Send us Fan Mail Aldi Hwy 5 Chardonnay 2021- $4.99-Drink Like The French, No!, I am Serious! I recently talked to a French winemaker that the average French family spent about 5 dollars on their daily bottle of wine. They drink wine with the meal, not at night as an alcoholic beverage. We Americans, as…
Read MoreSend us Fan Mail Trader Joe's DOC Prosecco- $9- Real Cheap-Real Good This is a Trader Joe's labeled Prosecco as opposed to the other Prosecco brands they sell with Trader Joe's only names. This is a Prosecco made by Zonin an excellent family-owned producer. It is delicious, it is well-balanced and well-made. Need I say…
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The Trader Joe’s DOC Prosecco is an $8.99 import exclusive for a Sparkling wine from the Prosecco region of Veneto in Northern Italy. The back label says a branch of Zonin, a large and excellent Italian wine producer produced it. If you are new to Prosecco, this Bubbly is made from the Glera grape which…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Coastal Merlot 2022-The Perfect $5 Taco Tuesday Wine The Trader Joe's Castal brand has been made by the same winery for at least 10 years and has always sold for $4.99. How they kept the same price for ten years, I don't know. The winery involved is an excellent…
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The Trader Joe’s Coastal Merlot 2022 is a $4.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The winery of record on the back label is Castoro Cellars from Paso Robles, California. The label says “vinted and bottled by” which does not mean that much anymore. A winery and its equipment may be organized into one entity or LLC, the…
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Send us Fan Mail Kidia Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2023- Trader Joe's Excellent $6 Sauv Blanc estate wine! This is a Trader Joe's exclusive import wine from a family-owned winery that has been in business for 200 years. Six dollars gets you an excellent Chillean Sauvignon Blanc! Cheap wine is awesome! Check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and listen…
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The Kidia Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2023 is a $5.99 wine, at Trader Joe’s it sells for $5.99, it seems to be a $10 wine elsewhere. It is an Estate wine produced by Vina del Pedregal (VDP), a family-owned winery located in Loncomilla Valley in the Maule Valley of Chile. They were founded in 1825 with…
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Send us Fan Mail Cuy Natural Malbec 2022-Trader Joe's-$10-Organic-Vegan Friendly-Low Sulfite-Delicious Wine This is a wine from Santa Julia which is part of the Zuccardi Family of wines. They make very good wine. This may be a Trader Joe's only wine, I am not sure. It is certified organic, estate-grown, and produced, Vegan Friendly, and…
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The Cuy Natural Malbec 2022 is a$9.99 wine at Trader Joe’s. Santa Julia Winery, part of the Zuccardi Wines family of brands, makes it. Zuccardi and Santa Julia are top-notch wine producers who make excellent quality wine. One of their wines may not be made in your style, but the vineyards and the production will…
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Send us Fan Mail Aldi Specially Selected Cremant de Bordeaux Brut Rosé-$12 AOP Bordeaux Cremant Aldi wines were virtually stagnant during 2023. In Aldi Europe, there were more than 50 Specially Selected wines released in the last portion of 2023, but most did not make it to the US. They offered 8 different French Cremant…
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The Aldi Specially Selected Cremant de Bordeaux Brut Rosé is a $11.99 Aldi import exclusive. The Aldi Specially Selected brand includes at least 55 wines in Europe, my local Ald’s never had more than 5 or 6. They had Cremant wines from France’s (8) Cremant AOP areas. Cremant translates to “creamy” but it stands for…
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Send us Fan Mail Chronic Cellars Suite Petite Petite Sirah 2021- Juicy and Delicious This is a wine brand started by the Beckett Brothers who are the sons of Doug Beckett of Peachy Canyon fame. This is a brand of wine that makes quality wines but does not take itself too seriously. This Petite Sirah…
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The Chronic Cellars Suite Petite Petite Sirah 2021 is sourced from vineyards in Paso Robles in California’s Central Coast AVA. It is 90% Petite Sirah and 10% Syrah. This brand was founded (in 2004) by the Beckett Brothers, the sons of Doug Beckett who was the owner of Peachy Canyon Wines, one of the folks…
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Send us Fan Mail Butternut Chardonnay 2021- A reasonably oaked Chardonnay This is a Chardonnay I found for $11.99. Butternut is part of the Miller Family Line of wines, they are located in Paso Robles, but the Butternut Chardonnay is from grapes all over California. This is a good-tasting Chardonnay if you like a little…
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The Butternut Chardonnay 2021 is a wine I found for $11.99, the label says the grapes came from California. Butternut is one of the brands in the Miller Family Wines line of wines. The Miller Family Wines also own Central Coast Wine Warehouse, a custom wine producer, who ten years ago was a major producer…
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Send us Fan Mail Chateau de Gretels Prestige Cahors 2021-Costco $8 bucks-90 Points! This is a $7.99 Costco wine from Cahors in France. It is 70% Malbec (Cahors is known for Malbec) and 30% Merlot. It is an estate wine, grown from vineyards located in some of the best Terrior in Cahors. And did I…
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The Chateau de Gretels Prestige Cahors 2021 is a $7.99 Costco import wine and it seems to sell for about $12 in places that Costco does not serve. Cahors is a village in southwest France, the surrounding vineyards are known for growing the Malbec grape. In recent years Malbec from Argentina has become a trendy…
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Send us Fan Mail Kirkland Signature Bordeaux Supérieur 2021-A $6,89 Costco Bargain Half of the wines from Bordeaux sell for under twenty bucks, in Napa about 2% of the wines sell for under $20. Ok, I wasn't taking into account all the store brands that sell for $19.99. In that case, 1% of Napa wines…
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The Kirkland Signature Bordeaux Supérieur 2021 is a $6.89 Costco import exclusive. The .89 in the price typically denotes a special low price but the 2020 version was $6.99 so 10 cents is not much of a discount. This Red is made by Chateau Petit-Freylon a small estate near the town of Saint-Genis-du-Bois, this winery…
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Send us Fan Mail Peaks & Tides Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2021- A Good $12.99 Aldi Wine! The Sonoma Coast is an elite Pinot Noir growing region. This $12.99 Aldo Pinot Noir is not made in the same way as the $65 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, but it is a legit drink it now Pinot…
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The Peaks & Tides Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2021 is a $12.99 Aldi exclusive. This is a reoccurring wine, this brand also includes a Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon. I did a little digging and found that Plata Wine Partners produces this wine for Aldi. Plata Partners says they are the “largest independent California coastal…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Los Carneros Brut Sparkling Wine 2019-$12.99-Buy It-Drink It This is a vintage-dated Bubbly from an elite-growing region. 2019 Carneros Bubblt sells for $35 and up, not $12.99. This is Trader Joe's gift to 2023 wine drinkers. Don't miss it! For more info check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and listen to…
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The Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Los Carneros Brut Sparkling Wine 2019 is a $12.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. This Bubbly is a blend of 84% Pinot Noir and 16% Chardonnay sourced from grapes grown in the Carneros AVA, located inside both the Sonoma AVA and the Napa AVA. Carneros sits on the northern shore of San…
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Send us Fan Mail Matias Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021-A Wine Well Worth Searching For! This is a brand from winemaker Dan Fitzpatrick, who has worked for some of the best wineries in California. The brand may be hard to find and there seem to be different brands for each wine from a different AVA…
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The Matias Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 is a bit of a mystery wine, their website is gone, and their trail leads to more than one place. They seem to have two vintages of this Cabernet Sauvignon, a 2019 vintage and this 2021. The 2019 was one of the best in recent years and the…
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