Category: best wines at Costco
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To Every Thing There is a Season, Turn, Turn, Turn
Hello Readers, Friends and Friendly Readers! One of my favorite sayings is that people are in your life “for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” The same can be said about projects and business ventures. Heck, the bottle shown below was gifted to me by my advisory board when I sold my company…
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A Whole Lotta Napa Cab for under $20
Fast Facts: 2022 Kirkland Signature Cabernet Sauvignon, Suscol Vineyard, Napa Valley, California ($17.99 @Costco in California – Item #1491800) We have reviewed multiple vintages of this wine (a perennial favorite) but think this may be the best vintage yet. It has always been good, with high QPR, but the 2022 has raised the bar.…
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Our Lucky 13 Most Recent Reviews of Costco Wines – Updated!
Going shopping for wine at your local Costco? Take along this list of the 13 most recent posts that featured Wines of the Week (WoW!) from Costco. In this “case” think of it as your lucky 13! Click on any of the links below for item numbers, tasting notes – and more… 2023…
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Beyond “The Usual Suspects” in New Zealand
Fast facts: 2021 Elephant Hill Le Phant Rouge (Red Blend), Hawkes Bay, New Zealand ($13.97 @Costco, California, Item# 1888961) Well this was a nice surprise…92 points and 1/3 off of retail prices elsewhere? When wine consumers think of New Zealand wines, their minds usually go first to Sauvignon Blanc (the country’s most…
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Our Favorite GSM is Back at Costco!
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in best costco wine deals, best costco wines, best wines at Costco, best wines under $20, Costco, costco wine blog, Costco Wines, French Wine, French Wines, Gigondas, Grenache Syrah Mourvedre, Kirkland Signature, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Wine, wine reviews, Wines of France, Wines Under $15, wines under $25Fast Facts: 2022 Kirkland Signature Gigondas, France ($13.99 @Costco in California – Item #1134102) I conducted a recent tasting in Arizona (hello, new followers!) and one of the pearls of wisdom I imparted was that the import wines in the Kirkland Signature portfolio have a much greater likelihood of “punching above their weight.” This…
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Costco Has Your Everyday Pizza/Pasta Wine
Fast facts: 2019 Kirkland Signature Brunello di Montalcino, Italy $19.99 (@Costco, California, Item# 1472194) Brunello di Montalcino is only produced from vineyards surrounding the town of Montalcino, in the province of Siena, located some 50 miles south of Florence in the Tuscan wine region. Brunello is derived from the Italian word for brown –…
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An Illegal Smile
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in 2020, best wines at Costco, best wines under $20, Cabernet Sauvignon, California Wines, Central Coast, costco wine blog, Meritage, merlot, paso robles, Paso Robles, Paso Robles, rabble, Red Blends, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, syrah, Wine, wine reviews, wines under $10, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast Facts: 2020 Rabble Red Blend, Paso Robles, California ($9.89* @ Costco, California – Item #922592) *net price after $3.00 in store discount After so many years in the wine business and trying to see what we could get away with when it came to wine names and label design (our company did, after…
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“Rare” Napa Cab – Naked at Costco
Fast Facts: 2019 Brendel Cooper’s Reed Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California ($29.99 @ Costco, California – Item # 693544) Ya know, we choose subject lines that we hope will entice you to open these emails. Duh! This one has a trifecta in our opinion: Rare + Napa Cab + Naked at Costco. That’s hard…


