The Cameron Hughes Russian River Pinot Noir 2018 Lot 947 is a Nogociant wine, you should be able to find it for around $19. A negociant is a French wine company that goes to wineries and makes a deal to buy excess wine. It is all very hush-hush, nobody is to know who the winery…
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Aldi Specially Selected Alto Adige Pinot Grigio 2022-Alto Adige Is The Money Pinot Grigio There are over 300 White wine grapes in Italy. They are all delicious, especially when enjoyed with the region's cuisine. All most people know about Italian White wine is Pinot Grigio, but Pinoy Grigio is the White grape of far northern…
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The Aldi Specially Selected Alto Aldige Pinot Grigio 2022 is a $9.99 Aldi exclusive and is part of the ten wine Specially Selected series of wines released in the fall of 2023. These are wines from top-rated growing regions worldwide being sold at bargain prices. Alto Adige, in far northern Italy, is the home to…
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Mumm Napa Blanc de Blanc-It Is Time To Talk About Holiday Bubbly This is C H Mumm's Napa outpost of their Champagne House. C H Mumm has been around for almost 200 years, Napa about 40 years. The Napa version is the Blanc de Blanc which is a White wine from White grapes. This is…
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The Mumm Napa Blanc de Blanc is a Bubbly that lists at $26 but should be available for under $20 during the holiday season. Mumm Napa is the California division of C.H. Mumm, a Champagne house founded in 1827. In 1983 they started producing Sparkling wines in Napa under the Domaine Mumm name which was…
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Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2021- A $13 Modern Pinot Noir In California, there are two competing styles of Pinot Noir, the Burgundian style and the modern Meiomi style which is rich and full. I am old school, I dig the Burgundian style, but I am well aware that the new…
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The Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2021 is a $12.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. In January of 2022, Trader Joe’s offered the Platinum Reserve SLH Pinot Noir. That wine sold for $14.99 and if you click on the link you will find that we thought it had too much alcohol and wasn’t…
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VINTJS Sonoma County Chardonnay 2021-Trader Joe's Excellent $9 Everyday Chardonnay This VINTJS Sonoma County Chardonnay is a delightful oaky Chard! You do not expect an oak-conditioned Chardonnay to sell for $8.99. While this Chardonnay has an oak influence has a balanced oak influence, which results in excellent flavor, It is not your typical $9 CHardonnay….
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The VINTJS Sonoma County Chardonnay 2021 is an $8.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive if you wish to know which winery produced this wine head to the TTBGov California Cola Registry and type VINTJS into the search box. I usually hesitate to name the producer since they are producing wine to Trader Joe’s specifications and not always…
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VINTJS Redwood Valley Zinfandel 2021-Give it a Try This is a Trader Joe's $9.99 wine. In the past VINTJS wines were $6.99, but in the last few years were wine from the Sonoma Coast AVA. Wines from the Sonoma Coast do not sell for $6.99, maybe $26,99 and up, but not the lessor. VINTJS skipped…
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The VINTJS Redwood Valley Zinfandel 2021 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. Trader Joe’s seems to have taken a break from the VINTJS house brand. We last reviewed a VINTJS wine for the 2019 vintage, which was a $6.99 wine. The last VINTJS wine we reviewed was a 2019 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir which you…
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Prayers Of Sinners Washington Red Blend 2020-Skeletons Make Good Halloween Wine! This is a blend of 80% Syrah and 20% Merlot from a brand associated with Chateau Ste Michelle from Washington State. The front label has a half skeleton half man in suit being attached by octopus tentacles. When you turn the lights out the…
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The Prayers Of Sinners Washington Red Blend 2020 is a wine I found selling for $9.99. It is one of Chateau Ste. Michelle’s family of wines. They are the largest winery in Washington accounting for half of all the wines produced. This series has two wines: the Prayers of the Sinners (Red blend) and Prayers…
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Cannonball California Sauvignon Blanc 2022-A Blast of Flavor The Cannonball Sauv Blanc is a wine I found for $11.99 at a local wine shop. I wasn't expecting anything different, but then I saw that they used the plentiful Clone 1 Sauvignon Blanc and added a dash of Clone 27, the Musque Clone. To find out…
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The Cannonball California Sauvignon Blanc 2022 is a wine I found selling at a local wine shop for $11.99. Cannonball Wine was founded in 2016 with the mission goal of making “the best California Cabernet under $20“, they have since branched out to include Melot, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. The Cannonball California Sauvignon Blanc 2022…
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Aldi Specially Selected Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021-Going Upscale With Aldi @$14.99 This is the top of the ten Aldi Speciality Selected wines. It is a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon of unknown origin, anything above $15 and you are going to want to know where it came from. What we do know about it, is…
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The Aldi Specially Selected Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 is a $14.99 Aldi exclusive. The back label says Isolated Cellars bottled this wine, which is the least important factor for wine drinkers. There is no mention of exactly who produced the wine and exactly where the grapes are grown, Napa Valley is a large growing…
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William Wright Monterey Chardonnay 2021-I Dare You To Find A Better $6.99 Chardonnay This is an Aldi wine that is released vintage after vintage/ It is produced by a top-quality family-owned winery with an excellent history. Is $6.99 too cheap for a decent Chardonnay. Never judge a wine before you taste it! Check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and…
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The Willam Wright Monterey Chardonnay 2021 is a $6.99 Aldi exclusive produced for them by Scheid Family Vineyards of Monterey, California. Scheid is a large family-owned winery founded in 1972 and they have been Certified Sustainable since 1914. They owned vineyards dotted throughout a 70-mile section of the Salinas Valley and they have 3,000 acres…
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Kirkland Signature Napa Valley Red Blend 2021-Costco $10.99- Do You Like Good Wine? This is one of the best Red Blends CWF has reviewed all year. Yes, we review value-priced wines, and this Red Sells for $10.99, but it is really good. Read https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and of course, listen to the best wine PODCAST for all the…
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The Kirkland Signature Napa Valley Red Blend 2021 is a $10.99 Costco exclusive. Costco often names the producer of their Signature wines, but not here. This is a Bordeaux Blend with 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 10% Malbec, 6% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. Carmenere is the other Bordeaux-approved Red grape, but it is…
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Kirkland Signature Ti Point Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022-Costco Excellent $7.49 NZ Sauv Blanc Ti Point is a family-owned winery located in the north-central North Island near Auckland. Almost all of the vineyards are located in Marlborough in the Northern part of New Zealand's South Island. So much for the geography lesson, Marlborough is the home…
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The Kirkland Signature Ti Point Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022 is a $7.49 Costco exclusive. Ti Point Winery is family-owned and originated in the 1990s with vineyards in the Ti Point Peninsula near Auckland in the northcentral part of the North Island of New Zealand. The original vineyard was small but they have branched out and…
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Aldi Specially Selected Valdobbiadene Extra Dry Prosecco 2022-Is Aldi Specially Selected Wines-Special? It has been years since Aldi has dropped a slew of new, interesting wines onto their store shelves. Their existing wines are good, especially the wines closer to ten bucks. But are these Specially Selected wines worth the trouble? Check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and of course,…
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The Aldi Specially Selected Valdobbiadene Extra Dry Prosecco 2022 is a $10.99 Aldi exclusive, it is part of 10 wines in the Specially Selected series featuring wines from all over the world. Here is a link to their French Sparkling wine LINK. Aldi does not offer any details on the wines, such as why they…
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