Wine Club
Vintners Charitable Cooperative Wine Club Membership: 25% to your favorite charity!
- VCC offers semi-annual wine club with the artisan wines from our ever-growing list of Vintner Partners across the country. 25% of the total sale from each club shipment (excluding tax and shipping) will be donated to the charity of the customer’s choice.
- Here is a snap-shot of the wine club:
- Price: $175.00 maximum per shipment, excluding tax and shipping.
- Wine: 2-6 bottles of family-owned, boutique wine from artisan producers across the country.
- Shipments: Twice per year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
- Ship to states: To find out where the VCC Wine Club ships, please see the table below.
- Tax and shipping costs: Depending on your state, wine sales tax is between 4% and 12%, and shipping ranges between $15.00 and $25.00 per shipment.
- Charity: Choose your favorite charity from the pull-down menu on the payment page. If you don't see your charity listed, select "I don't see mine" and then complete the box below with the information listed below. VCC will not verify a nonprofit organization until an order has been placed requesting support for that organization. VCC will verify the information and email you a response usually within 24-48 hours. If the charity is to be verified, you must submit the following information:
Charity U.S. Address (including street, city, state and zip code, no P.O. Box)
Charity Telephone and Website address
Charity Contact Name, Title and Email address
Charity Employer Identification Number (EIN)
- Vineyards: Varies with each shipment so you receive an ever-changing variety of great wine.
- Payment: Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted.
- Credit cards: Charged at the time of club sign-up for the first shipment and then just prior to shipment for subsequent offerings.
- Cancellation: Cancel at any time by logging into your personal account.
- Tax-deduction: Please note that membership in this wine club and payments for wine are not tax-deductible.
- Problems: If you have a problem with your order, please call or email VCC at (888) 770-2448 ext.2 or info@charityvintner.org. Note that VCC’s hours of operation are Monday through Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm PST.
- As soon as you complete your online order for the club, you will receive a confirmation email from VCC. Just prior to a club shipment, you will receive a reminder email from VCC and a second email directly from the winery with tracking information and further details about your order.
- To find out about how a charity can participate and/or when we make the donation to your charity, please click on the How It Works tab above.
States Wine Club Ships To
VCC's Vintner Partners ship wine to select states in accordance with state laws. Many states prohibit out-of-state retailers from shipping wine to residents of their state. State laws on wine shipping are complex and under constant review, and we look forward to a day when all states open up to out-of-state retailers so we can offer you all our full assortment of products. In the interim, the VCC Wine Club can ship to the following states.| Alaska | District of Columbia | Iowa | Missouri | New Mexico | Oregon |
Washington |
| Arizona | Florida | Kansas | Montana | New York | South Carolina | West Virginia |
| California | Georgia | Louisiana | Nebraska | North Carolina | South Dakota | Wisconsin |
| Colorado | Hawaii | Maine | Nevada | North Dakota | Tennessee | Wyoming |
| Connecticut | Idaho | Michigan | New Hampshire | Ohio | Texas | |
| Delaware | Illinois | Minnesota | New Jersey | Oklahoma | Virginia |
Next Wine Club Shipment: April 2011
- Vineyard: COHO Wines, Napa, CA
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- Price: $152.00, plus tax and shipping
- Donation to your charity: $38.00 (25% of total sale of $152.00)
- Tax and shipping costs: Varies depending on your state.
- Wines:
- 1 bottle 2008 Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir
- 1 bottle 2006 SummitVine Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon
- 1 bottle 2006 Michael Black Vineyard Merlot
- Deadline to receive this shipment: March 28, 2011
- Shipping Date: April 4, 2011
The Wines
2008 Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir
Originally planted in the 1870’s, Stanly Ranch is the eastern most vineyard on the Napa side of the Las Carneros appellation. The original vineyard of 300 acres was the first to achieve critical acclaim for Carneros wines when it garnered medals from viticultural fairs sponsored in 1888. Louis M. Martini first purchased Carneros grapes in the 1930s from the Stanly Ranch, a part of which had miraculously survived the phylloxera infestation of the 1880s. In 1942, Martini purchased 200 acres of the Stanly Ranch and six years later he began Pinot Noir & Chardonnay clonal experimentation.
COHO has been making a Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir since our first vintage in 2002. We have been fortunate to purchase the oldest existing section of the vineyard that was planted around 1970. The Pinot Noir clone of this section, originally from Pommard in Burgundy, is named for Louis Martini who identified it during his years of field work as most suitable for the Carneros soils. As this portion of vineyard is going into decline because of age, we began in 2008 incorporating other sections that are planted with Dijon clones.
The vineyard sits just above the tidal marshes that flow into San Pablo Bay (which sits above the San Francisco Bay). Most afternoons during the growing season the warm to hot temperatures farther north in the Napa Valley act like a magnet drawing the cool breezes and fog from the bay. These cooling temperatures will began to bring relief to the vines in the afternoon and often not roll out until mid-morning the next day. This cooling blanket creates an ideal environment for the Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir to develop the spicy aromatics and complex black cherry and earthy flavors that characterize our COHO wine.
2006 SummitVine Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon: 93 Points by Wine Enthusiast
In 2004 we met Michael and Susan Klopka who had lovingly planted a small Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard near the top of Diamond Mountain in the northern end of Napa Valley. One look at the porous, red volcanic soils, and the exposure to the cool afternoon breezes coming all the way from Lake Sonoma, we were convinced that this had the makings of an outstanding Cabernet vineyard. The northwest hillside exposure provides plenty of hang?time, and the long, sunny days slowly ripen the grapes to perfection.The first year the vineyard produced wine was 2004 and each year we have seen very dark and rich wines, with intense black cherry and black olive aromas and layers of velvety currant, black cherry and blackberry fruit in the mouth. Stunning and remarkably elegant, they exhibit a dense core of fleshy, black fruit. These wines are immaculately balanced that finish long and complex with firm, integrated tannins.
2006 Michael Black Vineyard Merlot: 93 Points Wine Spectator
Napa native Michael Black has been a respected viticultralist and vineyard engineer for over 40 years. His resume includes planting many high profile vineyards in both Napa Valley and Sonoma County. In 1987 Michael decided to plant a vineyard on the rocky hillside surrounding his house. Located in Coombsville, the vineyard benefits from the two defining characteristics of the region: cool, marine influenced air and volcanic, well-drained soils. To give the vineyard a personal touch, Michael propagated his own Merlot clone that he named the “Black” Clone. The desired characteristics were small berries set in small clusters, all the better to concentrate the structure and complexity of the fruit.
In 2004 COHO was privileged to become associated with the Michael Black Vineyard and began to purchase the entire output. The wines reveal a richness and depth of flavor that is most often associated with the Merlot based wines from the Pommerol region of Bordeaux. Our fans often say “this is a Cabernet lovers Merlot”.