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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The Boneshaker Old Vine Zinfandel 2019 is one of the Hahn Family Vineyards wine brands. Hahn has been around since 1979 in the Santa Lucia Highlands of the Monterey AVA. This is a Lodi wine, and the grapes came from 2 vineyards from a Lodi family-run wine estate. Hahn Family Wines has had a contract…
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The Boneshaker Old Vine Zinfandel 2019 is sourced from two vineyards in the Mokelumne River AVA inside the Lodi AVA in the Central Valley of California. Boneshaker is one of the Hahn Family Vineyards wine brands. They purchased the Smith and Hook vineyard in 1979 and soon had a winery located in the Santa Lucia…
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Kings Of Prohibition Cabernet Shiraz Blend – Weird Bottle Good Wine An $8.99 from Trader Joe's, though not a TJ's wine, though this edition may well have been made for Trader Joe's The Red Blend on the Kings of Prohibition website is different than this. Barossa Valley is maybe the equivalent of Napa Valley in…
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The Kings Of Prohibition Cabernet Shiraz Blend is a blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon and 49% Shiraz (Syrah) sourced from vineyards in the Barossa district of Southeast Australia. This a brand from Calabria Family Wines, a winery founded in 1945. I found this wine selling at Trader Joe’s for $8.99; while the Kings of Prohibition…
Read MoreBlue Shell Sauvignon Blanc 2020 – Trader Joe's French Summer Wine This is a $6.99 Trader Joe's wine from the Languedoc region of France. The Blue Shell Sauvignon” Blanc says “Southern French Coast” on the front label. The Languedoc is located from the Pyrenees foothills to the MediterraneanOcean in southeastern France. I like this wine….
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The Blue Shell Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is a $6.99 Trader Joe’s import wine sourced from vineyards in the Languedoc region of southeast France. The label says the location is the “Southern French Coast,” which makes sense since the Languedoc runs along the Mediterranean Ocean. This is an IGP (Indication Geographique Protégée) classified wine; it is…
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Don't Mind If I Do Pinot Noir 2019 – ALDI Lo-Cal Low Alcohol No Sugar Wine. A $7.99, 85 calories, 9% alcohol, no sugar wine from Aldi. Does it taste like diet wine? Not really; if you did not know the alcohol was lower and the sugar was missing, you probably could not tell. The…
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The Don’t Mind If I Do Pinot Noir 2019 is a $7.99 ALDI wine with 85 calories, zero fat, and no sugar every 5 oz. serving. Eighty-five calories are 30% less than a typical California Pinot Noir, and the alcohol content of similar wines is 13% to 14.5%. Most wines have some sugar content. We…
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Snoop Dogg wine? It's got to be a gimmick. Wrong. It has 10.5% alcohol; the typical California Rosé is 12.5% to 13.5%. This is old school Rosé, the kind you sip while sitting at a cafe on a plaza while watching the world walk by. Maybe a little more nectar sweet than the old school…
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The 19 Crimes Snoop Cali Rosé 2020 is a brand from Treasury Wine Estates, a mainly Australian company with wines from all over the world, including American wines like Beringer and Stags’ Leap. The 19 Crimes brand lineup features Australian wines, but the Snoop Dogg wines are sourced from California vineyards. The 19 Crimes wines…
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French Bubbly that sells for $5.99 should not be a thing. But it is. And it tastes great and is well-made. You want to work on your Champagne Cocktail skills; this is the Bubbly to choose. Plus, it drinks wonderfully on a Tuesday or any other day. Mother's Day Mimosa's, this is your Bubbly. check…
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The Trader Joe’s Blanc de Blancs Brut is a $5.99 Sparkling wine from France. Trader Joe’s has been selling Bubbly for years; Cheapwinefinder first reviewed this wine in October of 2013. Blanc de Blanc translates to White wine from white grapes. In Champagne, it means the Bubbly was made with Chardonnay. But here, they could…
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Baseball, apple pie, and wine? Well, sure, at Wrigley Feild, home of the Chicago Cubs, Terlato Wines have an array of excellent wines for the fans to enjoy. You can get a carafe of the Federalist Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon, which is 4 glasses of wine, for about the same price as 4 decent beers. Or…
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The Federalist Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 is a wine brand from Terlato Wines International. They are the folks who imported Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio to the United States. Before they brought the wine Pinot Grigio was not a “thing,” now it is definitely a “thing.” Santa Margherita spun off a few years ago, but Terlato…
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No sugar, no fat, low carbs, 9% alcohol usually means the wine will taste like something is missing—usually flavor and mouthfeel. But not with is $7.99 ALDI Sauv Blanc from California. It isn't big and bold, more leaner and balanced. But the flavor is still there. The winery that possibly produced this Sauvignon Blanc also…
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The Don’t Mind If I Do Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is a $7.99 ALDI low-calorie wine. This is a wine with 85 calories, sugar-free, 3.4g of carbohydrates, .4g of protein, and 0% fat. One of the reasons for the low calories is this Sauvignon Blanc has only 9% alcohol content. The brand name Don’t Mind If…
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Barons Domaines de Rothschild (Lafite) sure sounds expensive, but the Los Vascos Chardonnay 2020 sells for $10 or less. It is an estate wine from their project in the Colchagua Valley in Chile. No oak barrels, no malolactic fermentation, just on lees aging. Is that enough to make this Chardonnay taste great? Oh yeah! This…
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