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Well, welcome. It's still maindave again, cheapwinefinder.com. Like always, um, and like always, we got a value-priced uh wine uh to talk about, which is what we do. There's not really anybody out there talking too much. I mean, there's a few talking about the uh the the affordable wines. There's a lot of people talking about the stuff that costs $200, but here we are talking about we're we're the wine uh wine reviewers for the people. And today we've got a Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Sonoma County Brute, which is kind of weird. It was $12.99. Typically, these wines come out from Trader Joe's in November, December, because that's the sparkling wine time, and here they're just dropped without any fanfare in June, July. And I don't know why. But the thought occurred to me that on the 4th of July, when the fireworks go off, popping the top on American Bubbly, which is Sonoma. And even though Trader Joe's is German, it's Trader Joe's is American here. Toast in the United States um with some nice bubbly. This is a this is a nice bubbly, and staring at the fireworks, that's kind of a um proper way to celebrate the 4th of July. I'm gonna take a sip. Trader Joe's offered no information about this. They also have a rose. The rose is there's no rules for bubbly in the United States. There's all sorts of rules for it. Or else everywhere else. Italy, Germany, Spain, Italy, you know, all those places where that make bubbly, they have tons of uh regulations. US, nothing. A brute wine typically is the house style. It's how they make the wine, the percentages, how they how they pick the grapes, grow the grapes, all that stuff. Trader Joe's doesn't have a house style, they're a store. And it's made by Rack and Riddle. Rack and Riddle is a huge sparkling wine company. There are several very good sparkling wine company um companies, wineries in California, Mendocino, in Sonoma, um that can compete with uh champagne. But most of them, if you're a brand or a small winery that only want to do one, all you want is one bubbly, you're not gonna get into it. You you call a rack and riddle and they'll make it for you, and they've got all the facilities and all the know-how. Um back in the day, making champagne-style wine was very, very uh labor-intensive. Nowadays, not so much. So it's affordable. Well, the grapes probably this the the the rose probably had more Pinot Noir, and the Brute probably has more Chardonnay. But again, like I said, there's no rules. I mean, I'm just figuring that there may be since they they call it a uh traditional method wine, they were using the traditional method grapes, but there's no law that says they gotta do that. I just figured that's what they would do. Ignore sip. Nice tasting bubbly. But there is nothing wrong with this thing. This is a really it's really nice. And one thing, it's got a lot of pressure in the bottle. This is the first time it happened, it's happened to me, and I don't know, I don't think I ever happened before. I took off the cage and uh and the foil, and I was getting ready to throw that away, and the pop just blue. Which means there's a lot of atmospheres in the bottle. That's how they that's how they um that's how they tell you how much uh pressure is inside. First thing that that thing just popped and went off. I mean, I think it's happened once or twice before, but this is this is champagne style. Like Prosecco has half the pressure in the bottle that um champagne does, but this one sure looks like it's got a lot of had a lot of pressure and it's got that champagne style. It's nice tasting. It's got grapefruit, it's got um uh maybe some lemonade, a little bit of that. None of no sweetness. This is dry. Uh green apple. When you uh you it's got some nice flowers on the on the nose, and in the you know, a little bit of crusty bread, and again, maybe some uh grapefruit. Yeah, this is a nice little $12.99 bubbly. Now, here's the other thing. The wine, the spirits, the beer industry is way down. There's a lot, I mean like almost 14 to 20 percent. And there's a lot of wineries that gotta get rid of wine. I mean, they got the next year coming, they they're they're pulling out grape uh vines from vineyards, they're doing all sorts of stuff, but that's not selling the um the juice they already got. So when this kind of just fell on Trader Joe's out of nowhere in November, and also there's another one, it's just Trader Joe's Brute, no reserve, no nothing, nothing. I that was $8.99. I'll try that one a couple days. And if I once I hit that one, I think I've hit every single Trader Joe's bubbly. So hey, I'll try to maybe put a page together with all that on there. But uh, I'm gonna take another sip. So I'm thinking there is a possibility, I don't know anything, as you might know. Um, I have no inside information. This might be, since it just fell out of nowhere at the wrong time of the year, and they're not pushing it, they're just saying, here it is. They might have gotten a um a deal on a sparkling wine that they need to get rid of. Someone needed to get rid of. And Trader Joe's says, Well, I got some people who like value-priced wine. 12 and $12.99 for Trader Joe's for their sparkling wine, isn't that really that cheap? Uh, they really don't go to the 1999s except for the champagne and above. So $12.99 is possibly a $20. It came from a winery that was selling their wines for $20 or something in that area. There's an I'm going off speculation, but there you go. So this might be a wine. Again, I don't know about what the industry is happening, what Trader Joe's did in 2008, when when though there is a problem in the wine world, and they were picking up picking up wines and bargains repeatedly. Well, this might be this again. So there we go, Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Sonoma County Brute. It's really very, very good for $12.99. And it might actually be a more expensive wine. Not usually expensive, but it's a well made, nice, nicely made wine. And um, Rack and Riddle makes wines for everybody, so it could be from anybody. So adios, keep it cheap. This domain day. We'll figure out another wine in a couple days, and I'll be talking to you. Bye bye.