The Wine Club

Last night we had one of our favorite neighbors join us for dinner to celebrate the holiday season so there was no better time to break out the bottles of wine we received as a gift from Gold Medal Wine Club. I don't know if you are familiar with wine clubs but basically you sign up and receive monthly shipments of wine. You can also have them shipped to people as gifts and well, who wouldn't want to receive wine as a gift? Just think of all the people who live far away from you that you could have wine sent to to celebrate different occasions. Pretty great idea, yes?

The wines are sold in different "series"; The Gold Series which is award winning small-production wines; The Platinum Series which is ultra-premium, rare, collectible wines; The Diamond Series which is luxury-premium, legendary wines; and The International Series which is hard-to-find imported wines of the world. The prices of the clubs vary depending on the series you select. The company also sends along a bunch of great literature which tells you about the wines and offers tons of information about wine in general. A great learning tool for those like me who know next to nothing about wine. :) I thought the newsletter was very well written, thorough and easy to read.

The wines we were given were a 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon and a 2004 Merlot. I'm not a Cabernet fan in general (ok - truth be told, I'm not a red wine fan in general) so after a sip or two, I left that one to Dakota. It's one of her favorite wines. We learned quickly that this particular wine really needed to "breathe" for a while but after a little bit, it was enjoyable. Dakota said that for the price, she has had others that she enjoyed more but if someone sent her a bottle, she sure wouldn't refuse it. The Merlot was more smooth and didn't require as much breathing time.

I would have loved to have received one of their white wines so that I could hog the entire bottle for myself but, but at least Dakota was happy to have most of the wine for herself. :) In fact, she is sitting next to me working on her laptop with a big glass of Merlot sitting next to her.

The next time you are wishing you could send a nice bottle of wine to someone, or find yourself wishing that you could have wine magically arrive at your doorstep each month, check out www.goldmedalwine.com