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Speaker 1
0:02
Hey
,
tomei
and
Dave
,
CheapWineFindercom
again
with
another
podcast
.
We
write
up
three
wine
reviews
for
affordable
wines
every
week
and
then
we
plug
in
the
microphone
and
here
we
are
right
now
.
Right
now
,
what
we
have
is
the
Trader
Joe's
Reserve
Arroyo
Seco
,
monterey
County
,
chardonnay
2023
.
These
Trader
Joe's
Reserve
wines
always
have
really
long
names
and
that's
what
that
one
is
.
It's
a
$9.99
wine
,
less
than
$10
.
I
don't
know
who
made
it
.
The
back
label
I
have
.
All
the
links
on
the
website
is
for
kind
of
like
a
Jack
of
all
trades
wine
webpage
where
you
can
buy
wine
equipment
,
you
can
buy
wine
,
you
can
get
employment
news
,
you
can
get
everything
there
.
But
I
don't
know
if
they
make
wine
or
not
,
and
Trader
Joe's
has
something
about
their
fearless
flyer
about
a
winemakeremaker
and
we'll
get
into
that
a
little
bit
.
Speaker 1
1:09
Arroyo
Seco
is
in
Monterey
County
.
It's
one
of
the
older
AVA's
.
It's
one
of
the
smaller
AVA's
.
This
one
became
an
AVA
in
1983
.
Before
that
they
didn't
have
all
these
,
all
these
outlined
areas
where
that
were
different
.
Somehow
every
,
every
ava
.
There's
something
about
that
.
It
makes
it
unique
.
Speaker 1
1:30
So
,
um
,
the
royal
secco
is
in
the
salinas
valley
,
about
40
miles
from
the
uh
,
from
the
pacific
ocean
and
right
off
the
pacific
ocean
.
There
in
Monterey
Bay
there
is
the
blue
dot
or
the
blue
hole
,
which
is
the
coldest
place
in
the
entire
Pacific
Ocean
and
those
winds
go
sweeping
down
the
valley
.
And
there
is
a
Royal
Seco
down
there
.
It's
named
after
the
Royal
Seco
River
and
the
Royal
Seco
means
dry
river
,
but
it's
only
dry
certain
times
of
the
year
.
When
the
water
has
run
off
it
becomes
our
actual
river
again
.
And
there
you
have
it
.
It's
actually
a
pretty
high
value
place
for
Chardonnay
wines
.
There's
a
lot
of
old
school
California
wine
families
and
wineries
in
there
owning
vineyards
.
So
this
is
an
excellent
place
.
The
cool
weather
and
the
soil
,
the
ancient
riverbed
and
all
that
allow
for
really
,
really
long
growing
seasons
,
not
too
much
rain
.
They
don't
get
too
much
rain
.
You've
got
a
really
long
,
fully
ripened
fruit
and
that's
a
very
good
place
.
Speaker 1
2:54
Who
made
it
?
I
don't
know
the
name
they
put
in
the
back
.
They
don't
know
.
What
Trader
Joe's
did
say
about
it
is
that
the
winemaker
put
half
of
the
wine
in
French
oak
barrels
and
the
other
half
in
American
oak
barrels
to
age
,
which
is
pretty
good
for
a
$10
wine
that
actually
gets
American
and
French
oak
.
That's
pretty
good
.
Oak
barrels
can
cost
$1,000
.
They
probably
weren't
all
new
.
I
mean
,
that's
$1,000
new
,
they
probably
weren't
all
new
.
But
what
that
does
there's
two
different
species
of
oak
.
French
oak
has
a
tighter
grain
.
It's
uh
,
more
subtle
,
more
spicy
.
And
the
open
grain
of
the
american
oak
,
when
you
toast
it
,
you
can
get
different
.
Toasting
gives
you
different
flavors
.
That's
where
you
get
your
chocolates
and
your
vanillas
and
your
butters
and
that
type
of
thing
.
Speaker 1
3:38
I'm
gonna
take
a
sip
.
This
has
a
kind
of
a
huskier
flavor
to
this
is
not
a
bright
and
shiny
wine
.
Technically
speaking
,
$10
wines
are
just
bright
and
juicy
and
shiny
and
happy
.
This
one
is
a
little
more
brooding
,
a
little
more
um
,
a
little
more
of
a
food
wine
.
This
is
kind
of
a
chardonnay
old
school
school
Chardonnay
,
not
100%
.
Another
thing
I
think
they
did
I
don't
know
they
did
.
I
think
they
did
partial
malolactic
fermentation
.
Malolactic
fermentation
takes
the
tart
acid
that
is
naturally
in
the
grapes
and
replaces
it
or
just
converts
it
to
a
lactic
lactose
milk
.
That's
everything
rounded
acid
and
and
it
kind
of
like
there's
some
tart
flavors
here
and
some
others
,
so
usually
if
there's
still
tart
flavors
flowing
through
,
they
didn't
do
all
of
it
malolactic
fermentation
.
So
this
one's
got
a
couple
different
kinds
of
oak
and
possibly
and
I'm
just
going
off
guessing
that
maybe
a
little
bit
of
,
uh
,
different
types
of
malolactic
fermentation
or
no
malolactic
on
certain
parts
of
it
,
which
is
pretty
fancy
for
a
9.99
wine
.
I'll
take
another
sip
.
It's
good
,
it
tastes
good
,
this
isa
.
This
is
a
well
balanced
,
tasty
wine
.
Speaker 1
5:18
One
of
the
things
about
these
Trader
Joe's
Reserve
wines
is
like
this
is
from
the
Arroyo
Seco
,
I
think
.
Another
one
they
have
out
currently
is
one
from
the
Canaros
region
,
chardonnay
.
So
if
you
buy
the
two
of
them
,
you
can
kind
of
get
a
little
bit
of
insight
in
what
Canaros
tastes
like
and
what
Arroyo
Seco
.
One
is
just
north
of
San
Pablo
Bay
,
canaros
,
east
of
Oakland
.
The
other
one
is
on
the
coast
in
the
Salinas
Valley
off
of
Monterey
Bay
,
and
they're
going
to
taste
different
but
they're
still
going
to
be
Chardonnay
grape
.
So
it's
one
of
those
things
where
you
can
actually
learn
a
bit
about
and
get
a
good
wine
at
a
good
price
$10
for
a
solid
wine
.
That's
delicious
.
I
mean
.
This
is
a
good
tasting
wine
.
Speaker 1
6:05
The
grapes
from
the
Royal
Seco
they
don't
normally
end
up
in
inexpensive
bottles
unless
there's
some
leftover
and
all
the
Costco
Trader
Joe's
gets
a
hold
of
them
.
So
I'm
gonna
take
one
more
sip
before
I
close
it
up
.
Okay
,
this
is
a
Trader
Joe's
reserve
,
a
Royal
Seco
Chardonnay
2020
.
Was
that
two
or
23
?
Let
me
check
the
bottle
23
.
Really
new
.
It's
delicious
,
tastes
good
.
Try
it
if
you
go
to
Trader
Joe's
,
so
like
us
where
you
like
your
podcast
,
if
you
will
.
It
helps
a
lot
.
This
is
Domain
Dave
.
We've
got
more
wines
coming
.
I
can't
believe
that
February
is
like
the
last
month
of
winter
.
We're
almost
through
it
.
So
,
adios
,
stay
warm
and
I'll
be
talking
to
everybody
in
a
couple
days
.
Bye-bye
,
keep
it
cheap
.
