Club W is an online company based out of California, they mail purchased wine in cases of three bottles to your home. It's pretty straightforward, you create your account on ClubW.com and select three bottles of wine, then check out! Club W makes it all fun with recommendations, promotional offers, and online extras.
What do I mean by that? How does it work?
The recommendations come a few different ways. First, when you make your account for the first time they will have a little quiz to take, the first of the fun things that Club W has to offer. Based on this quiz, Club W will recommend three bottles of wine. Then you are able to choose those or any bottle of wine available on their site. Featured wines are marked down to $13 and the variety to choose from changes on the regular. Curator's Choice wines are marked $14+ and of course, the variety changes regularly. Once you have received your wines in the mail, log back in to Club W to rate them! These ratings are how Club W tailors their next recommendations, which we are not required to follow, you can still order any three wines of your choosing regardless of the recommendations. Their emails also tote:
| "We want you to be happy. |
| Don't love a wine we recommend? That's okay, we'll replace it with another at no charge. Does your liquor store do that? ...Didn't think so." |
The promotional offers seem to keep coming. You may or may not consider the displayed mark downs on the website as promotional pricing. What I am really referring to is Club W's offer to buy us all ;] a bottle of wine. They have been advertising the first bottle is free for all new members with promotional code and the promo slogans "The first bottle is on us" and "Let us buy you a bottle". The catch is that you must purchase three bottles at a time, so you still have to pay for two plus shipping. They drew my to their website with the enticement of a better offer: From Influenster free for testing purposes included in the Bella Voxbox is a promo code for a free bottle of wine with free shipping. That is with the $13 wine a savings of $20. I would still need to pay for the other two bottles coming out to about $28 after tax for all three bottles and shipping. To me that is more expensive than some cheap wine I can get at the grocery store, worth it for some new tastes in a elegant package delivered to my door? I think so! Getting mail is fun. Unfortunately I am just coming off of medical leave of absence at work, and after going so many months with no pay check due to this I just can't Spring4Wine right now.
So I wondered, how long will my promo code last? There was no expiration date. So I signed up for the website and took the quiz, and went through all the way to the final check out to get the experience. I can say the website is a pleasure to navigate. I am no longer concerned with my promo code expiring either. Since I have made my account and opted into emails from Club W I have received many emails with the first bottle free offer, some that cover shipping too and some that don't. Promo codes cannot me combined and I do not know what they might offer after the first box of three has been purchased.
Club W did show their patriotic side this Memorial Day weekend. To celebrate the weekend they advertised and emailed out a promo code for two bottles of free wine that could be used this passed weekend only. They may have new holiday promotionals in the future, only time will tell. For fun ideas to go with your weekend party Club W is a one stop shop with their online extras.
Without having yet made a purchase I've been able to enjoy Club W with their blog The Juice at Juice.ClubW.com. On this blog site they have Stories, Recipes, the Tastemakers, and Jargon. Starting from the bottom, the Jargon section is full of definitions for all your wine terminology, even terms you may not have thought of, to really understand all the ins and outs of wine selection and tasting. The Tastemakers shows us all of the wine tasters that make up Club W with a little bit of their background as it applies to wine tasting. Fun to get to know a bit about the individuals that make it all work and really helps us know more about Club W in general aside from just a place to buy wine online. Under Recipes there are 27 pages of tantalizing recipes and suggested wines to pair with each one. Not to mention the recipes come with gorgeous photos.
The final section on the blog is Stories, where they have subsections food, drink, and life. Here you will find blog posts that are fun, inspiring, informational, and full of tips. And yes, they are all wine related in some way. If you enjoy reading or looking at pictures, I recommend checking out their website for that at least. The more I see of Club W the more I like it, and I look forward to trying out some of their selection the next time I Spring4Wine!
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