Trader Joe’s $6 Food Wine-Foggy Veil Paso Robles Grenache 2023

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Hey
welcome.
Domain
Dave
here
from
Cheapwine
Piner.com.
As
always,
talking
about
value-priced
wines
in
a
world
where
there
are
no
new
wines.
Something
just
fell
off.
The
wine
industry
with
the
wheels
came
off.
I
don't
know
what's
going
on,
but
we've
got
a
new
one
today.
It's
the
uh
it's
$5.99
from
Trader
Joe's,
and
it's
the
Foggy
Vale
Paso
Robles
Brinache
2023.
It
is
from
the
Miller
family
uh
of
vineyards.
Uh
Miller
family
has
been
in
California
one
way
or
another
since
the
1870s,
but
themselves
farming
since
the
1940s,
and
having
vineyards
since
the
1970s,
and
they
own
a
couple
of
the
most
well-respected
vineyards
in
the
Central
Coast.
This
one
is
out
of
Paso
Robos,
which
they're
from.
I
don't
know.
There's
no
there's
no
notes
or
anything
about
this.
I
don't
know
why
they
never
can
put
notes
on
how
it
was
made
or
whatever
from
a
from
an
inexpensive
wine,
because
all
you
gotta
do
is
write
up
one
page
of
just
brief
things
that
would
be
interesting,
and
they
never
do.
So
um
so
we
have
a
Garnache,
though
not
a
Garnache,
a
Grenache.
Uh
Garnache
is
from
Grenache
is
from
the
Rhone
Valley
for
the
most
part
in
France,
and
then
there's
Garnacha
from
Spain.
I'm
not
sure
if
it's
French
or
Spanish,
though
there
is
a
town
in
Spain,
northeast
Spain,
that
is
called
Garnacha,
so
maybe
it's
from
a
town
with
the
name,
but
I
don't
know.
It's
never
really
that
simple
for
some
reason.
Grenache
is
usually
a
blending
grape,
and
often
it
is
teamed
with
uh
with
Syrah
and
others,
but
Syrah
is
the
main
one.
Grenache
is
sleek
and
kind
of
focused,
and
Syrah
is
big
and
juicy,
and
you
put
those
two
together,
and
what
Grenache
doesn't
have
Syrah
does,
and
what
Syrah
doesn't
have
Grenache
does,
that's
a
good
thing.
So
you
don't
get
um
Grenache
on
its
own
that
often,
but
it
is
a
thing.
It
is
a
good
grape,
and
it
can
be
nice.
It
tends
to
be
dark
and
focused.
Take
a
sip.
It's
um
blackberry,
a
little
bit
of
spice
to
it,
maybe
some
raspberry
in
there,
licorice,
and
then
I've
I've
everything
I
read
on
it
there
talking
about
there's
licorice,
and
yeah,
there
is.
It's
uh
it's
a
nice
licorice,
but
it's
all
those
dark
flavors.
Smacking
my
lips
a
little
bit.
As
it
opens
up,
it
when
I
first
tasted
it,
it
was
kind
of
tight,
and
um
the
fruit
wasn't
really
rounded,
and
now
it's
a
little
bit
more
rounded.
Just
ignore
a
sip.
And
I
wouldn't
say
this
is
a
sipping
wine
per
se.
It's
$5.99
and
it's
kind
of
strange
to
say
that
a
$5.99
wine
is
a
food
wine,
but
I'm
thinking
that
a
burrito
bowl
from
Chipotle,
a
steak
burrito
bowl,
or
even
any
of
those
ones
that's
a
spice
would
go
great
with
this.
I
mean,
you
don't
need
to
spend
a
fortune.
I
mean,
in
in
Europe,
uh
the
places
where
they
have
um
wine
with
their
meals,
uh
lunch
and
dinner,
uh,
they
don't
spend
a
lot
of
money
for
their
wines.
They
just
don't.
So
inexpensive
food
wines
is
actually
the
norm,
not
the
not
the
standout.
So
um
this
wine
would
be
good
with
uh
tacos,
uh
burgers,
you
know,
maybe
not
McDonald's,
maybe,
but
it
could
be.
But
if
you
got
a
place
that
actually
makes
a
nice
burger
somewhere,
this
would
go
with
it.
I
mean,
if
you
just
want
to
pop
a
top
out
of
a
bottle
and
you
know
be
very
continental
while
you're
eating
burgers
and
fries,
yeah,
this
would
do
it.
Yeah,
it's
smoothing
out
as
it
opens
up.
I
had
it
open
for
an
hour,
but
now
it's
um
it's
kind
of
reaching
its
uh
its
peak.
It
is
it's
actually
odd
to
me
that
sometimes
the
least
expensive
wines
need
to
be
decanted
more
than
the
most
expensive
wines.
Because
uh
least
expensive
wines,
$5.99,
need
all
the
help
they
can
get.
Another
thing
that's
kind
of
odd
about
this,
about
a
year
ago,
uh
Trader
Joe's
had
a
um
Paso
Roberts
Ganache
from
the
Beckett
family
vineyards.
It
was
uh
uh
like
10
bucks.
That
was
really,
really
good.
This
one
is
growing
on
me,
but
it's
not
that
status.
And
that
was
a
2023
too,
and
that
was
released
a
year
ago.
It
was
July
17th,
and
we
did
a
review
on
it.
I
got
a
link
to
that
on
the
website,
the
cheap
winefighter,
for
the
review.
And
uh
and
my
thought
was
okay,
if
they
released
that
a
year
ago,
what's
this
been
doing
for
a
year?
I
don't
know.
Which
kind
of
tells
me
that
you
don't
sit
a
$5.99
wine
around
for
an
extra
year
just
to
do
it.
So,
you
know,
I
don't
know,
I
don't
know
the
history
of
this,
I
don't
know
anything
else,
but
I
suspect
it
was
never
made
to
be
$5.99.
Though
the
one
thing
about
the
Miller
family
um
is
way
back
in
the
day,
they
well,
I
think
they
still
do,
they
all
call
it
the
same
name,
but
Central
Coast
Wine
Warehouse,
it
was
a
custom
crush.
They
made,
they
made
wines
for
people.
If
you're
a
restaurant
and
you
wanted
your
own
wines,
they
would
make
it
for
you.
Trader
Joe's.
I
think
there
was
a
time
where
at
least
a
quarter
of
the
wines
on
the
shelves
were
uh
from
the
Central
Coast
wine,
and
they
were
usually
pretty
good.
So
the
Miller
family's
been
um
they
have
their
own
wines,
but
they
had
they've
been
affiliated
with
Trader
Joe's
in
a
very
good
way
for
a
long
time.
So
there
we
go.
This
is
one
open
it
up,
get
some,
get
it
with
food
where
it
can
it
can
really
reach
its
balance.
Sippin',
I
don't
know.
You
might
like
it
sipping.
Food,
definitely.
So
adios,
keep
it
cheap.
This
is
domain
day.
Uh
there
we
go.
Uh
I'll
be
talking
in
a
couple
days
about
I'm
not
sure
what,
but
something
good.
So
adios,
keep
it
cheap.
I'll
be
talking.
Bye
bye.