Wine clubs in Germany

Is there any equivalent of the Sunday Times wine club in Germany (for the Brits who may know what that is)? The type where someone else does the hard work and mails you a case full of nice new wines to try every month from all over the world?

The basis of the Sunday Times Wine Club and many others of its ilk in UK is to catch you into its claws with the promise a box of seemingly well-priced wines with attractive labels, then keep you in its hold with regular repeat offers, at the same time offloading high-price wines of questionable quality at a high profit. With such an abundance and variation of wine at every second bar or store in Germany/Munich, there is less incentive here and many people don't want to pay the additional shipping costs that mail order requires. You can sample and test with low outlay, and little risk. Places such as Walmart and Aldi offload remarkably good quality wines at loss-leading prices (and sell junk too, so buyer beware).

That's not to say Wine "clubs" or mail-order services don't exist for "Liebhaber". Take a look at www.wein-plus.de, The "WeinUnion" or The Abacus Wine Club - many of these are less interested is selling wines, but more in making recommendations, and organising wine tours (which are more accessible than in UK). Consider too direct-from-the-vinyard offers - easy way to find some German ideas is to Google for "Weingut"

YL6

I nearly signed up for this:
http://www.hawesko.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/F...380786443289769
They send 6x2 bottles every quarter for around €90. I did a bit of searching for the wines they were offering but found that the prices were only ok (not bad mind you). After asking around though I was put off: I think on balance you are better off choosing your own (even if it is from an online shop).

And anyway I discovered I work beside this place:
http://www.suedwein.de/