Category: French Wine
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A Whole Lot of Red Wine Goodness for $5.99 from Trader Joe’s
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in 2019, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, charles smith, Cotes du Rhone, food and wine, French Wine, GSM, K Vine, Merlot, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Syrah, The Originals, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Trader Joe’s vs. Costco wines, Trader Joe’s wine, Trader Joe’s Wine, Washington State Wines, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, wines under $10, Wines Under $15Fast facts: 2019 Syrah, Columbia Valley, Washington ($5.99 @ Trader Joe’s, California) Before we start waxing about the grape, the vinification, the history…let’s say this: this is a great bottle of wine for $5.99! I entered the wine business – at least as a professional, hehe – in the early nineties. It…
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Bargain White Burgundy from Trader Joe’s?!
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in 2020, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, Burgundy, Chardonnay, costco wine blog, Espirit des Lieux Macon Verze, food and wine, French Wine, reverse wine snob, Trader Joe’s Wine, Trader Joe’s wine, White Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10, Wines Under $15, wines under $25Fast facts: 2020 Chardonnay, Esprit des Lieux Mâcon-Verzé, Mâconnais,France ($9.99 @ Trader Joe’s, California) Usually when you are buying a bottle of French Chardonnay and it says Vin de Bourgone on the label, you would be paying more than $10. A lot more. After all, white Burgundy is one of the most sought after…
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Gee, Gigondas! That’s French for High QPR!
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in 2019, best costco wine deals, best costco wines, best wines at Costco, best wines under $20, Costco, costco wine blog, Costco Wines, French Wine, Gigondas, Grenache Syrah Mourvedre, GSM, Kirkland Signature, Red Blends, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20Fast facts: 2019 Kirkland Signature Gigondas, Gigondas, France ($14.99 @ Costco, California – Item # 1134102) I am blaming the warping of time on Covid, but when I recently spied this in my local Costco my first thought was: “didn’t we just review the 2018 vintage?” The answer was no, we reviewed it some…
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A Delightful French Wine, Which Borrows from Italian Winemaking Traditions
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in 2019, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, best wines at Trader Joes, best wines under $20, French Wine, Ile de Conas, Red Blends, Red Wine, reverse wine snob, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Trader Joe’s vs. Costco wines, Trader Joe’s Wine, Trader Joe’s wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10, Wines Under $15Fast facts: 2019 Ile de Conas Rouge Soupplesse, Pays d’Oc, France ($7.99 @ Trader Joe’s, California) You could go down a rabbit hole learning about “dried grape wines” which have literally been around since antiquity, but we hope to spare you from needing to do so. That is, unless you are itching to!…
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Two Red Wines from Costco, and the Opposite Ends of the Rhone Price Spectrum
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in 2019, 2020, best costco wine deals, best costco wines, best wines at Costco, Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages, Cotes du Rhone, French Wine, Grenache Cinsault Mourvedre, Grenache Syrah Mourvedre, GSM, Kirkland Signature, Kirkland Signature Series, Red Wine, Syrah, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Uncategorized, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10, wines under $25Fast Facts: 2019 Kirkland Signature Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France ($22.99 @Costco in California – Item #777662) 2020 Kirkland Signature Côtes Du Rhône Villages ($6.99 @Costco in California – Item #887774) And, just like that, we find ourselves on the other side of the Thanksgiving holiday and on the slippery slide down towards the December holidays and…
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A Lot of Bordeaux Value for A Little Dough
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in 2018, best trader joes wine deals, best trader joes wines, Bordeaux, Bordeaux Blend, Bordeaux Blends, Bordeaux Red Blend, Chief Winehound, cotes de blaye, Cotes de Bordeaux, food and wine, French Wine, Meritage, Red Wine, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Trader Joe’s wine, Trader Joe’s Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20Fast facts: 2018 La Garenne Red Blend, Blaye, Côtes de Bordeaux, France ($7.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) Most wine drinkers know of the great and coveted wines of Bordeaux. But the Côtes de Bordeaux? That’s some unfamiliar territory to most. And with good reason. You see, unlike the storied regions that made Bordeaux famous, this…
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Two Stunning Syrah/Shiraz from Trader Joe’s
Fast facts: 2018 Trader Joe’s Reserve Shiraz, Lot 214, Barossa, Australia ($9.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) 2018 Trader Joe’s Reserve Syrah, , Lot 209, Paso Robles, California ($9.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) A Little Preamble: The Syrah grape is responsible for some of the most sought after bottlings in the world. In the Rhone Valley of…
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Our First 3Peat – Our Most Popular Trader Joe’s Wine Ever
Fast facts: 2019 Maison Barboulot Cabernet-Syrah $5.49 (@Trader Joe’s; California) Our featured wine from Trader Joe’s is a three-peat, updated to the 2019 vintage, and it’s every bit as good as we remember it’s predecessors to be. Seems like many of you liked this wine too – it has been our most popular review…
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French (Wine) Lessons from Costco – Très Bien at Under Ten!
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in best costco wine deals, Bordeaux, Bordeaux Blend, Bordeaux Blends, Bordeaux Red Blend, bordeaux superieur, Costco, costco wine blog, Costco Wines, Cotes du Rhone, food and wine, French Wine, grenache syrah carignan, Kirkland Signature, Languedoc-Rousillon, Popular Reviews, Red Wine, Uncategorized, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10Fast Facts: 2018 Kirkland Signature Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux, France ($7.99 @Costco in California – Item #1184548) 2017 Gérard Bertrand Tautavel, Côtes du Rousillon Villages, France ($9.99 @Costco in California – Item #637442) I think that it’s fair to say that most American wine consumers don’t understand French wine nearly as well as they do the wines…
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Spring Into Stocking Up on Great SauvBlanc – With Help from TJs and Costco
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in Costco, costco wine blog, Costco Wines, French Wine, Kirkland Signature, Napa Valley, reverse wine snob, Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc, Trader Joe’s & Costco wines, Trader Joe’s vs. Costco wines, Trader Joe’s wine, Trader Joe’s Wine, White Wine, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of France, wines under $10, Wines Under $20Fast Facts: 2019 Kirkland Signature Sancerre, Loire Valley, France ($15.79 @Costco in California – Item #1476058) 2019 Fleur de Napa Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley, CA ($6.99 @Trader Joe’s in California) Move over red-breasted robins, daffodils and crocuses. From here on out, the harbinger of Spring for lovers of Sauvignon Blanc may well be the…