The Decoy Brut Cuvée is a blend of 49% Pinot Noir, 47% Chardonnay, and 4% Pinot Meunier sourced from vineyards in several locations in California. Decoy is one of Duckhorn Vineyards’ wines; they are a high-end winery founded by Dan and Margret Duckhorn in 1976. The Decoy line of wines started as Duckhorn’s second line…
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High Guard Chardonnay 2019 – TJ's $6.99 Tuesday Night Chardonnay Can $6.99 get you a tasty wine with quality oak barrel flavors? Yes, it can! Ain't Trader Joe's great? $6.99 barely gets you a passable cup of coffee, and Trader Joe's is rocking a quality Chardonnay. We are living in extraordinary times where good wine…
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The High Guard Chardonnay 2019 is a $6.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from vineyards located in several California AVA’s. This is a wine produced for Trader Joe’s by a custom wine company making wine for TJ’s for several years. I read that half of the wineries in California are faux-wineries, meaning that they do not…
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African Hills Cape Town Sauvignon Rosé 2020 – ALDI Sauvignon Blanc Rosé? Would a Rosé by any other name taste just as sweet? Yeah, I am stealing from Shakespeare? He won't tell. Check out the www.cheapwinefinder.com review for all the details. Is this a fancy Rosé? Or is this a Sauvignon Blanc from Cape Town,…
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The African Hills Cape Town Sauvignon Rosé 2020 is a $6.99 ALDI import wine from the Cape Town growing region of South Africa. The Rosé is a blend of 93% Sauvignon Blanc and 7% Cabernet Sauvignon. Fun Wine Fact: Sauvignon Blanc is the genetic parent of Cabernet Sauvignon. Ok, here is a Rosé refresher. Rosé…
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Ok, this is an easy one. A Cheapwinefinder tip is to drink Garnacha. Grenache wine. Another Cheapwinefinder tip is to follow the Importer. This wine pushes both of those buttons, Check out www. cheapwinefinder.com for all the details. Check us out at www.cheapwinefinder.com or email us at podcast@cheapwinefinder.com
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The Evodia Garnacha 2018 is sourced from 40 to 100-year-old vines in vineyards located in the foothill of the Sierra Santa Cruz Mountains in the Calatayud region in northeast Spain. This is a wine that sells for around $10 and is a perennial 90+ point wine. It has been a bang-for-the-buck favorite for years. Here…
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Studio By Miraval Rosé 2020 – Budget-Friendly Rosé From Brad & Angelina A wine from the south of France and not a Provence wine? Yes, this is a taste of the south of France Rosé. But with Miraval's winemaker. Maybe not AOC estate grapes; this is an IGP wine, but with a top-notch winemaker. Good…
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The Studio By Miraval Rosé 2020 is a blend of Cinsault, Grenache, Rolle, and Tibouren grapes sourced from various vineyards in the French Riviera in the south of France. The French Riviera includes the Cote d’Azur and the well-known Cotes d Provence wine regions. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie own Miraval; even after the divorce,…
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Villa Borghetti Grigio Luna Pinot Grigio 2020 – TJ's Italian Summer Cooler $5.99 from Trader Joe's, it is a DOC wine from the Delle Venzie region of northeast Italy. Alto Adige is the most famous and pricey Pinot Grigio region in Italy, and Delle Venzie is just south of there. This is a summer cooler,…
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The Villa Borghetti Grigio Luna Pinot Grigio 2020 is a $5.99 import Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Delle Venzie DOC of Northeast Italy. The Delle Venzie region specializes in White wine grapes and grows German grape varietals and Italian, but is best known for Pinot Grigio. The Villa Borghetti Grigio Luna Pinot…
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A 14.99 at Trader Joe's, a typical Diamond Mountain Cabernet, sells for between $55 and $350. Is this a $55 Cab selling for $14.99? Probably not. Those wines have a price based on the reputation of the winery that made them. This is a mystery wine. Does that mean this wine does not taste good?…
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The Trader Joe’s Platinum Reserve Diamond Mountain District Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 is a $14.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive; this is also Lot #92, which may be important in this series of wines. For the last six months, TraderJoe’s has offered a line of small-batch wines featuring grapes from premier Napa Valley sub-AVA’s. Are these wines…
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Beaujolais Rosé all day. This is an excellent, well-made, rather tasty, $7.99 ALDI French wine. An AOC Beaujolais wine, nothing fancy, bi Beaujolais Villages or Cru, but again it is selling for only $7.99. For all the tasting notes and information, check out www.cheapwinefinder.com. This may be my favorite Rosé so far this summer! Check…
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The Antoine Delaune Beaujolais Rosé 2020 is a $7.99 ALDI import exclusive. Beaujolais is a growing region in France that is located just south of Burgundy. The Champagne wine region is on the North end of Burgundy. The main grapes of Burgundy and Champagne are Pinot Noir and Chardonnay; the main grape of Beaujolais is…
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Domaine Jean Bousquet Brut Rose – Summer Bubbly From Argentina A mashup of Champagne grapes, Pinot Noir (75%), and Chardonnay (25%) made in the Italian style (Charmat Method) by a French Languedoc wine family producing wine in the Uco Valley of Argentina. A well-priced Bubbly with delicious flavor and excellent acidity. There is nothing not…
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The Domaine Jean Bousquet Brut Rose is a non-vintage Sparkling wine, 95% Pinot Noir and 25% Chardonnay sourced from Estate vineyards in the foothills of the Tupungato Mountain in the Uco Valley of Mendoza in Argentina. Tupungato is one of the tallest mountains in the Americas, and the vineyards are situated at 4,000 feet. Domaine…
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Los Vascos Cromas Gran Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 – Why Chile ? This is the Domaines Barons De Rothschild (Lafite) property in the Colchagua Valley in Chile; they have been there since 1988. One of the Legends of Bordeaux making classic wines in Chile. This is a wine that should sell for about $20, it…
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The Los Vascos Cromas Gran Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Syrah, and 5% Carménère sourced from Estate vineyards of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Colchagua Valley vineyard and winery in central Chile. This Estate was founded in 1988 and was the first French wine project in modern Chile. Barons de Rothschild…
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Vin Seven Unoaked Chardonnay 2019- A $4.99 Bang For The Buck Wine. Is this a 7-11 wine or a Trader Joe's wine? At $4.99, who cares. A tasty unoaked Chardonnay with a heat-sensitive label changes the color of the angel wings when the temps hit 50 degrees. 50 degrees is too cold, but if the…
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The Vin Seven Unoaked Chardonnay 2019 is a $4.99 wine that I found at Trader Joe’s, but the 7 in the Vin Seven name stands for 7/Eleven. At one time, the Vin Seven Unoaked Chardonnay 2019 was a 7/Eleven exclusive wine. Sonoma Bespoke makes custom private-label wines for Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Aldi, grocery store chains,…
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$4.45 for a wine from Portugal? Adult Koolade, brisk, citrusy, with just a touch of fizz. Perfect for hat summer days and nights. Not a fussy wine, pour into a Yehti personal cooler, drink it with a straw, enjoy! check out the full review at www.cheapwinefinder.com for all the details Check us out at www.cheapwinefinder.com…
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The Espiral Vinho Verde – Trader Joe’s is a $4.45 Trader Joe’s exclusive. Vinho Verde is a region in Northern Portugal and not a particular grape. These wines are typically inexpensive wines with bright acidity and bracing citrus flavors. They are also a little fizzy. Vinho Verde wines were originally slightly carbonated because the winemakers…
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Poppy Santa Lucia Highland Chardonnay 2017 – A Very Interesting Chardonnay A single vineyard Estate grown Chardonnay. They picked the grapes at different levels of ripeness over a month in the fall. Poppy produced this Chardonnay with three different production methods. Listen to the podcast or check out the review on www.cheapwinefinder.com for all the…
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The Poppy Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay 2017 is sourced from Poppy’s Highland vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands sub-AVA inside the Monterey AVA, which is inside the Central Coast AVA of California. The Santa Lucia Highlands is exactly what the name suggests; it is located in the foothills of the Santa Lucia coastal mountains. This…
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