Send 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 Kirkland Carneros Signature Pinot Noir 2021 is a $9.99 Costco exclusive by winemaker Alison Crowe. Alison is the Director of Winemaking at Plata Wine Partners, which owns 60 vineyards and farms 18,000 acres of grapes. They supply grapes for 34 of the top 30 wine companies and make wine brands. This seems to be…
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Send us Fan Mail Kirkland Carneros Pinot Noir 2021-An Excellent $10 Pinot From Costco Ten bucks for a good Pinoy Noir is a bargain no matter what the circumstance. A rocking ten-buck Carneros Pinot is a major bargain. The alcohol is 14,5% which is a bit high but the wine can handle it, it does…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2021 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The back label says it was made by Ashford Court who also made Trader Joe’s perennial favorite, Cotillion Pinot Noir. The actual producer of Cotillion is Plata Wine Partners of Napa, California. You may have not heard of Plata Wine…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2021-I Like This Chardonnay Over the 15 years we have been doing CWF we have learned a few things. One of those things is that I like Santa Barbara Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Syrah. I learned most of this by drinking Trader Joe's Reserve…
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The Trader Joe’s Grower’s Reserve Red Wine 2021 is a $5.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. This wine is produced for Trader Joe’s by ASV Wines who have been in business since 1982 and own several sustainably farmed vineyards in the Central Coast AVA and an organic vineyard in southern Monterey County where they grow Cabernet Sauvignon…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Grower's Reserve Red Wine 2021- $6 Organic Red Trader Joe's literally gives us less than no information about this wine. Ok, maybe literally is the wrong word, but the origin is California, and it is a Red wine, not even a Red blend. We do know it is $5.99…
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The1 is a $5.99 Trader Joe’s wine though it is available in other countries. This is an IGP-designated wine, the top rating is DOCG followed by DOC. IGP wines have less stringent growing and producing regulations and are often sourced from vineyards in more generic growing regions. Aglianico is said to be one of the…
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Send us Fan Mail Epicuro Puglia Aglianico 2021-TJ's $5.99 Import-The G's are Silent You do not expect a $5.99 Red wine that had to travel all the way from Italy to be good. But somehow you are wrong! This is a well-balanced, good-tasting wine. For more information check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/Â and of course, listen to the…
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The Vino Columbia Valley Pinot Grigio 2020 is a wine that should be found for around $10, I saw prices as high as $13 and I found it for $8.99. It is a brand from Charles Smith/House of Smith Wines. The full name of this wine is Vino CasaSmith and these wines are Italian varietals…
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Send us Fan Mail Vino Columbia Valley Pinot Grigio 2020-My Favorite Pinot Grigio In The Last 2 Years This is a wine from Charles Smith Wines this time it is under the CasaSmith Label. I am a fan of these wines and have been for over ten years. This is a single-vineyard Pinot Grigio wine…
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