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Our Lucky 13 Most Recent Reviews of Wines from Trader Joe’s – Updated!
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in best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, Red Wine, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve, Trader Joe’s Reserve, Trader Joe’s wine, White Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, wines under $10, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $5Going shopping for wine at your local Trader Joe’s? Take along this list of the 13 most recent posts that featured Wines of the Week (WoW!) from TJs. In this “case” think of it as your lucky 13! All prices shown are based on those in California. Click on any of the links below…
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Chardonnay Lovers Take Note!
Fast facts: 2023 Lustrous Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, California ($8.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) I spent enough years – heck, decades – in the wine trade to say with some certainty that you shouldn’t go looking for the Lustrous Winery should you be so lucky to find yourself in the Sonoma Valley. That…
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The “Other Pinot” from Oregon You Need to Know
Fast facts: 2023 Trader Joe’s Reserve Pinot Gris Lot #258, Willamette Valley, Oregon $9.99 (@Trader Joe’s, California) Imagine you have ended up on a televised broadcast of Wheel…of…Fortune. Your friends are of course mortified that you didn’t make it on to Jeopardy. The clue is Oregon wine grapes. The first word is 5 letters…
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I’ll Take Fermented Grapes for $1,000, Alex
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in 2021, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, Cabernet Sauvignon, California Wines, Central Coast, costco wine blog, food and wine, Meritage, Paso Robles, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve, Trader Joe’s Wine, Wine, wine reviews, Wines Under $15, wines under $25Fast Facts: 2021 Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Meritage, Lot# 129, Paso Robles, California ($12.99@ Trader Joe’s, California) Let’s just say you went back in time and were playing Jeopardy with host and winemaker Alex Trebek. (Yep, Alex once owned the Creston Winery – in Paso Robles, no less.) The answer for your $1,000 wager…
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A Trader Joe’s Red Wine Trifecta!
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in 2022, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, California Wines, costco wine blog, food and wine, Grenache Syrah Mourvedre, GSM, Lot #132, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Santa Barbara County, Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve, Trader Joe’s wine, Wine, wine reviews, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast facts: 2022 Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Lot #132, GSM, Santa Barbara County, California ($12.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) What a nice, summer weight red wine this one is. But why are we calling this Wine of the Week a trifecta? Well, because it checks our three main boxes: The right grapes, Grown in the…
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Another WoW in our BBQ Series
Fast facts: 2021 Pedroncelli Mother Clone Zinfandel, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma California ($16.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) For years we American’s proclaimed Zinfandel to be uniquely ours. Then DNA testing arrived in the wine world and we discovered that the grape’s genetic roots can be traced to modern-day Croatia, where it’s known as Crljenak or…
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The Perfect Pizza and Pasta Porch Pounder
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in 2017, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, Casone, Chianti Wine, costco wine blog, food and wine, Italian Wines, Poggio al Casone, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Sangiovese, Sangiovese, syrah, Toscana, Toscana, Trader Joe’s wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of Italy, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast Facts: 2017 Poggio al Casone, Toscana, Italy ($10.99 @Trader Joe’s in California) How is that subject line for a mouthful of alliteration? BTW, “porch pounder” is a technical term used by those of us in the wine trade to describe a wine that goes down easy and doesn’t require too much critical thought.…
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A TJ’s Chard to Toast the Arrival of Spring
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in 2022, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, California Wines, Chardonnay, costco wine blog, food and wine, reverse wine snob, Russian River Valley, russian river valley, Sonoma County, Sonoma County, Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve, Trader Joe’s wine, Trader Joe’s Wine, White Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast facts: 2022 Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Chardonnay Lot #128, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, California ($12.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) You have heard us say many times that Sonoma’s cool Russian River Valley excels at producing world class Pinot Noir and the same goes for Chardonnay. Chardonnay remains its most planted wine grape, although…
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Notes of blueberry pie and graham crackers? Sign me up!
Fast facts: 2021 Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Lot #109 Shiraz, Barossa Valley, Australia ($12.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) Let’s clear one thing up to start. Shiraz is the Australian name for the Syrah grape. Even though they are genetically the same, the word Syrah on a wine label is sometimes used to denote a lighter,…
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A Flowery First for this Blog
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in 2020, beaujolais, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, costco wine blog, Domaine des Quatres Vents, Domaines des Quatres Ventes, Fleurie, Fleurie, French Wine, French Wines, Gamay, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Trader Joe’s Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast facts: 2020 Domaine des Quatre Vents, Fleurie, France ($14.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) A wine from Fleurie? This is is a first. Perhaps it’s because old world wines are not espeically well known or stocked here on the Left Coast and the wines from this area tend to be the priciest from Beaujolais. But…