About SommSelect Benchmarks

6 Bottles

For the experienced oenophile: Our sommeliers scour the marketplace, and leverage long-term relationships, for the most iron-clad investments for your growing wine cellar— red, whites, sparklers, stickies…you name it, we’ll get those shelves stocked with the best of the best!

A sommelier has two main tasks: Selecting wine and serving wine (there’s also the less-glamorous stocking/ storing component, but in this case, we’re leaving that part to you). The modus operandi for SommSelect Benchmarks is the same as that of a seasoned restaurant sommelier: The wines we choose for this pack are the kinds of wines we would want to showcase on a well-curated restaurant wine list.

The word “benchmarks” says it all: We spend an inordinate amount of time comparing and contrasting the great wines of the world (a tough job, for sure!), with the goal of establishing, yes, benchmarks: As in, what qualities do the best wines from Chablis share? Or, how does the current-release vintage of Brunello di Montalcino compare with those that came before? There’s a lot of wine out there: This is about separating the wheat from the chaff and finding the most outstanding, most authentic, most place-expressive wines available.

Please note: The quantity of memberships purchased does not represent the time length of the membership, it identifies how many shipments you want to receive per month. For more information on how our memberships work, please visit the Wine Club section of our FAQs.