The Fess Parker Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2023 sells for $14.49 at Costco which is about two bucks cheaper than most internet wine shops. Santa Barbara is at the southern end of the Central Coast AVA, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The Fess Parker winery was founded in 1988. In the late 1950s and…
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Send us a text Kirkland Signature Russian River Pinot Noir 2023-New Vintage Of Costco $12 Pinot Costco hires a new winemaker each year to make this wine. So each vintage has a new vision of what value-priced Russian River Valley Pinot Noir can be. If you follow this Costco wine each year you will gain…
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The Kirkland Signature Russian River Pinot Noir 2023 is a $11.99 Costco exclusive. This wine is released every year, and Costco has a new winemaker producing it about every year. CWF reviewed the 2021 vintage of this wine, and then Nancy Walker was the winemaker; this year, it is Alison Crowe. Alison Crowe is the…
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Send us a text Slice Skin Contact White Wine 2023-What Is Orange Wine? Orange wine is made from White wine grapes, not oranges. It is called Orange wine because White wine has no grape skin contact with the pressed juice and Orange wine has weeks of skin contact with the juice. I just explained all…
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The Slice Skin Contact White Wine 2023 is a $12 Trader Joe’s wine produced for them by Bozzano & Co. headquartered in the San Luis Obispo AVA of California’s Central Coast. This is a White wine blend with 24% Chenin Blanc, 18% Pinot Gris, 12% Colombard, 9% Xarel.lo, 8% Verdelho, 6% Vermentino, 3% Gewurztraminer, 3%…
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Send us a text William Walker Monterey Chardonnay 2023-Aldi's New $8 Chardonnay The $7 Chardonnay from Aldi was branded William Wright Chardonnay. This bottling is so close it looks like this may be its replacement. Is it any good? Yes, drinks well and is very useful at eight bucks. This is a wine worth drinking….
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The William Walker Monterey Chardonnay 2023 is a $7.99 Aldi exclusive, if the name sounds familiar, the previous Aldi value Chardonnay was the William Wright Chardonnay ($6.99). This Chardonnay is produced for Aldi by Plata Wine Partners, which has over 60 vineyards totaling 18,000+ acres and a talented winemaking team. They have also produced several…
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Send us a text Upper Eden Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2022-$12.99 & Ready For Thanksgiving This is a Trader Joe's exclusive wine from an AVA in the heights above the Salinas Valley near the Monterey Bay. It is a prime location for Pinot Noir grapes and this is a well-made, well-priced Pinot Noir wine….
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The Upper Eden Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2022 is a $12.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive wine bottled by Upper Eden Wines, a Bozzano & Company custom wine producer located in San Luis Obispo, California. They have produced some of the more interesting recent Trader Joe’s wine. The name Upper Eden comes from Steinbeck’s book East…
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Send us a text Trader Joe's Reserve Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Syrah 2023 This is a $9.99 Trader Joe's exclusive. Horse Heaven Hills in south central Columbia Valley, Washington. This is an AVA that can produce 100-point wines and value-priced wines. For more information check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and of course, listen to the best value-priced wine…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Syrah 2023 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The blend is 74% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Syrah. The Horse Heaven Hills AVA is located in the south-central portion of the Columbia Valley of Washington. It got its name because the first settlers to the area found…
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.The Trader Joe’s Platinum Reserve Napa Meritage 2022 is a $17.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The back label says this wine was “vinted and Bottles by” JBA Cellars in Rutherford, California. Vinted and bottled legally means they bottled the wine and possibly did some aging, so JBA Cellars is a company set up to keep us…
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Send us a text Trader Joe's Reserve North Coast Brut (2024)-Bang For The Holiday Buck This is a North Coast AVA which is Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake County, Marin County, And Solano County. The grapes are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Pinoy Blanc which are grapes approved in Champagne France. Trader Joe's has Rack…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve North Coast Brut (2024) is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The North Coast AVA is Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa, and Lake County, which are the best known but also Marin County and Solano County. This Bubbly is made for TJ’s by Rack and Riddle of Healdsburg California. Rack and Riddle is a…
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Send us a text Scarlet Path Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel 2022-$8 @ Aldi This is a quality Value-priced wine. It won't blow your mind and it won't have you telling your friends, but it is very sippable. It will pair well with comfort foods. And it is a nice Zinfandel. For more of the story…
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The Scarlet Path Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel 2022 is a $7.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. It was made for Aldi by a branch of a large, family-owned, organic winery located in the Monterey AVA of California’s Central Coast. Since this isn’t an organic wine, it seems they purchased the grapes from local Lodu growers. The Scarley…
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Send us a text Trader Joe's Platinum Reserve Napa Meritage 2022- $17.99 But Real Good Who made this wine? Where in Napa were the grapes grown? We don't know. Is it worth $17.99? Well, Yes. It drinks very well! For all of the information you need check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and listen to the PODCAST!!! Check us…
Read MoreSend us a text Super Happy Happy Canyon AVA Red 2023-TJ's +Field Recording=Buy It! Field Recordings is a winery from San Luis Obispo from the winemaker Andrew Jones. He searches the Central Coast looking for abandoned or little-used vineyards. He has the know-how to revitalize this vineyard and have them produce amazing wine again. Happy…
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The Super Happy Happy Canyon AVA Red 2023 is a ten-buck Trader Joe’s exclusive. This Red is made by Field Recordings, an excellent winery in San Luis Obispo, inside Paso Robles. I searched the internet for information on this bottling and found nothing, leading me to believe it is only available at Trader Joe’s. Field…
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Send us a text Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Carneros Chardonnay 2023- Think Thanksgiving Meal! This is a large and in charge, yet balanced Carneros Chardonnay. As a Grand Reserve wine, it sells for $12.99, yet I think it may be closer to a $25 Chardonnay. The wine market is contracting in 2024 and wine that…
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The Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Carneros Chardonnay 2023 is a $12.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer indicates that the 2023 vintage returns after a six-year absence. Carneros is a high-end wine district, and the California wine business has been booming in the last few years. However, the boom is turning into something…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve Carneros Rosé of Pinot Noir 2023 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. I shortened the title for Google it is Trader Joe’s Reserve Rosé of Pinot Noir Los Carneros Napa Valley 2023. The Carneros AVA encompasses both parts of Sonoma and Napa. The Napa part is known as Los Carneros. The…
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Send us a text Trader Joe's Reserve Carneros Rosé of Pinot Noir 2023-A Whole Lotta Rosé This is a Trader Joe's $9.99 exclusive Pinot Noir Rosé sourced from the Napa side of the Carneros AVA, it is referred to as Los Carneros. It is a quality Rosé wine. For all the information you should listen…
Read MoreSend us a text 19 Crimes Frankenstein Cabernet Sauvignon-The Freaks Come Out At Night This wine has a cool drawing of Frankenstein on the Label, it is licensed from Universal MONSTERS. There is a Bride Of Frankenstein Red blend and I thought saw a Dracula wine. This is a non-vintage Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from vineyards…
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The 19 Crimes Frankenstein Cabernet Sauvignon is a non-vintage wine sourced from grapes grown in SouthEast Australia. I found it at Target for $9.99. It may be a non-vintage wine, but it has a glow-in-the-dark Frankenstein Label (authorized by Universal Monsters), and if you scan the back label and turn the camera on your phone…
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