DIY: Wine of the Month Club

Today is a very special day, four years ago we bought our house in Scituate.  Today is also my husband’s birthday.  I love birthdays.  I think they are so special.  When I was little my parents used to give me a party dress each year to wear on my birthday, they actually still give me a dress, but not those frilly kind that spin with you when you twirl.  Birthdays are so special because they come around once a year and celebrate the one, and only, you.  I love birthday cakes (especially from Nona’s Homemade) and that feeling when you get up in the morning, that today you may be another year older, but it’s your day.

I’m hoping my husband had a very special birthday today with our family.  We had a wonderful birthday breakfast, family time on the beach and a nice evening at Hingham Beerworks.

The boys on Minot Beach

This year I was stumped on what to give Luke.  Each year I like to come up with something special. The first year we moved into our house we gave him a tide clock and personalized it with a map of where we live.  He loved this and uses it every day to check the tide before heading out for his morning run with Poppy.

Luke loves wine and so I decided to do a Wine of the Month Club, but with a personalized twist.  I made up my own.  I looked into it a bit online and it was going to be $60 a month or more for two bottles of wine.  I also didn’t want to be tied to one vineyard because I thought it would be fun to try all different types of wine.  We love our local liquor store, Curtis Liquors, so I went down there minus my ‘two wild goats’ and selected twelve bottles of wine.  They were so helpful at Curtis.  They directed me to all different price points and not just the most expensive bottles.  The sales people, as always, were so helpful and well informed.  I purchased Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, Red Truck, Cupcake Vineyard’s Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio, Francis Ford Diamond Collection Pinot Noir and Cigar Box Malbec, to name a few.  Most bottles were already on sale, but because I bought a case they took 15% off the wines that weren’t reduced.

Wines with hand-made tags

I went to Michael’s to get labels, stamps, hemp string and got busy labeling the bottles and packaged them in a really great basket made from recycled magazines at Marshall’s.  I then printed up a brochure on all the wines with their wine rating, reviews etc.  Luke absolutely loved his gift.  So if you are stuck and need a gift for a wine lover.  I recommend a do it yourself Wine of the Month Club.  In addition, I also recommend an electric wine bottle opener.  They are fantastic.  Friends gave us one a couple of months ago and they make life so much easier, especially when you really need that bottle of wine after a day of whining!