Send us Fan Mail La Burgondie Cremant de Bourgogne Brut Rosé-Trader Joe's Excellent French Bubbly This is a quality Bubbly from Burgundy, France. It is from a producer that has been making Cremant (Sparkling wine/Bubbly) in Burgundy since 1972. They make a similar wine under their own wine that sells for between $16 and $20…
Read MoreSend us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Reserve Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Lot 225-Are TJ's Reserve Wines The Best Values In Wine ? This is a $9.99 Cabernet Sauvignon from the same growing region as Ridge, Simi, Coppola, and Ferrari-Carano. It is a tasty, enjoyable, reasonably complex, and balanced Cab Sauv, all for a penny…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Lot 225 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. This is a wine produced for Trader Joe’s by Precision Wine Company which makes custom wines and several of its own brands from Napa Valley grapes. The Alexander Valley is about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast along…
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Send us Fan Mail The Pale Rosé 2021-A Great Rosé For A Hot Summer's Day (Or Night) This is an IGP Rosé from the maker of Whispering Angel, Rock Angel, and the Beach, all popular and excellent Provence Rosé wines. The Pale is an IGP wine, meaning it is cheaper to produce, but not a…
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The Pale Rosé 2021 is a Rosé blend of mainly Grenache, Cinsault, and Syrah from Chateau d´Estaing which produces the very popular Whispering Angel Rosé. Provence in the south of France is divided into 9 growing regions or AOCs, but this is an IGP-designated wine. In France, an IGP wine is a wine that does…
Read MoreSend us Fan Mail Josh Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2020-Everything You Need To Know About Value Sauv Blanc Yup, We cover the basics. Sauvignon Blanc tastes like where the grapes were grown. That is because the typical value-price Sauv Blanc is produced the same way. Yes, there are variations, but these are young wines, simply made,…
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The Josh Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is a wine from the negotiant branch of Joesph Carr Wines from Napa, California. Joseph Carr was a sommelier in New York City who decided to make his own wines. He named his wine company after himself and the negociant branch after his dad, Josh. Here is a wine…
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Send us Fan Mail Coppola Diamond Collection Chardonnay- A Tasty Classic California Chardonnay Every California winery and Washington too for that matter, have their own take on the classic New World Chardonnay. No 2 are the same. The Coppola Diamond Collection Chard is a crowd-pleasing Chardonnay with ripe tasty fruit flavors and a well-balanced French…
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The Coppola Diamond Collection Chardonnay 2019 is sourced from grapes grown in coastal vineyards. It may be confusing but there seem to be three Diamond Collection Chardonnays, a black-label Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, a Monterey Chardonnay, and a California Chardonnay. The last two both have an orange label. This Chardonnay lists for $16 on the Coppola…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Reserve Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir 2020 Lot 229-Try It You'll Like It I like Trader Joe's Reserve wines from the Petit Reserve to the Platinum Reserve. They source grapes from elite-growing regions where wine can sell for hundreds of dollars and sell them to us for as much…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir 2020 Lot 229 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The Sta. Rita Hills AVA (pronounced Santa Rita Hills) is located inside the Santa Ynez Valley AVA which is inside the Santa Barbara County AVA which is part of the Central Coast AVA. It is called the…
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Send us Fan Mail Pleiades White Blend 2019-Most Interesting & Unique Wine You Never Had Ancient texts and lost knowledge. Well not so lost. Sean Thackery read books from 2,400 years ago and books from Renaissance France and Italy on how to make wine. He never learned the standard modern methods. His wines were never…
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The Pleiades White Blend 2019 is a wine from a recently formed wine company that is an extension of Sean Thackery Wines. Who is or sadly was Sean Thackery (he passed away in May 2022)? Well, that is a long and exciting story. Sean Thackery was an art dealer and curator (he collected ancient books)…
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Send us Fan Mail Bear Bros Rosé 2021-An Enjoyable-Cheap Rosé From Aldi This could very well be the cheap Rosé of the summer. An Aldi wine selling for $7.99. It reminds me of a Provence Rosé. It is good, cheap and very tasty!!! For more information check out http://www.cheapwinefinder.com and listen to the PODCAST!! Check…
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The Bear Bros Rosé 2021 is a $7.99 Aldi exclusive sourced from vineyards in California, but probably most, if not all, from the Monterey AVA. Bear Bros’ line of wines is made for Aldi by Scheid Family Vineyards which have multiple vineyards spread out over 70 miles of the Salinas Valley. Scheid is known for…
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Send us Fan Mail Josephine Pays D'Oc Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 A $6.99 Red wine from the Languedoc region in France. How can it be any good? A $6.99 California wine just needs a truck ride to get to your local TJs. A French wine needs a French wine needs a truck ride to the docks,…
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The Josephine Pays D’Oc Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 is a $6.99 Trader Joe’s import exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southwest France located between the Mediterranean Ocean and the Pyrenees and the Black Mountains. It is a region known for single-varietal wines, though blends are also allowed. The Josephine Pays D’Oc Cabernet Sauvignon…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's French Brut Rosé-It Sure Doesn't Taste Like $6.99 Bubbly Where were the grapes grown? They didn't say. What is the grape blend? They punted on that one. Is it a Blanc de Blanc or a Blanc de Noir? They were kind of hazy on that one. So what is…
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The Trader Joe’s French Brut Rosé is a $6.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from vineyards on the French coast near the Mediterranean Sea. This bottle is simply a French wine and does not have an AOC or IGP designation, making this a Vin de France or the lowest classification of French wine. Trader Joe’s does…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Petit Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2020-Real Good For 8 Bucks Santa Barbara is just north of Los Angeles, which should be very warm during the summer months but due to a geological anomaly is one of California's coolest grape-growing regions. We talk about Jess Parker, TV's Davey Crocket,…
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The Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2020 is a $7.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive made for TJ’s by ABJ Wines from Geyserville, California. According to the California Wine COLA, ABJ Wines is August Briggs, Jr. There is an August Briggs WInery in Napa that August no longer owns, it looks like this is…
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Send us Fan Mail Wonderwall Edna Valley Pinot Noir 2019-Drink Like The Cool Kids This is a wine with a story to tell. It is an excellent Pinot Noir that costs less than it should. I could retell the story here or you can check out: http://www.cheapwinefinder.com and listen to the PODCAST for all the…
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The Wonderwall Edna Valley Pinot Noir 2019 is sourced from three vineyards, Morro View, Greengate, and Jesperson, in the Edna Valley AVA just north of the town of Arroyo Grande, a few miles away from the Pacific Ocean in the Central Coast AVA. Wonderwall is a brand from Andrew Jones of the Field Recordings WInery….
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Send us Fan Mail Ava Grace California Sauvignon Blanc 2020- A Value Priced lifestyle Sauv Blanc The Ava Grace is a brand from The Wine Group the 2nd largest wine company in the US and 3rd in the world in terms of volume. They know value-priced wine. This is a lifestyle wine, the marketing is…
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The Ava Grace California Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is one of the many brands from The Wine Group, the second-largest US wine company and the third in the world in terms of volume. Ava Grace has a full line of wines and the winemaker is Andrea Brambila. The Ava Grace California Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is a…
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