What Wine Should You Serve? Entertain with Confidence
Take the guesswork out of holiday wine shopping with our Entertaining with Confidence quiz, then turn your recommendations into a simple plan for your gathering.
Buy more, save more: 5% off 2 bottles • 10% off 4 • 15% off 12. Mix & match within each collection.
Hey there, my wine-loving friends!
Welcome to The Wine Concierge — your curated home for wines crafted by women, BIPOC, and culturally diverse winemakers.
If you love discovering delicious wines without the jargon, you’re in the right place.
We hand‑select every bottle from boutique vineyards so you can shop confidently, explore new flavors, and support underrepresented winemakers with every sip.
Whether you’re here to learn, shop, or join our wine community, we’ll guide you every step of the way.
~Cheers, Leslie
Choose a ready-to-go wine bundle and get back to enjoying your guests.
Join us for The Thanksgiving Panic Prevention Party, a fun, drop‑in shopping extravaganza designed to help you avoid last‑minute stress and enjoy the holiday with confidence (and great wine).
Read what our customers say — then let us find your perfect match.
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Thank you for everything! We are still talking about how wonderful you all are!
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“Exciting Wine Club
We love being able to customize our selections or just message and get our Wine Concierge to select for us. It's always a wonderful surprise! We learn so much and have a greater appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of wine.
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“Shade of Vino Happy Member
I was DELIGHTED by my first shipment and welcome the second with open arms!
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Shades of Vino is effortless, customizable, convenient wine buying, styled to your taste and preferences for satisfaction with every sip.
Preview the 2026 Fall Collection
There is no cost to create a member account and you may sign up for the wine club at anytime. You decide on 3, 6, or 12 bottles and each quarter new and exciting wines arrive right at your doorstep.
The wines are personally evaluated by our panel of experts to ensure the utmost quality and enjoyable tasting experience.
Club wines are exclusively for Shades of Vino Wine Club members, and only members receive special perks.
Shades of Vino Wine Club Collections start at $85.00 quarterly.
Autumn invites us to embrace change - deeper colors, evolving textures, cooler evenings, and wines that shift right along with the season. Inspired by that transition, this quarter's Importer's Corner collection, curated by Alyssa Wolf of Red Wolf Imports and offered exclusively through The Wine Concierge, explores four distinctive expressions from Portugal and South Africa: a vibrant Vinhão red made to take a chill, a dry Stellenbosch rosé, a fragrant white blend, and a deeper, structured Portuguese red. Together, these wines create Autumn’s Evolving Palette: Fragrant, Layered & Expressive, moving from lighter, aromatic styles toward greater depth and structure while showcasing how place, vintage, climate, and the winemaker's hand shape what arrives in the glass each year.
Take the guesswork out of holiday wine shopping with our Entertaining with Confidence quiz, then turn your recommendations into a simple plan for your gathering.
Turkey gets the spotlight, but the sides shape the meal. Discover a simpler way to choose Thanksgiving wines around herbs, richness, sweetness, and the people at your table.
Buy for the people actually coming. Plan your Thanksgiving wine by guest count and preferred pours, with simple bottle math, thoughtful alcohol-free choices, water, and a practical shopping checklist.
For every wine purchase, The Wine Concierge donates a dollar to The Black Winemakers Scholarship Fund.
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