Send us Fan Mail Cloudline Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2021- Legit Under $20 Pinot Noir After 15 years of writing CheapWineFinder.com, I have figured out that my favorite wines are Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. Hey, your CWF why are you promoting expensive Boutique Pinot? Because years of drinking Trader Joe's, Aldi's, and Costco wines have…
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The Cloudline Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2021 is 100% Pinot Noir sourced from several vineyards in the Willamette Valley AVA of Oregon, about an hour south of Portland. Cloudline is a brand (this is its 20th year) from Domaine Drouhin in collaboration with their importer Dreyfus, Ashby, and Co. The Drouhin Family has one of…
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Send us Fan Mail Sainte Celine Chablis 2022-Trader Joe's Excellent $15 French Chardonnay Chablis equals Chardonnay. This Trader Joe's is a single vineyard estate wine from a quality Chablis winery. They were founded in 1973 and were one of the first Burgundian wineries to offer organic and bio-dynamic wine. This is a legit wine from…
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The Sainte Celine Chablis 2022 is a $14.99 Trader Joe’s import wine. It is produced for trader Joe’s by Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard a noted Chablis producer (since 1973) who has made some of the first organic and bio-dynamic wines in Chablis and Burgundy. Chablis is the northernmost growing region in Burgundy and Champagne is north…
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Send us Fan Mail Outlander Meritage Paso Robles 2021- Meritage = Bordeaux Blend This is a $7.99 Aldi exclusive wine. They recently changed producers and it still rocks. The grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Merlot, and Malbec all grown in Paso Robles instead of along a river in Bordeaux. For 8 bucks this Red…
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The Outlander Meritage Paso Robles 2021 is a $7.99 Aldi exclusive. The Meritage in the name indicates that this is a Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Merlot, and Malbec grapes. To be a Meritage wine a license is purchased from the Meritage Alliance. They are an industry group promoting education and working on…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020-Just What Is A Grand Reserve Wine? This is a $12.99 Trader Joe's exclusive wine. I have read that the Grand Reserve wines are equal to wine at twice the price, are they? Check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and of course, listen to the BEST wine Podcast…
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The Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 is a $12.99 TJ’s exclusive. The back label says it was vinted and bottled by Ashford Court, which is a faux winery. These Trader Joe’s Reserve wines are negociant wines; negociants never tell where they got their wines. The Alexander Valley is the upper half…
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Send us Fan Mail Kirkland Signature Cotes de Provence Rosé 2022-(Costco) 8 Bucks Well Spent Provence is the home of Rosé wines. Costco sells this one for $7.99 and it is excellent! Check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and of course, listen to the best wine PODCAST for more details. Check us out at http://www.cheapwinefinder.com or email us at [email protected]
Read MoreSend us Fan Mail Kendall Jackson Grand Reserve Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2021-Expensive Taste Value Price (Costco) The Kendal Jackson Vintners Reserve Chardonnay has been the #1 selling CHardonnay in the US for 30 years! They are doing something right. The Kendall Jackson Grand Reserve Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2021 is the tip 7% of the 2021…
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The Kendall Jackson Grand Reserve Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2021 is 100% Chardonnay sourced from sustainably farmed Kendal Jackson Estate vineyards in Santa Barbara County, The Santa Maria County AVA (the northern boundary of the Santa Barbara AVA and Monterey County. To show Santa Barbara on the label 75% of the grapes have to be grown…
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Send us Fan Mail Don't Mind If I Do Pinot Grigio 2022-No Sugar Wine Never Tasted So Good This is a $7.99 Aldi wine if you don't live near an Aldi Sunny with a Chance of Flowers is extremely similar. The Don't Mind If I Do brand of wines is No Sugar, 85 Calories, 9%…
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The Don’t Mind If I Do Pinot Grigio 2022 is Vegan-friendly. You might ask how can something made from fruit not be ok with vegans? It is the fining process, fining is where the solids, grape skin residue and spent yeast are removed from the wine after aging and before bottling. They have traditionally used…
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Send us Fan Mail Caretaker Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2021-Trader Joe's Cook Out Cab This is a $9.99 Trader Joe's wine. It is well-made. It tastes like a real-deal California Cabernet Sauvignon. And what more do you want? For more information check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and listen to the best wine podcast!!! Check us out at http://www.cheapwinefinder.com or…
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The Caretaker Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive bottled for them by Miller Family Wines. Bottled for them means just that, they officially bottled the wine, and who knows who did the rest. Miller Family Wines are the parent company of the Central Coast Wine Warehouse which 10 to 15…
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Send us Fan Mail Codorniu Limited Edition Cava Brut Reserva-Mimosa's Anyone? Codorniu Winery has been around since the 1500s, they are part of the Raventos family of wines that invented CAva in the 1970s. They know a few things about Spanish Bubbly. Add in this sub ten buck Cava has a second fermentation that lasts…
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The Codorniu Limited Edition Cava Brut Reserva is a Spanish Sparkling wine I found on sale for $8.99. Codorniu is the oldest winery in Spain with a history going back to 1551. This was way before Cava wines very started. In 1872 Josep Raventos brought the Champagne Sparkling wine methods to Spain and Cava was…
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Send us Fan Mail 19 Crimes Snoop Dogg Cali Blanc 2021-Sippin' On Sauvignon Blanc Who knew that Snoop Dogg's Sauvignon Blanc from 19 Crimes is the perfect Patio Pounder wine of the summer of 2023? This wine is rated Medium-Sweet, but it has enough acidity to balance the sugar. This is a Sau Blanc that…
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The 19 Crimes Snoop Dogg Cali Blanc 2021 is California Sauvignon Blanc, Cali Blanc is simply Snoop’s name for it. There is a history of calling this grape something other than Sauvignon Blanc. In the 1960s Robert Mondavi tried selling high-end Sauv Blanc and nobody was buying. In those days Sauvignon Blanc was the cheap…
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Send us Fan Mail Kirkland Signature K Vine Syrah 2021- 10 Bucks of Delicious This is a. $9.99 Costco wine made for them by K Vintners/Charles Smith Wines. If you don't know they have made multiple 100-point Syrah wines. And now they are making a ten-buck Costco Syrah. Syrah Masters making a $10 wine is…
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The Kirkland Signature K Vine Syrah 2021 is a $9.99 Costco exclusive produced especially for them by House of Smith/Charles Smith Wines from Washington State. This wine is sourced from a single vineyard, Frenchman Hills Vineyard, located in the newly formed Royal Slope AVA (2020). K Vintners has a history of making 100-point Syrah wines,…
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Send us Fan Mail Rabble Paso Robles Red Blend 2020 Costco-Real Good Real Cheap Costco is the largest Wine Retailer in the US according to Buzzfeed with $4,000,000,000 in annual sales. The Rabble Red Blend is a sustainably produced wine that is 1/3 to 1/2 cheaper at Costco than at other wine stores. Check out…
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The Rabble Paso Robles Red Blend 2020 Costco is $10.89 at Costco and between $15 and $20 elsewhere. The blend seems to be Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah, Tannat, Tempranillo, and Malbec sourced from “carefully selected vineyards in Paso Robles.” The reason I say that seems to be the blend is that…
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Send us Fan Mail Esteban Martin Garnacha Syrah 2021-$5 @ Costco Uptown $14 Elsewhere This is a wine that received 92 points from James Suckling for its 2019 vintage. That means this winery knows how to make Garnacha Syrah wines. While every vintage is different, the know-how stays the same. For more information check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and…
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The Esteban Martin Garnacha Syrah 2021 is a $4.99 wine at Costco, it sells for as high as $13.99 elsewhere with the average on the web being closer to $8 or $9. Esteban Martin was founded in 2003 with a partnership of Miguel Esteban and Asuncion Martin in a winery located near the town of…
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