Maryland Wine Explorer

A Maryland Wine Explorer is any enthusiast of Maryland wine who creates an account on the Maryland Wine Explorer page. This account is free to create and allows you to purchase Maryland Wine Explorer wines directly through our site.

With more than 100 wineries around the state—each releasing new wines with each vintage—it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the local wine scene without personally tasting your way through thousands of miles of our wine trails. As a Maryland Wine Explorer, the journey is brought directly to your door.

Opportunities to purchase wines using your Maryland Wine Explorer account include:

• Access to Maryland Wine Flash Sales
• Access to Curated Maryland Wine Packs
• Access to Maryland Wine Explorer Club Subscriptions

The Maryland Wineries Association hosts several exclusive wine engagements each year. Following these engagements, we may have a limited number of cases of fabulous and exclusive wines that we want to share with you. In these instances, wines are likely to be offered as “flash sales” to Maryland Wine Explorers. We’ll offer unbeatable pricing on these hard-to-get wines. Act fast, though! Once the inventory is sold out, we won’t be adding new inventory of these bottles.

As an introduction to the 2020 launch of the Maryland Wine Explorer Club, our first set of flash sale wines represents selections from the “Stay Home and Wine Down” virtual tasting event we hosted in July 2020.

Our wine packs are hand-selected and represent a wide variety of wines, all made in Maryland. These wine packs showcase the terroir and grape varietals that make each of the state’s growing regions unique.

In addition to the quarterly red and white wine packs, we offer packs of wine highlighting holidays, seasons, and other notable occasions. What is a celebration without great-tasting wine?

Your subscription to the Maryland Wine Explorer Club ensures that you don’t miss out on the hand-picked wines we feature every quarter. As a subscriber, you will receive a notification prior to processing and each wine club pack release in your subscription tier will be shipped directly to your door. 

You may subscribe to receive the red pack, the white pack, or both. Subscriptions are currently available in 3-pack or 6-pack allotments.

If at any time you’d like to pause, or cancel, your subscription, you may do so in your account manager.

Subscribers earn discounted pack pricing, a 10% discount on all store orders (club packs do not qualify for additional discounts,) and flat rate shipping on all orders. 

Additionally, as a Maryland Wine Explorer Club Subscriber, you gain early access to future flash sales, exclusive wine releases, and subscriber-only packs, such as the “Governor’s Cup Case“ of top wines from our annual, professionally-judged, competition.

The benefits of subscribing don’t end with wine! Maryland Wine Explorer Club Subscribers will be invited to exclusive virtual and live events and will gain early access to event ticket sales.

All Maryland Wine Explorer orders will be shipped directly to your door. Maryland Wine Explorer wine purchase are currently only able to be shipped to Explorers at addresses in Maryland. 

As our shipping support grows, we will make updates here.

Each Explorer Club wine is curated by members of our tasting panel. 

• • Kevin Atticks, Executive Director of the Maryland Wineries Association, founder of Grow & Fortify
  • Janna Howley, WSET Level 2, COO of Grow & Fortify
  • Claude Mackey, Maryland Wine Ambassador
  • Al Spoler, co-host of WYPR’s “Cellar Notes” and director of the Maryland Governor’s Cup Wine Competition
  • Jim Bauckman, Director of Communications of Grow & Fortify

Launched by the Maryland Wineries Association, the Maryland Wine Explorer program highlights the incredible wines from producers found across the state. Purchases directly support our state’s wineries and efforts of the Maryland Wineries Association.