The Freakshow Red Blend 2019 is a blend of 59% Syrah, 37% Petite Sirah, and Souzao (a blending grape mainly used in making Port wine) sourced from sustainably farmed vineyards in the Lodi AVA. FreakShow is a line of wine from Michael and David Phillips, fifth-generation growers (the 6th generation is also part of the…
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Domaine de Paris Provence Rosé-Orange Is The New Pink An excellent Estate Rosé from the Cotes De Provence region of the South of France. Crisp, well-balanced, flavorful, with excellent acidity. You will be compelled to take another sip. The color is more orange than pink. Listen to the podcast or check out www.cheapwinefinder.com and enjoy!…
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The Domaine de Paris Cotes De Provence Rosé 2020 is a blend of 40% Grenache, 30% Syrah, 20% Cinsault, and 10% Carignane from vineyards in the Breban Family Estate. Cotes De Provence is the largest appellation in the Provence growing area. Close to 90% of the wine produced in Provence is Rosé. The south of…
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Villa Antica Asolo Prosecco DOCG-TJ's Cheap+Good Italian Bubbly What's Up DOCG? DOCG is the highest designation in Prosecco Bubbly. Asolo is a small village in the Alps' foothills, and the vineyards surrounding the town have the DOCG designation. And Trader Joe's sells the resulting Bubbly for the low, low price of $7.99! Check out www.cheapwinefinder.com…
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The Villa Antica Asolo Prosecco DOCG is a $7.99 Trader Joe’s import wine exclusive. The grapes are farmed around the village of Asolo, where the vineyards receive the top DOCG, and Conegliano and Valdobbiadene are the other two. DOCG desiganted regions inside of Prosecco. Most of the vineyards in Prosecco are rated DOC, with the…
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Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Russian River Pinot Noir 2020- The Real Deal? What is the difference between this $12.99 Russian River AVA Pinot Noir and all the $7.99 Russian River Chardonnay and Pinots from Trader Joe's? Anytime a Trader Joe's wine sells for above $9.99, there is something up. Ok, 13 bucks for a Russian…
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Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Russian River Pinot Noir 2020 is an exclusive wine of $12.99 Trader Joe’s. This Pinot was produced for Trader Joe’s by MWK Wine Consulting, a private label winemaker. This wine is 100% Pinot Noir, which is nice to see when Petite Sirah and Syrah are added to give Pinot Noir some…
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Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc Viognier-Chenin Blanc Is Good For U And Good To U Chenin Blanc is a world-class wine, and Viognier is an excellent blending grape. The Chenin Blanc is sourced from vineyards in the Clarksburg AVA and the Viognier from the Lodi AVA. Those are Central Valley AVAs, not the usual North Coast…
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The Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc Viognier 2020 is 80% Chenin Blanc and 20% Viognier. The Chenin Blanc is sourced from ten plots in contracted growers in the Clarksburg AVA; the Viognier uses vineyards in the Lodi AVA. Both Clarksburg and Lodi are situated inside the greater Central Valley AVA. The bulk of California wines come…
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Game Day Rosé 2020- ALDI $7 Tailgating Rosé ALDI is selling this Rosé cheaply by selling it as a Tailgating wine. This is a delicious $6.99 Rosé! It may very well be my favorite Rosé of the summer of 2021. Check out the podcast and the written review on www.cheapwinefinder.com for all the details. Check…
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The Game Day Rosé 2020 is a $6.99 ALDI wine. ALDI typically owns the trademark to their brand names, but that is not the case here. The producer’s name, Cattlemen Ridge Wine, is owned by a large family-owned winery headquartered in Greenfield in Monterey, California. The Greenfield winery makes several wines for ALDI and Trader…
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Trader Joe's Platinum Reserve Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020-$100 Selling For $15? This was a strange one. Was this your typical 2020 vintage Red wine, or was it a Cabernet Sauvignon from a top Napa winery that typically sells for hundreds of dollars? Well, all we have to go by is what TJ's tells us, but…
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The Trader Joe’s Platinum Reserve Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 is a $14.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. This is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Petit Verdot sourced somewhere in Napa Valley. Trader Joe’s says, “This is a very, very, very (very) special wine that comes from one of the most prestigious wineries in Napa.”…
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Michael and David Petite Petit 2019-Reet Petit Red Wine Reet Petie is a Jazz Age term that means fine or primo. This is a blend of Petite Sirah and Petit Verdot. Two petite grapes with different spellings that are not in any way related. There is a story here, but you will have to listen…
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The Michael and David Petite Petit 2019 is 85% Petite Sirah, and 15% Petit Verdot sourced from vineyards in the Lodi AVA of California. This is technically a Petite Sirah single varietal wine since more than 75% of this wine is Petite Sirah. But the Petite Petit name is more fun. Michael and David Phillips…
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Santa Rita 120 Sauvignon Blanc 2020-Everyday Sauv Blanc From Chile There ain't nothing wrong with a bottle of good everyday wine! I think making excellent value-priced wine is harder than making fancy wine where they spare no expense. And who does not like a good Sauvignon Blanc? It is one of the most consistently good-tasting…
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The Santa Rita 120 Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is a wine sourced from vineyards in the Central Valley of Chile. The Central Valley is an Intermediate Depression between the Andes Mountains and the Coastal Mountain Range. The Santa Rita Winery was founded in 1880, and their 120 brand of wines (which has been around for 50…
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Tanner Park Carneros Chardonnay 2019-TJ's $9.99 Fancy Chardonnay You do not always know the pedigree for these Trader Joe's exclusive wines. But they gave us a few clues for the Tanner Park Carneros Chardonnay 2019. Read the review on the cheapwinefinder website, or check out the podcast for all the details. Check us out at…
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The Tanner Park Carneros Chardonnay 2019 is $9.99 for Trader Joe’s wine. In doing what research you can do on a Trader Joe’s wine, it seems that the Tanner Park brand may be an older defunct brand, and Trader Joe’s is reusing the name. This Chardonnay uses grapes grown on the Sonoma side of the…
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Grifone Primitivo – Trader Joe's 5 Buck Fun Italian $5 wine should not be drinkable. Especially when a part of that five dollars is used to ship the wine to America and then to a Trader Joe's near you. But the Grifone Primitivo 2020 drinks just fine; it is an enjoyable red wine. Primitivo and…
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The Grifone Primitivo 2020 is a $4.99 Trader Joe’s import exclusive sourced from vineyards in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. The Primitivo grape and the Zinfandel grape are two separate clones of a grape from Croatia named Crljenak Kasteljanski. That grape is extremely obscure, so, amazingly, it found its way to Italy and California,…
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Gruet Sauvage Rosé- Excellent “No Dosage” Bubbly Bubbly Season is between Halloween and New Year's Eve. I think Bubbly is appropriate year-round, but the fact remains most Sparkling wine is purchased in the last 3 months of the year. This is a No Dosage Bubbly, meaning they did not add sweet wine when the 2nd…
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The Gruet Sauvage Rosé Bubbly is 100% Pinot Noir produced from grapes grown in New Mexico, Washington, and California. The Sauvage is a French word meaning wild and free, outside of modern society, something in its natural state. This Bubbly is a no dosage Sparkling wine. The dosage is typically the last production detail performed…
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Louis Jadot Mâcon-Villages Chardonnay- Drink Like The French This is a Burgundian Chardonnay from Louis Jadot, a producer in the wine business since the 1850s. The wine sells for around $13, less on sale, and they make enough to find this wine in grocery stores and wine shops. Even California Chardonnay producers look to Burgundy…
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The Louis Jadot 2020 Mâcon-Villages Chardonnay is sourced from vineyards in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy in France. Chardonnay is THE grape of this area in southern Burgundy. For reference, Beaujolais is the southernmost region of Burgundy and Champagne in the north. Loius Jadot has been in the wine business since the 1850s. They traditionally purchased…
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