The 9 Best Affordable Wine Subscriptions

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white only. They also offer rosé and sparkling wine.

Winc offers vino from a broad spectrum of regions, grape varieties, blends, and styles, with a heavy focus on California. If you want to spend more, you can as they offer a number of interesting premium bottles priced $16 and up.

You pick or they pick. While you can rely on Winc’s algorithm to pick booze for your palate, you can also hand pick every bottle in every box you receive. Members receive a special discount on everything they buy, compared to full retail prices available via the website to nonmembers and at brick-and-mortar stores.

Why Give This: Breadth of wine styles and regions, personalized experience, and convenient online account management. For the health-conscious, Winc offers organic, vegan, natural, and low alcohol wines, too.

Upgrade to a printed gift announcement (pictured). You can have it sent to yourself or directly to your recipient.

The printed notice costs $6 to send and arrives via FedEx Ground. Spend $20 to FedEx Overnight. Orders are shipped Monday through Friday. For same day processing your order must be submitted by 11:00 AM PT.

Waited Until the Last minute? It’s free to send a gift notice via email, but be warned, it is sent immediately when you buy the gift.

Choose between red, white, dry, sweet, pink, and sparkling wine — you name it.

They have an abundance of choices under $15 a bottle — 68 different options when we checked on October 4, 2019. If you feel like a splurge they have options up to $45 for special occasions.

Nakedwines.com is very concerned with offering fair prices for what they sell, but they’re also concerned with treating their Angels (members) as fairly as possible. For example, if they drop the price on a wine you’ve already bought, they’ll automatically refund you the difference, no effort required on your part.

Since you pick your own wine, you determine how many bottles are in each box and when you get them. Six bottles in your box gets you free shipping. There are so many reasons to love Nakedwines.com and we outline them all in our full Nakedwines.com review.

We do not recommend Nakedwines.com for wine subscription gifts as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment.

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white only. They also offer rosé.

Firstleaf features large-production wines that are consistent and palate-friendly. Compared with similarly-priced subscriptions, we think their booze is sort of average, despite all of the award-winning bottles they offer. They do offer a huge selection of varieties and wine regions for you to try out.

Firstleaf is perfect for new-to-wine drinkers starting to explore the world of vino, drinkers who want easy-drinking everyday quaff at an affordable price, and budding enthusiasts who are curious to discover new grapes that fit their tastes.

We do not recommend Firstleaf for wine gifts as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment. Try these subscription wine gifts instead.

You can choose red, white, or a mix of both for your deliveries.

The selection is International with a blend of vino made in the US, Europe, South America, and Australia/New Zealand. Each shipment is well balanced among styles and regions.

Wine Insiders stands out by bringing convenience to the membership experience. In addition to being able to fully manage your account online, they make it easier to manage your deliveries, too. FedEx offers a program where customers can automatically route packages to local stores for pickup if it’s convenient. Wine Insiders is the only wine subscription which integrates this option into your sign-up process, so you don’t need to manage each delivery separately.

Why Give This: A good quality, affordable wine subscription gift. It’s a wonderful way to introduce someone to the world of wine that exists beyond the grocery store and make sure they’re always well-stocked. Online details for shipments include: some basic information about the grapes and the wine regions, tasting notes, and basic food pairing suggestions.

Try the Martha Stewart Wine Club instead. The two clubs choose from the same pool of wines, but the Martha Stewart wines are then curated by Martha herself. Note: Martha’s wine clubs are delivered every six or eight weeks instead of every 12 weeks.

Waited Until the Last minute? No worries! Wine Insiders emails the gift recipient when you order, so you can give the gift on the big day.

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white only.

Wired For Wine sources what the critics love so you have one less thing to think about. Their online store features hundreds of well-rated bottles including reds, whites, and everything else you can think to drink.

Wired For Wine picks the selection in your shipments. Like all top-rated wine subscriptions on our site, they offer a full satisfaction guarantee within 30 days of receipt. If you don’t like a bottle you receive, they’ll work with you to find a suitable replacement. Though we can’t imagine you’ll ever use it.

We do not recommend giving the 90+ Wine Club as a gift as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment. Try these wine subscription gifts instead.

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white only.

The California Wine Club only works with small family wineries. The breadth and depth of what’s available for them to source is surprising, but it doesn’t include the likes of Napa Cab. They find the gems in out-of-the-way growing regions like Paso Robles, Lodi, El Dorado, and beyond.

Their experts pick all of the bottles in your shipments — you can choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white wine only. When you join (or give) one of their memberships, you get access to a personal wine consultant who can help with food and wine pairing suggestions as well as help finding options that fit your palate. They help customers with every type of service issue you can imagine — from rerouting shipments, placing vacation holds, and replacing bad bottles, to getting assistance with wine country travel plans.

We do not recommend giving the Case Club as a gift as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment. Try these wine subscription gifts instead.

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white only. They also offer rosé.

Tasting Room makes recommendations for bottles you’ll like based on how you’ve previously rated their wines, but you also can personalize your deliveries. There is no limit to how many changes you can make and everything in their online store is available to put in your wine box.

Your membership starts with receiving a wine tasting kit of six mini bottles and completing the tasting survey online. When you sign up, you are automatically subscribed in their 6-bottle membership. Your first shipment after you rate the goodies in your tasting kit is 6 bottles, but after that you can upgrade to 12 bottles per shipment. The price per bottle is the same whether you choose 6 or twelve bottles

One area Tasting Room excels at is convenience. They use UPS for delivery, but have upgraded their account so you get premium delivery features. Primarily, you can set an alternative pickup location at checkout if you won’t be home to sign for deliveries.

We do not recommend giving Tasting Room as a gift as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment. Try these subscription wine gifts instead.

Choose a mix of red and white, red only, or white and rosé only.

Unlike other wine subscriptions on this list which source in bulk and then label it to fit their brand, Wine Awesomeness sources from independent wineries all around the world. They like vino that’s interesting and made well. Their online store includes selections like Sangiovese, Red blends, Tempranillo, Vermentino, White blends, and Pecorino.

Their themed shipments are really fun. Past themes include Tapas, BBQ, Do It Yourself, Beach, Shades of Pink, Date Night, and more. We’re pretty impressed with Wine Awesomeness and how much value they offer for a really low price.

Choose 1, 3, 6, or 12 months for your gifts and 3 or 6 bottles per shipment.

You’ll need to choose whether you will let your recipient manage the account or you will do it yourself when you buy a gift. We recommend letting your recipient manage their account because they’ll be able to manage their deliveries and update their preferences. Be aware, they increase the price by 10% when you let the recipient manage the subscription because local taxes might apply and you don’t want your recipient to get stuck footing the bill for those.

Since they don’t allow personalization, WSJwine selects wine that will appeal to the most people. They rely on mellow versions of favorite grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Malbec, and Sauvignon Blanc. By mellow, we mean low acidity, medium to light body, no harsh tannins, and not terribly fruity. We often find the wine a little on the sweeter side, particularly the reds.

Much of the criticism of the WSJwine wine club centers around their billing practices and poor customer service. We haven’t experienced that ourselves, but there are plenty of reports of it online. If you understand that the great introductory offer includes a commitment to join their club, and that you have to cancel your membership BEFORE they charge your credit card for a shipment, you’ll be fine.

We do not recommend giving the WSJwine club as a gift as they don’t offer any gift presentation or provide a custom message in the first shipment. Try these wine club gifts instead.