Send us Fan Mail Louis Pommery Brut NV-$20-Thinking French-Drinking California I was about to buy a $14.99 Trader Joe's Reserve Sonoma Sparkling wine when I remembered there are Napa/Sonoma outposts of celebrated Champagne Houses. The Louis Pommery sells for $20, and it's Champagne big brother is CHampagne Pommery, the creator of Brut Champagne. I do…
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The Louis Pommery Brut NV is a blend of 95% Chardonnay, and 5% Pinot Noir sourced from vineyards in California. This Sparkling wine is the California version of Champagne Pommery (founded in 1858), with Madame Pommery creating Brut (dry, not sweet) Champagne in 1874. Pommery has had a winery in Napa since 2004. The same…
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Send us Fan Mail Bortolomiol 70th Anniversary DOCG Brut Nature Prosecco 2017-Try Vintage Prosecco Prosecco is the number 1 selling Sparkling wine in the world! Champagne makes more money. Is non-vintage supermarket Prosecco the best they can do? Nope, check out the vintage-dated Prosecco's; they can be single-vineyard, extremely high-end wines that do not sell…
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The Bortolomiol 70th Anniversary DOCG Brut Nature Prosecco 2017 is a limited edition wine sourced from a single estate DOCG vineyard in the Valdobbiadene area of the Prosecco growing region the Veneto district of northern Italy. This Bubbly commentates the 70th year of Bortolomiol, though the winery goes back more than 200 years in one…
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Send us Fan Mail Buttery Barrel Chardonnay 2020-$7 Aldi-Buttery But Not Too Buttery Ok, I said I was going to go into why I bought this wine and then got distracted (look a squirrel). But no problem, the things I did talk about did describe this Chardonnay, and I didn't forget to explain my purchase…
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The Buttery Barrel Chardonnay 2020 is a $6.99 Aldi sourced from vineyards in California. The back label says, Cattlemen Ridge Wines produced this Chardonnay, and they are owned by Scheid Family Vineyards of Monterey, California. Scheid makes many wines for both Aldi and Trader Joe’s; they produce their own high-end wines and have many value-priced…
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Send us Fan Mail Trader Joe's Reserve North Coast Brut Rosé Sparkling Wine Will a Champagne by another name taste just as sweet? Tell Willie the Shake that modern Bubbly rocks. Making good Bubbly was difficult back in the day, and the folks in Champagne figured out the key to the puzzle. Today the technology…
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The Trader Joe’s Reserve North Coast Brut Rosé Sparkling Wine is a $9.99 Bubbly exclusive produced by Rack and Riddle of Healdsburg, California. Rack and Riddle is a custom wine brand winery that specializes in Sparkling wine. If you have had a value-priced Bubbly from California, it is possible that it was made at Rack…
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Send us Fan Mail Seghesio Sonoma County Zinfandel 2019-Affordable Luxury In the last six weeks of the year, we at Cheapwinefinder start to go upscale. Tuesday night bargain wines are not as important, Something nice to open for friends and family is the way to go. And of course, we can not pop the top…
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The Seghesio Sonoma County Zinfandel 2019 is a blend of 55% estate fruit, from Sonoma Valley, the Russian River Valley, Alexander Valley, and Dry Creek, along with 45% grapes from long term contracted vineyards. This is Seghesio’s “entry-level” Zinfandel bottling, though it is hard to call any wine that has received 90 points plus eleven…
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Send us Fan Mail Upper Eden Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2019-$12.99 Of Pinot Noir Goodness Check out http://www.cheapwinefinder.com and listen to the podcast for all the details!!! Check us out at http://www.cheapwinefinder.com or email us at [email protected]
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The Upper Eden Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 2019 is a $12.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive wine made for them by an independent specialty wine brand producer located in the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA of Monterey County in California’s Central Coast. The vineyards sit in the highlands or benchlands of the Santa Lucia Mountains with elevations…
Read MoreSend us Fan Mail Heartleaf California Rosé 2020- $6 Adult Rosé That Would Pair With Thanksgiving. A $5.99 Trader Joe's Rosé is produced in the same manner as the inexpensive European food wines. In France, Italy, etc., they drink wine that sells for a few euros with each meal. The wine is inexpensive, but the…
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The Heartleaf California Rosé 2020 is a $5.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive produced by a private brand winery located in Napa. The last few Trader Joe’s wines we reviewed were also sold at retail wine shops in New York, and Trader Joe’s prices are 40% to 50% than the same wines at the retail shop. While…
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Send us Fan Mail Maison Barboulot Cabernet Syrah 2020-TJ's $6 Everyday French Red A $5.99 Trader Joe's Red Blend sells for $9.99 in New York and $10 or $11 in Germany. It seems that Trader Joe's provides for actual bargains. A blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and 50% Syrah sourced from the Languedoc region of…
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The Maison Barboulot Cabernet Syrah 2020 is a $5.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive wine in places where Trader Joe’s can sell wine. In New York, grocery stores can only sell beer, so this Red blend is $9.99 in New York. In Germany, the Maison Barboulot Cabernet Syrah 2020 is 9 Euros which equals about $10 or…
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Send us Fan Mail Quarter Cut Bourbon Barrel Chardonnay 2019-Whiskey Wood Wine. This is an Aldi $9.99 Chardonnay produced for them by Fetzer located in Hopland, California. Fetzer is a certified B corporation meaning that they are at the highest standards environmental and social issues. They have a history of using whiskey oak barrels in…
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The Quarter Cut Bourbon Barrel Chardonnay 2019 is a $9.99 Aldi exclusive wine, and it is part of a line of wines aged in bourbon barrels and wine barrels. Aldi owns the Quarter Cut name trademark, but according to the California COLA website, the wine is produced by Fetzer of Hopland, California. Fetzer has a…
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Send us Fan Mail Hwy 5 Chardonnay 2020- A New $4.99 Aldi Wine $4.99 is way too cheap for a decent wine, right? Well, probably not. We have already figured out that store-brand wines are at least 40% cheaper than an equivalent retail wine shop wine. So, is this wine any good? Well, I…
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The Hwy 5 Chardonnay 2020 is a $4.99 Aldi wine sourced from vineyards in California. The back label says this wine was produced by a company located in Modesto, California. That typically indicates that some entity of E & J Gallo had a hand in the production. There is no technical production information available for…
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Send us Fan Mail Patricia Green Cellars Dollar Bills Only Pinot Noir 2020-You Are Going To Want This One! This wine has a story. There were fires and smoke in Willamette Valley, Oregon, in September of 2020. The smoke was in the area of the estate vineyards for Patricia Green Cellars. They decided to declassify…
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The Patricia Green Cellars Dollar Bills Only Pinot Noir 2020 is farmed from estate vineyards in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. This is a bottling they produce only under a particular circumstance, and it isn’t a wine they make every year, not that they would want to. The 2020 grape harvest was marred by fires…
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Send us Fan Mail Burlwood Cellars Extra Dry Sparkling Wine-ALDI $5 Bubbly…Any Good? A $5 ALDI Bubbly from E & J Gallo can't be any good. This wine sells for $10 to $12 in Florida, and Bubbles in that price range can get the job done in style. Are you going to complain because you…
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The Burlwood Cellars Extra Dry Sparkling Wine is a $4.99 ALDI wine produced by E & J Gallo, the largest family-owned wine company in the US. While this is a five-dollar Bubbly at ALDI, it sells for between $10 and $12 in states where ALDI does not have stores. This Sparkling wine is sourced from…
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Send us Fan Mail Moon X Black Pinot Noir 2020- A $7 Trader Joe's Cult Wine A new bolder style of California Pinot Noir that exchanges subtlety and complexity for richness and flavor. I prefer traditional Pinot Noir, but that does not mean I can not enjoy a full-flavored, rich Pinot. Tastes great, more filling!…
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