International Wine Club Premier Series August 2016 Review & Coupons

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IMG_9189The International Wine of the Month Club sends its subscribers two wines each month, either two reds, two whites or one of each. Each estate-bottled, limited-production wine selected for shipment is chosen by a large panel of tasters, including both experts and lay wine enthusiasts, to ensure that each bottle will be a crowd pleaser. When you sign up, you have a choice of three levels of wine: Premier Series, Masters Series or Collectors Series. The Premier Series is the basic limited-production, estate-bottled offering. The Collectors Series is the most expensive, most exclusive offering. The Masters Series ships one bottle from the Premier Series and one bottle from the Collectors Series each month. The wines included in this review were from the Premier Series.

IMG_9190Your first shipment will include not only your wine and cellar notes, but also various welcome letters that explain what the club is and how it works.

After traveling around the world and scouting out the best wines available, Don Lahey submits his favorite wines to a two-tiered tasting panel for review. After consulting these panels of experts and lay alike, the best-loved wines get included in the club and shipped to people’s homes. For those who enjoy the wines and would like to purchase more, the International Wine of the Month club makes it especially easy to order more at a discount (or other wines, for that matter!). Additional discounts are available for those who order in bulk.

I especially love how the International Wine of the Month Club is affiliated with other clubs. As such, you can easily switch your monthly subscription between wine, cheese, flowers, chocolate, beer and cigar subscriptions. Wine for your birthday, chocolates for Valentine’s Day and flowers for Easter are all doable with this one subscription. How cool! (I’m secretly wishing for monthly deliveries of wine, cheese, flowers AND chocolate, but alas, four monthly subscriptions are outside of my budget!)

IMG_9191I love how the wines arrive well-packaged in recyclable inserts.

This month’s shipment included a red wine from California and a white wine from Chile!

Each of the two wines arrives with comprehensive tasting notes, including recipes for suggested food pairings. Each set of cellar notes provides a nice introduction to both the winery and the appellation where the grapes are grown (as all bottles in the club are estate grown and bottled, this is usually the location of the estate).

IMG_9309I enjoyed Paraiso’s 2010 Monterrey County Santa Lucia Highlands West Terrace Pinot Noir ($23.48 each for reorders based on the cost of 2) very much! Boasting a lot of berry flavors along with some spice, my husband and I enjoyed this with a dinner of roasted chicken and vegetables. The Smith Family Wines (of which Paraiso is a member) have received the Sustainability in Practice designation.

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I enjoyed Mayu’s 2015 Pedro Ximenez ($21.98 each for reorders based on the cost of 2) as well! This was my first time ever drinking a Pedro Ximenez and it was very refreshing! It was light with bright acidity. Boasting a lot of citrus flavor, I drank this happily. It would be the ideal wine to take on a picnic. Produced from grapes grown at an exceptionally high elevation, this wine possesses a rather unique character. While long on the finish, if you chill it too much, it almost tastes of water as it sits on your tongue. It’s best to serve it only moderately chilled. Although I liked this a lot more than I like most Sauvignon Blancs, this wine did evoke memories of drinking Sauvignon Blancs for me.

I really enjoyed these two bottles of wine, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the International Wine of the Month Club! The wines I have received have come from all around the world. They have included new varietals to me, and yet I have enjoyed every one of them. I’m thrilled that the International Wine of the Month club has challenged me to branch out and try new things. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with this wine club, it’s that great wine is available for a reasonable cost, but it helps to have a team of experts do the scouting for you. Both of these bottles were great, and I look forward to what I hope are many more months of discovery ahead!

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The Subscription: International Wine Club of the Month
The Description: Each month receive Two Bottles of wine. Each from a different International Winery.Choose one red and one white, or two reds. Also included are Cellar Notes detailed wine profiles with comprehensive tasting notes, detailed vineyard histories and suggested food pairings.
The Price: $47.95 per month
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