The Best Gin of the Month Clubs

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Why We Chose It: Interesting flavors from new, quality brands translate to constant discoveries and value for members.

The foundational concept for MashBox was to capture the curated experience of Mash&Grape's impressive spirits and wine market and automate it with regular shipments.

"We are in the middle of a distilling boom not seen in a hundred years, and are lucky to have new and amazing options to explore," Mash&Grape's mission statement reads, in part. "Making this exploration easier is our job and we scour the planet looking for products that excite and amaze us so that we can share them with you."

Testimonials reveal Mash&Grape's audience is pleased with the results, making founder and CEO Adi Pal proud. 

"Our customers like what they see and trust us to send them something awesome every month," he says.

For the MashBox Club box, the "something awesome" includes flavorful revelations like Desgin Gin, Cold River Gin, and Bitter Truth Pink Gin at a modest $44 a month.

Members receive tasting notes and "gin secrets" with each shipment. They also get access to Mash&Grape's retail marketplace and discounts on very limited spirits from partner distilleries.

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Why We Chose It: Taster’s Club provides exciting new gin discoveries and comprehensive educational materials at a reasonable rate.

Taster’s Club announces upfront—“We curate gins produced all around the world, giving you a delicious variety for sipping and cocktail mixing.”—and backs it up with its boxes, which include unique and extensive “Gin 101” course material. It covers a given month’s selection, production techniques, trends, and history, plus topics like how to properly taste and evaluate a gin, different gin styles, distilleries around the world, and gin production techniques.

The grade of gin that comes with those materials matters much, of course, and Taster’s comes through there too. Sample craft brands include Denning’s Point Distillery, Sipsmith London, and St. George Spirits.

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Why We Chose It: Flaviar does gin with style and substance, delivering the most gins to try with a bundle of other extras to boot.

It's Gin O'Clock. Ori-Gins. Gin Lane. So go the tempting themes with which Flaviar builds its gin tasting boxes: three dram-sized, 1.5-ounce samples paired with lively tasting notes, a coaster, and helpful tasting guides.

As a member of Flaviar’s standard annual subscription, you’ll be able to receive up to two different products—both tasting boxes and full-size bottles—every year. Starting at just $159 per year, a membership to Flaviar includes monthly access to “The Vault,” which offers the chance to acquire rarities made possible by Flaviar's partner producers. A strong roster of auxiliary elements—including tasting and blending events (live and online) and VIP distillery tours—are appealing factors too. Meanwhile, Flaviar's online blog is a rich resource for spirits news, recipes, and history.

If you want access to more products, select the All Access annual subscription which includes eight products of your choice—one tasting box and one bottle per quarter—and many other amenities, all for $349 per year.

Members select a bottle from a gallery of spirits (including a wealth of non-gins) to receive either annually or every quarter, depending on the subscription level you select. However, you can also opt to purchase more products from Flaviar’s shop and receive free shipping on orders over $60.

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Why We Chose It: PlumpJack’s selection of gins jumps off the page. The rest of its package, with an emphasis on cocktail recipes, is solid too.

For a modest $40 to $45 per quarter, PlumpJack is on the money with a pick from a wide variety of gins from all over the world—and all over the botanical flavor map. Having relationships with innovative small-production operations is an apparent strength from a glance at PlumpJack's gin inventory, where bottles including Nikka Coffey Gin, Wild Sardinia Gin, Freeland Gin, Bimini Gin, and Corgi Earl Grey Gin all appear. Bottles come with producer background intel and recipes specific to that gin.

One great example of PlumpJack's rare revelations is Gray Whale Gin, which is made from botanicals sprinkled along the California coast migrational path of the namesake cetacean sends part of its proceeds to support ocean health.

Though he's heading toward retirement, Paul Birman has been the buyer at San Francisco-based PlumpJack for 20 years and, as a gin enthusiast, steered the Gin Club for at least a half-decade. Spirits Supervisor Sam Crocker believes Birman's approach to gins will continue to guide the club well into the future.

"We're always looking for unique gins that can stand up in a martini, which is how Sam likes to experience gin," Birman says. "He tries to find smaller producers with great stories." Mission accomplished.