The Original Wine Club — Restaurant in Santa Ana

I simply love The Wine Club. My friend recommended this wine store to me because he knows I am a wine enthusiast. I recently came in a few days ago just to check out their inventory, but ended up walking away with a couple of bottles. The Wine Club is located close to the 55 freeway in a large shopping plaza.

The wine store is quite small but offers a variety of wine, spirits, craft beer and other drinking accessories. Immediately, I was impressed by the selection, price and thought why I haven't been here sooner. I chose Cherry Tart Pinot Noir 2012 ($17) and McManis 2012 Cabernet ($8). The wine store I generally go to sell these two for much higher, but so glad to the price reduction.

My friend went straight to the back of store because the store offers selected craft beer. There is also a discounted basket of craft beer ranging from 40-50% off. Some of well-known breweries such as Monkish, Stone, the Bruery, etc. Also if wine and craft beer is not your style, there's a decent selection of spirits.

Another unique feature I saw is towards the back right, there's a wine tasting available. I believe I saw three different stations with 4 kinds of wine in each. Wine glasses were available for use. Each glass was affordable ranging from $3 to $5. The Wine Club also offers weekly wine tasting (see website for more details). Very friendly knowledgeable staff....

Always enjoy going to the wine club. Our last visit was for a champagne tasting of mostly smaller vineyards. There was over 30 champagnes. Although we didn't try all of them, the ones we did were very enjoyable and it's always fun to experience new wines from off the beaten path. Everyone at the wine club is always welcoming and a wealth of knowledge with not just wine but spirits as they have continued to grow their list of spirits including mezcal with some new interesting additions.. one of the other great features of the wine club are the lockers. They have an entire area for storage that is temperature controlled that you can rent out to store your wines. Out of sight out of mind for the most part. It's always a pleasant surprise when we open the locker and see something that we haven't seen...

Good prices on a wide variety of wines from around the world. They don't have everything but the staff can recommend something for everyone. Pricing on the wine machines are set to induce you to buy not make money for the store. Saturday tastings save you money two ways 1) you don't have to buy the bottle to know if you like the wine 2) Extra 10%off the day of the tasting. Their wine lockers are competitive with other wine storage locations. If you like beers or spirits ask for Jesus (no kidding) for...