The 9 Best Mother's Day Wine Club Gifts

Wine enthusiasts, sommeliers, and wine critics pretty much agree on one thing — the most interesting wines are made in small batches at (usually) small wineries. This is why The California Wine Club only offers wine from these hidden gems. Learn more about their small, family wineries in California.

All gifts, from 1-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly. Order by May 1 for guaranteed delivery.

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Wooden Crate. Give a gift of at least two months and use code CRATE to have the first shipment presented in a wooden crate.

Bonus Bubbly. Gift a gift of three months or longer and Mom will get a bonus bottle of sparkling wine in her first shipment.

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A membership at The California Wine Club has a lot to offer in addition to great wine. Their "Love It" Guarantee will replace any bottle your Mom doesn’t love, Mom gets a personal wine consultant, and she’ll love the full-color magazine highlighting the wines in each shipment.

Where the first wine club on this is about California wine, this one has a global perspective. Sometimes California wines are included, but wines I recently tried include a Portuguese white blend, a South African Chenin Blanc, and a Cabernet Franc from Argentina. They really go out of their way to source wine most Americans will find unusual, but only from reliable producers respected for quality.

All gifts, from 2-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly. Bottles in the first shipment come wrapped in reusable organza wine bags.

A unique feature of this wine club gift is the ability to pay as you go. You can plan to give a gift of 2+ months and only pay when the wine ships each month. They do not offer one-time gifts.

If you want it to start sometime other than "immediately," you can choose a month for shipments to begin. In case Mom is traveling in May and won’t be home to receive a wine shipment.

Last minute? You can customize a letter to print or email to your Mom so she has something to open on Mother’s Day.

The International Wine of the Month Club is one part of the Monthly Clubs line-up. In addition to four different wine clubs, they also offer a bunch of other high-end monthly clubs. These include: several subscriptions for beer, two cheese subscriptions, two chocolate subscriptions, a floral bouquet subscription, and two hand-rolled cigar subscriptions. You can Design Your Own Club by combining any and all of these into a custom subscription gift with their somewhat-easy-to-use online tool.

I have had the pleasure of trying many wines from SomMailier (13), and even though I don’t always love red French wine, I found each interesting and distinctive. Some highlights include: his very popular Le Fleur des Pins white Bordeaux blend from Graves, a 2016 Cab-dominant red blend from Graves in Bordeaux, a Chardonnay from Arbois in Jura, a traditional red Rhône blend from Lirac, and a Corsican Vermentino.

Choose three, six, or twelve bottle shipments delivered quarterly. Gifts include detailed cards about the wines and a fun gift box.

SomMailier comes with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee and an exclusive wine tour of Laurent’s family’s wineries in Bordeaux if Mom is heading that way.

Laurent runs on a narrow profit margin, keeping the costs as low as he can, because he believes Americans need to taste these exceptional French wines from small producers that otherwise wouldn’t get their wines to the US.

Gold Medal Wine Club looks for award-winning and point-scoring wines across California’s small wineries. The white wine selection is Chardonnay heavy, but includes Viognier and some interesting blends. The red wine selection showcases expected Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, but also gets adventurous with Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Dolectto, Petite Sirah, and more.

All gifts, from 1-12 shipments, include a personalized note at no extra charge. Gifts are available monthly, every other month, or quarterly. Bottles in the first shipment come wrapped in reusable organza wine bags.

An exclusive deal just for my readers, you can seriously upgrade your gift for free when you give a gift of at least 3-months using this link. Mom will get a bonus bottle of wine ($20+ value), a free artist-designed gift box ($7.99 value), and a free customized gift card.

Last minute? You can customize a letter to print or email to your Mom so she has something to open on Mother’s Day.

Gold Medal curates wine clubs differently than The California Wine Club. The latter prefers wines that are crowd pleasers, which means most of their selections are balanced and showcase high-quality fruit. Gold Medal takes a different approach — they want every wine to be interesting and engaging, often eschewing "familiar" wine grapes and styles unless they are a exceptional examples (like Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir).

Gold Medal does not offer a stellar Satisfaction Guarantee. They will replace damaged or corked bottles, but they won’t replace something Mom didn’t like.

There is a lot of hype around natural wine. For certain wine drinkers — maybe even you — the allure is simple: fun wine produced by good people in a way that only inflicts minimal harm on the planet. What I think gets lost in all the hype is that these wines are also (typically) more interesting than the average Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay rolling of Napa, Bordeaux, and Burgundy. With Plonk, Mom will get to taste a huge variety of wines she has probably never heard of, which is a good thing.

Etty has never been big on gift pomp and circumstance (there are gift notification options), so if Mom is low key and doesn’t need a big to-do, this wine club gift will fit her vibe just fine.

I always enjoy the Plonk wines I receive and my sister-in-law loves Plonk so much she couldn’t even wait until she gave birth before she restarted her membership (she waited to drink it).

Organic Wine Exchange carries a range of affordable organic wines from around the world. Broad strokes categories include red, white, rosé, sparkling, and sweet wines (a small selection). The inventory reflects the parts of the world where organic wine is a priority — primarily Italy, Spain, France, and California (especially Mendocino). I tried a selection of six wines from Organic Wine Exchange and found them to better than I expected.

You can give a prepaid wine club subscription of 3, 6, or 12 bottles and have it delivered monthly or quarterly. You can choose red wine, white wine, or a mix — or you can customize it to special region, just rosé and bubbles, whatever you like, in the Special Requests field. Shipping is free.

Insider tip: Upgrade to more bottles! 6-bottle memberships are discounted 15% and 12-bottle memberships are discounted 20% from the 3-bottle prices. These discounts are stackable with the 10% off coupon code WC10X3!

While every single wine at Organic Wine Exchange is indeed made with organic grapes, they also offer several additional subscription options — all of which can be customized to suit your Mom’s preferences — including biodynamic, no-sulfites added, and a vegan wine club.

I wax poetic in my review, but this Champagne club is designed to showcase the premium wine side of Champagne, not just the premium price tag it usually carries. A mix of grower Champagne (otherwise known as récolrant manipulant) and reserve level offerings (including Vintage bottlings) from interesting Champagne houses. I found my new favorite Champagne in my first shipment from this club.

A quarterly club, you can send 1, 2, 4, or 8 shipments of killer Champagne to Mom and ensure she has a bottle every week for the next two years.

The reality of curating a wine club these days is that it is hard to pin down exactly what each future shipment is going to cost. Wine Access typically handles this by charging a variable fee for each wine shipment in their subscriptions. For gifts, because it is easier for you to pay everything up front, they offer gift recipients a store credit for any money you spent that didn’t end up paying for wine shipments. How refreshingly ethical of them!

I was especially impressed with the quality of wines in this incredibly affordable wine subscription. At just $20/bottle, shipping included, Mom can try the best of what California, Oregon, and Washington offer. My shipment included an impressive Courtney Benham Cabernet Sauvignon, a killer field blend from Three wine company (Matt Cline), a delectable Pinot Noir drinking way above its price tag, and a fascinating white blend from one of Washington’s best producers.

A quarterly club, you can send 1, 2, 4, or 8 shipments of the Sunset selection to Mom to help her level up her at-home wine and food game without breaking your budget.

The reality of curating a wine club these days is that it is hard to pin down exactly what each future shipment is going to cost. Wine Access typically handles this by charging a variable fee for each wine shipment in their subscriptions. For gifts, because it is easier for you to pay everything up front, they offer gift recipients a store credit for any money you spent that didn’t end up paying for wine shipments. How refreshingly ethical of them!

MYSA thoughtfully curates a selection of "familiar" natural wines alongside lesser-known producers and styles. Their store is a great source of natural Orange wine (which means it has intentionally been exposed to oxygen, not that it’s made from oranges), too. You will find wines without capsules (extraneous plastic or foil which covers the cork), wine in ceramic bottles, and wine from important wine regions like the country of Georgia where wine likely originated.

If your Mom is forever young at heart and wants to drink like the cool kids, this is the perfect wine subscription gift for her.

MYSA offers a configurable Natural Wine Club Gift subscription. You can choose a mix of everything in 3, 6-, or 12 bottles or you can specialize with an Orange Natural Wine club or a Red Natural Wine club.

All clubs can be given as gifts from 1-12 months, and all are delivered monthly.

Holly Berrigan, the founder at MYSA, is on a mission to educate consumers about natural wine and to make it more approachable. One way she does this is using her "classic to funky" gauge, and another is with her extensive natural wine and food pairing guide.