It’s that time of year again. The twinkly lights are out, the décor is up, the festive music is on, and the malls are packed – everyone is out and about and searching for that perfect gift for everyone on their gift list. It’s the Holiday Season, and time to do something special for the loved ones in your life. If you’re tired of resorting to the cliché gift ideas (or if you have no idea where to begin), then why not step outside the box and surprise your friends and family with something different?

This year, Gold Medal Wine Club helps solve the dilemma with an assortment of new gift packages and wine clubs designed especially for everyone from the wine novice to aficionado. Wine makes a great gift because it’s not something that will be put away and forgotten about – it will immediately be opened, shared, and enjoyed with friends and family. What’s more is with a wine club gift, your recipients will have something to look forward to not just during the holidays, but throughout the year.

Wine Clubs also make a great gift for your boss in the office – or if you are the boss, think about giving wine to your best accounts, employees, and business partners. The Holiday Season is a time to look back on the success you’ve had over the past year, and thank those important people who helped you get there. What better way to show your appreciation and commemorate the year than with a special bottle of award-winning wine?

With a multitude of wine clubs out there, it can be hard to decide which one is the best fit – maybe your Dad is into those really prestigious wines with small production and top-of-the-line ratings, whereas your Son or Daughter might benefit from a wine club more catered to featuring “everyday wines” that still introduce their palates to nicer wines, but without the intimidation factor. With five different wine clubs to choose from, ranging in price point, wine varieties, and quality level, Gold Medal Wine Club is a one-stop-shop for everyone on your holiday gift list.

The most popular gift choice from Gold Medal Wine Club is the Gold Series wine club, featuring hard-to-find, medal-winning wines from small, family-owned California wineries. Each month, your recipient will receive two outstanding bottles, beautifully presented in gift-wrapped tissue and bows and a full color newsletter publication called “The Wine Press.” This exclusive publication presents information about the wines, the fascinating backgrounds of the winery owners, a behind-the-scenes tour of the vineyards, and special food pairing recipes direct from the winemakers themselves. Starting at just $35 per month, the Gold Series is a great value and truly an impressive gift.

Gold Medal Wine Club also offers upper-level and international wine clubs to help you find the right fit for everyone on your gift list. The Platinum Series features 90+ rated, ultra premium wines from California; the International Series highlights a different country with each shipment and offers a special add-on option of gourmet imported food items; the Pinot Noir Series is the perfect choice for the Pinot lovers in your life; and the Diamond Series selects only those most prestigious bottlings with legendary 93+ rated marks and serious “wow” factor. Sure to be enjoyed by any wine enthusiast on your list, the wine club offerings from Gold Medal Wine Club are just plain hard to beat.

For a limited time, find FREE Bonus Gifts (stainless steel corkscrews, neoprene totes, and Vinturi Aerators – just to name a few) included with various wine club gift options (www.GoldMedalWineClub.com/gift_guide). It’s an easy way to make that holiday gift extra special.

In business since 1992, Gold Medal Wine Club has the reputation as one of the leading independent wine clubs in the world – and for good reason. With unbeatable standards for quality and customer satisfaction, and consistency in offering simply incredible wines to their members at unbelievable discounts, this wine club gift is the choice for this year’s Holiday Season.

Place your orders by logging on to www.GoldMedalWineClub.com or calling 1-800-266-8888 to be sure your gifts will arrive in time for the Holiday.

Our annual Earlybird Special is in full swing, and this year we have SO many new specials and gift ideas for everyone on your holiday gift list. Whether you’re shopping for wine clubs, gift baskets, case packs or gift sets, we have you covered – and at seriously discounted prices. For a limited time, you can save up 46% off winery direct prices - that’s a value you won’t find anywhere else!

Savings at Gold Medal Wine Club have NEVER been this big, so take advantage of these incredible offers while you still can! Give 3 months of the Gold Series wine club for under $100 or peruse the Combo Case Packs for award-winning red wines and 93+ rated legendary bottles. Find a luxuriously wrapped Gift Basket filled with wine and gourmet treats from Napa Valley, or add on a FREE Gift Set to 12-month gifts of the Platinum Series wine club. These are just a few of this year’s amazing Earlybird Specials – check out the website for everything we have in store for you.

Shop early and save! Happy Holidays.

It’s that time of year again…our celebrated annual Champagne Special! This year we had the exclusive opportunity to import a world-class sparkler straight from one of France’s most established Champagne Houses – the Champange Charpentier Terre d’ Emotion Brut. This wine is perfect for holiday celebrations or toasting to any upcoming special occasion! With a unique fruity complexity of pear, peaches and mandarin, and a caressingly silk body bursting with freshness, you are sure to fall in love with this year’s special selection.

For a limited time (now until October 15th), order this exclusive import at especially low prices – up to 40% OFF regular retail! Order online here, or call us at 1-800-266-8888. With a limited number of cases available, we recommend ordering early! Cheers!

To Whom It May Concern,

As a high school teacher, I have enjoyed a wide range of “thank you” gifts from grateful parents. Receiving two bottles of Gold Medal Wine this year was by far the most fantastic present of all! Both bottles were stunning, especially the Balletto Pinot Noir. We enjoyed it with friends who commented repeatedly about the wine, asking how we chose it “among all the dozens of possibilities at Trader Joe’s.” Naturally, we boasted about our Gold Medal Wine Club gift. Choosing a special wine to enjoy for unique moments is often a challenge. We don’t splurge on extravagance very often. Going to your website, I was inspired to see that there are many options for people in our income bracket. We have now signed up for the Gold Medal Wine Club, and look forward to our first shipment. It will be fun to plan special meals around the arrival of our wine!

Thanks much!

Alethea & George

Ravi Instant Wine Chiller

Search no more, because Gold Medal Wine Club has an excellent selection of gadgets, tools, wine glasses, corkscrews, cookbooks, and more – guaranteed to please any wine enthusiast! Visit our online wine store today, and check out our latest additions, including the Ravi Instant Wine Chiller ($39.99), a revolutionary tool that immediately cools wine to the proper drinking temperature as you pour it. Its NEW for summer and already one of the best selling items on the market today!

Seriously Simple Cookbook

If cookbooks are what you’re in the market for, then take a look at “Seriously Simple”, a collection of creative dishes that are easy to master, yet still possess the elegance to impress your finest guests (and offered at just $24.95, it’s a serious steal!)

From Vinturi Aerators, Decanturs, and crystal wine glasses from Ravenscroft, we know you will be impressed with our top-notch selections. Visit our online accessories page today and start shopping!

Remember when you were little, and you spent all day working so hard at making that perfect gift for mom for Mother’s Day? It took hours of preparation and focused energy, which was, let’s be honest here, a bonus gift for mom that you were so happily–and quietly– working on your masterpiece… You poured your little heart and soul into it- a painting, a new ruler made from a stick, a sculpture of her favorite pet made from clay - Sometimes the end product resulted in that fateful question that helped decipher its meaning, “Oh..honey…it’s delightful! Tell me more about this ‘creation’!” But regardless of what you were making,  it was always going to be awesome because it was from the heart.

I remember one Mother’s Day, my little sister and I had the brilliant idea to create a photo album full of pictures of none other than her darling little angels. We were probably 7 & 5 years old at the time. I remember thinking that we couldn’t use mere paper for the album, because that was too flimsy. We needed something sturdier that would withstand the true test of time, as we were sure this was going to be kept for centuries to come. We always had an abundance of leather around the house, as mom designed leather wallets at that time. Perfect. For hours on end we locked ourselves in the back rooms and searched through endless family photo albums, pulling out pictures that we thought she would like. After making our selections, we glued them onto the leather “sheets” of the album pages, cut from her leather inventory. We bound the pages with small strips of leather from the same source. This present was going to be the end-all of amazing gifts.

As an adult looking back, I can just about imagine the absolute shock in her eyes as she unwrapped her homemade gift to find that her most favorite family pictures and portraits had been ripped from their resting places and glued, yes glued, onto soft leather album pages, captioned with our names in silver permanent marker, just in case anyone forgot. And as a bonus, this was done in the 80′s, before the age of digital cameras, and I’m certain those were the only copies of the prints. Just for you, Mom, and we did it all by ourselves.

Now, I’m sure that like all homemade gifts that children make for their parents, she did treasure it in the special way that only mothers can. To us, her smiling face and hugs in return were satisfaction enough that we had yet again brilliantly displayed how much we loved her on Mother’s Day (even though I never saw that album ever again…)

For the safety of household family portraits everywhere, kids grow up. As an adult, my ability to put gifts together has changed with my upgrade from the “50 cents-per-household-chore” budget.  But that same feeling remains – the desire to WOW mom with perfect gift that shows her that her little angel still loves her dearly.  Because of this, I was delighted to see the selections that Gold Medal Wine Club is offering for Mother’s Day this year. Check them out! Choose from gift baskets, gift packs or FREE items with purchase of a membership. My favorites are the gift baskets — such attention to detail. Plus, what mom can resist a basket that’s full of goodies designed especially for her?!

Gift Baskets, Gift Packs & FREE Gifts with Memberships!

Mother’s Day is May 9, just around the corner…. Give the gift of award-winning, hard-to-find wines this year,  and show her how much you love her without spending six hours terrorizing the family portraits with a gluestick!

It’s not too late to get your wine gifts delivered by Christmas.  Gold Medal is offering a free shipping upgrade to ensure that your gift gets there on time.

We have five exciting wine clubs to choose from.  They all make a great gift for that special someone in your life.

Gold Medal Wine Club’s online store features only award-winning wines, all of which are previous selections from each of our five wine clubs.  If you are looking for some great wines at deep discounts off of winery-direct prices, the Gold Medal Wine Club online store is the place to shop.  Because ALL of the wines in our store are award-winners, you won’t go wrong in choosing the perfect wine to accompany your holiday dinners or to bring as a gift for your favorite host.  Our wines are carefully selected from the best of California’s boutique wineries.  These wines are lovingly crafted by family-owned wineries that take pride in quality.  If you are already a Gold Medal Wine Club member, you will receive even greater discounts- up to 35% off.  Order now to get the best selection.

Yes, yes we know. Everyone is sick of hearing stories that begin with “In these tough economic times…..”. It has been a tough year for nearly everyone we know. Each of us has had to make some sacrifice, but we also need to remember that each of us has something to be grateful for as well. It is with this spirit of gratitude in mind that Gold Medal Wine Club invites you to start thinking about who you know that deserves a truly wonderful corporate gift this holiday season. It’s September now- it’s not too early to start thinking about it.

Perhaps you have an employee who graciously continued to work hard for you when she knew she wouldn’t be getting a raise this year. Maybe you have several clients who weathered out the storm with you and continued to send business your way to spite the economic crunch. What about that friend of yours who recommended your business to an acquaintance and it ended up turning into a large and profitable client? People like this are part of our lives and this year, more than ever before, they need to recognized.

Gold Medal Wine Club membership is a very special gift perfect for your employees, clients or good friends. Each month, Gold Medal selects two award-winning bottles of hard-to-find, boutique wines that make any day special. Your friends, colleagues, employees and clients will remember that you cared enough to give them a gift that keeps on giving-every month. These are no ordinary wines either. Most are not found in stores. They are small-production wines lovingly crafted by family-owned wineries. These are wines that have won awards, high marks or glowing accolades from highly respected wine critics.

Gold Medal offers special pricing and services for corporate gift giving. Volume discounts are available and shipments can be customized to meet your needs and budget. We have five different wine of the month clubs to choose from, for different palates and price points.

Why not enhance your corporate image and create instant goodwill? Give us a call (800-266-8888) or fill out our corporate gift form now to customize a wine club gift for all your favorite employees, friends and clients.

We would like to extend a thank you to all our wine club members. Your complete satisfaction with our wine selections, and willingness to recommend us to your friends and family has sustained us as America’s leading wine club since 1992. We are very grateful.

“I work at The DiCarlo Group in Atlanta with Laura Cegala. I’ve worked with
the owner of the agency–Tim DiCarlo–for almost 10 years. We have
represented Food & Wine magazine for about five years. As a surprise gift,
Tim signed me up for the two bottles of wine a month program.

My husband and I love all the wines we have had so far! Just the idea of
knowing we will get a new delivery every month is fun. We enjoy reading
about and sharing the wine with our friends. My husband was so impressed,
he has asked me for your website and plans to give the same gift to business
clients of his.

Just wanted to share with you how much we are enjoying Gold Medal Wine Club.”

Dian Wescott
Sales Associate

Please check out our ehow article on choosing a wine club gift.