a couple hours). I have also had the J Opi which honestly I prefer over the more popular and more expensive Trapiche that I have been drinking lately (both are South American Malbec).
If you decide to check them out use this link, it has the promo code "2132003" embedded into it by default and will bring you to the introductory offer that has the wine opener and 12 wines for $69.99: Wall Street Journal Wine Club Promo Code
I haven't had any issues with them, their customer service department is very friendly and helpful. You can cancel any time, and they have a full money back guarantee on every bottle they send you, so if you don't like something just give them a call and get a refund. Many of these wines are sold exclusively to WSJwine members, so it would be very hard to run across these randomly in the corner package store. So far I have tried the '07 Chateau Fontcaille Bellevue which was interesting since I had never had a French Bordeaux before, it had a very bold flavor (and was much better after getting air for a couple hours). I have also had the J Opi which honestly I prefer over the more popular and more expensive Trapiche that I have been drinking lately (both are South American Malbec).
If you decide to check them out use this link, it has the promo code "2132003" embedded into it by default and will bring you to the introductory offer that has the wine opener and 12 wines for $69.99: Wall Street Journal Wine Club Promo Code
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