Category: French Wine
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Our Wine of the Week is a Perfect Shoulder Season Pour
Fast facts: 2023 Kirkland Signature Châteauneuf-du-Pape ($18.99 @ Costco, California – Item #777662) With a few notable exceptions, the best wines in the Kirkland Signature portfolio are imports – especially those that clock in above the $10 price point. There are reasons for this. One is that in the US, some 90% of the…
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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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Noble Rot in the Vineyard is a Good Thing? Here is proof!
2022 Louis Eschenauer Sauternes, Bordeaux, France ($9.99@Trader Joe’s, California) How Sauternes gets created is pretty fascinating stuff. At least my left brain thinks so… Sauternes refers to a wine region, which is located within the Graves district south of Bordeaux. Sauternes is devoted to producing unfortified, sweet, white wines. The region is planted largely…
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Costco Has Your Thanksgiving Splurge Wine
Fast Facts: 2021 Joseph Drouhin, Chorey-les-Beaune, Burgundy, France ($35.99 @Costco in California – Item #684760) Let’s start with the elephant in the room: how do you correctly pronounce the name of this wine? Well, let’s put it phonetically in the context of a hypothetical convo with a troublesome relative at your Turkey Day…
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The Other White Wine – and a Perfect Pairing for your Bird Day
Fast Facts: 2022 N.D.P. Viognier, France ($6.99 @ Trader Joes, California) Made with grapes coming from vineyards in Southern France, where much of this grape is still grown, this is a surprisingly good renditon of Viognier. For most wine drinkers, the wine (pronounced Vee-Un-YAY) is a bit of a head scratcher. That is because…
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Is our WoW! Your Thanksgiving Secret Wine?
Fast Facts: 2021 Kirkland Signature Saint-Julien, Bordeaux, France ($17.69 @Costco in California – Item #1494198) As a person that has spent the bulk of his career in the wine business, I often get asked to name my favorite wine. It is a bit like being asked to name your favorite child. But if pressed…
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Beat da Heat with with this High QPR Refresher from Costco
Fast Facts: 2023 Kirkland Signature Côtes de Provence Rosé, Provence, France ($7.99 @Costco in California – Item #1133993) It is seemingly (very!) hot everywhere, so the choice for our Wine of the Week (W.O.W!) was a bit of a no-brainer. We had planned to purchase and review the KS Barolo after some of…
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A Harbinger of Spring, and the Perfect Easter Wine from 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, food and wine, French Wine, Kirkland Signature, Kirkland Signature Series, reverse wine snob, Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, White Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, Wines Under $15Fast Facts: 2022 Kirkland Signature Sancerre, Loire Valley, France ($15.99 @Costco in California – Item #1476058) Ever since word leaked from the east coast that the Kirkland Signature Sancerre had started to arrive, we have been scouring our local Costcos here on the left coast looking for this gem. At last our efforts were…
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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…
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High QPR Chablis Fan? Better Act Fast!
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in 2021, best costco wine deals, best costco wines, best wines at Costco, best wines under $20, Chablis, chablis, Costco, costco wine blog, Costco Wines, food and wine, French Wine, French Wines, Kirkland Signature, reverse wine snob, sparkling wines, White Wine, Wine, wine reviews, Wines of France, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast facts: 2021 Kirkland Signature Premier Cru Chablis, Burgundy, France $18.99 (@Costco, California, Item# 1043144) Happy new year vino peeps! This perennial favorite has arrived in California a bit earlier than last year, when we reviewed it in March. The price has inched up from the odd (for Costco) price of $17.49 for the…