Best Wine Clubs in Montreal (2026)

Late January in Montreal, and the SAQ on Mont-Royal has the same forty facings it had at Christmas. You're standing there in a wet coat, holding a Bordeaux you've bought three times already, wondering if there's a better way to find something new. There is. A handful of wine clubs now deliver straight to Montreal apartments, and each one solves the problem in a genuinely different way.

The short answer: Montreal Wine Club ships two privately imported bottles a month with a cheese pairing, Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois sells wine education from a credentialed sommelière, Opimian is a member-owned buying club running since 1973 with a huge catalogue, and Wine Club Canada ships one small Canadian winery a month, straight to your door, with no membership fee. Pick based on what you want more of: wine, knowledge, or Canada.

Montreal wine clubs compared

Club	What it is	Price	Wine origin	Contract
Montreal Wine Club	2 privately imported bottles + cheese, monthly	$99/month, all in	Private imports, routed through the SAQ	1, 3, 6, 9, or 12 months, no auto-renew
Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois	Wine education and community, hosted by a sommelière	$200/year	N/A, courses and tastings only	12-month access
Opimian	Member-owned national buying club, 500+ wines a year	$99/year plus a $40 one-time initiation	Wide, member-selected list	Annual membership
Wine Club Canada	1 small Canadian winery, shipped monthly, direct	From $90/month plus shipping	100% Canadian, ships direct, no SAQ involved	No contract, pause or cancel anytime

Montreal Wine Club: hyperlocal, and proud of it

Montreal Wine Club sends two bottles of privately imported wine a month, with a cheese pairing tucked into the box. It's a neighbourhood operation, the kind with a phone number you can actually call. Service is capped at roughly 60 kilometres from downtown, so it only works if you live in the Montreal area.

Here's the part worth knowing before you sign up. Quebec law reserves the importation of alcohol to the SAQ, so even a "privately imported" bottle still moves through the SAQ's private import system before it reaches you, typically arranged through the kind of specialized agency the whole private-import trade runs on in this province. That's not a knock on the club. It's simply how wine gets into this province, and the SAQ stays involved in the chain even when a club describes its bottles as private imports.

Sign up for six months or more and the club adds a free bottle to your first shipment. There's also a referral program that gives existing members a free bottle for every friend they bring in on a six-month term or longer, plus a 10 percent discount code with its import partner. Fair value, if you're committing for a while. The public FAQ doesn't spell out a mid-term cancellation process, so ask before you commit past the one-month option.

Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois: you're paying for the teacher, not the bottles

This one isn't a delivery club at all, and that should be clear before you click through. Jessica Harnois had a real career long before this club existed: buyer for the SAQ's prestige cellar, past president of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers, an MBA from UQAM and Paris-Dauphine. That's a genuine, credentialed sommelière teaching the course.

For $200 a year, members get two structured tasting courses, more than a hundred recorded and live "Mystère" tasting sessions, a private group, and monthly meetups. In-person tastings happen at Club Saint-Denis and L'Épicurien Westmount, though those carry their own ticket price on top of membership.

If what you're after is getting better at tasting, this is the strongest option on the list. Expecting wine to just show up every month without having to think about it? This club isn't built for that.

Opimian: the old one, and the biggest catalogue

Opimian has been running since 1973 and says it's served more than 250,000 Canadians in that time, which makes it the elder statesman here by a wide margin. It's structured as a member-owned, non-profit club rather than a retailer. Annual dues are $99 plus tax, with a one-time $40 initiation fee, and the club is explicit that there's no auto-renewal trap buried in the fine print.

Members get access to more than 500 wines a year, chosen by what the club describes as its own panel of Masters of Wine, along with tasting notes, producer background, and virtual and in-person events, including one in Montreal this September.

The tradeoff is that Opimian isn't a curated monthly box the way the others are. It's closer to a members-only wine merchant: you browse a large, changing list and choose what to order yourself. Good if you already know roughly what you like and appreciate a wider shelf than the SAQ carries. If the appeal of a wine club is that someone else does the choosing, Opimian asks more of you than the others here.

Where Wine Club Canada is different

We built this one to solve a specific problem: almost none of the wine clubs shipping to Quebec are actually about Canadian wine. Each box features a different producer, from Niagara or the Okanagan, delivered to your Montreal address with that winery's own story attached.

The mechanics matter here too. Because we ship Canadian wine directly to the consumer rather than an internationally imported product routed through the SAQ, the winery ships straight to you, with no import paperwork or per-product approval sitting in the middle. Choose your style: mixed, red, white, or a rosé and sparkling mix. Then pick a box size that fits how much you drink, starting from $90 a month, with shipping quoted at checkout. There's no membership fee and no contract, and you can pause, skip, or cancel from your account at any time. Tourtière with a Niagara Cabernet Franc, if you want to know how it eats.

We'll say the honest part plainly, since the other two clubs on this list would happily say it about us. We don't run a Montreal storefront or in-person tastings the way Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois or Opimian do. If you want to sit in a room and taste with other people, that's not what this is. What we do instead is put a different Canadian producer's story on your table every month, the kind of small winery you won't find lined up on an SAQ shelf.

Which one fits you

If you live in central Montreal and want two well-chosen imported bottles with a cheese pairing, and you're fine with a monthly charge and a defined service radius, Montreal Wine Club is the local pick. If what you want is to get better at tasting, with a credentialed teacher guiding you, Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois is worth the year-long commitment. If you want the widest possible shelf and don't mind picking your own bottles from a big list, Opimian's five decades of member trust are hard to argue with.

If you want to discover a small Canadian winery every month, shipped straight to your door on a month-to-month basis, this is the club for that.

What they all get right

Every club on this list is solving the same underlying problem: the SAQ, for all its reach, moves slowly on small and independent producers, and a subscription finds something new faster than standing in the aisle hoping. Montreal Wine Club went local and imported, Jessica Harnois went into teaching, Opimian went wide, and we went Canadian.

Common questions

Do Montreal wine clubs ship through the SAQ?

It depends what the club sells. Quebec law means any internationally imported wine, including Montreal Wine Club's private imports, is routed through the SAQ's private import system. That private-import channel has grown fast, up 13 percent since 2019 and now roughly 5 percent of everything the SAQ sells. Wine Club Canada ships Canadian-made wine direct to the consumer instead, outside that channel entirely.

Can I cancel a Montreal wine club anytime?

Only if the club you picked allows it. Wine Club Canada has no contract, and your account gives you full control to stop or slow down whenever you want. Montreal Wine Club sells fixed-length terms (1, 3, 6, 9, or 12 months) with no auto-renewal. Opimian and Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois are annual memberships.

Is there a wine club in Montreal with in-person tastings?

Yes. Le Club de Vins Jessica Harnois runs monthly meetups and ticketed in-person tastings in Montreal, and Opimian hosts occasional in-person events in the city too, including one this September.

What if I only want Canadian wine?

That's the reason Wine Club Canada exists. Nothing in the box comes from outside Canada, ever, from the first bottle to the last.

Curious where the wine in your box comes from? See how it works in Montreal, or check the Quebec-wide page for shipping details across the province. Want the bigger picture on Canadian wine country first? Our guide to Canada's wine regions is a good place to start.