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—“To us, appreciating gin is about more than just its taste”—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. Each quarter those tastings—which are perfect for a mini tasting party—are joined by a comely issue of Flaviar Times. A notable 750ml bottle of small-batch gin anchors the delivery, with brands like Funky Pump Gin, Citadelle Gin, Edinburgh Gin, and Wenneker among those featured.

For $95 per quarter, (or $300 per year, which includes a bonus bottle), subscribers also get 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.

Members select a bottle from a gallery of spirits (including a wealth of non-gins), and while having control over the options is empowering, it can be hard to choose from unfamiliar bottles.

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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 $35 to $55 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 American 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 family-owned 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. Another surprising standout: Namgin Gin from Namibia.

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.