Tag: reverse wine snob
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There’s a New Casone in Town at TJs
Fast facts: 2023 Terre Del Casone Vermentino, Toscana, Italy ($7.99 @Trader Joe’s, California) The Casone name might be a familiar one to long time readers. That’s because we love the ultra high QPR of their Super Tuscan which has been our Wine of the Week on several occassions. Thus, we took notice when we…
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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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Is this $11 bottle the highest QPR wine in the Kirkland Signature Napa portfolio?
Fast facts: 2022 Kirkland Signature Red Blend, Napa Valley, California $11.99 (@Costco, California, Item# 333110) This wine is an extraordinary value. The Beverage Tasting Institute had this to say about it: “If you need an everyday house red Bordeaux blend this should be at the top of the list.” That’s mighty praise for an…
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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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Think of these two “wines” as bookends to your Thanksgiving holiday meal…
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in 10 Year Tawny Port, best trader joes wines, Porto Morgado, semi sweet, sparkling wines, sweet wines, Thanksgiving wines, Thanksgiving wines at Trader Joe’s, Villa Alena, Wine, wine blog, wine reviews, Wines of Italy, Wines of Portugal, wines under $10, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, wines under $25Fast Facts: Villa Alena Cranberry, Italy ($7.99 @ Trader Joes, California) Porto Morgado, 10 Years Tawny Port, Portugal ($11.99 @ Trader Joe’s, California) It’s difficult to belive, but here we are careening towards the end of another year. And the crush of Q4 holidays makes it a slippery slope into 2025. But I am…
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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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The Other Bargain Brunello – Fire Up the Pasta Pot!
Fast Facts: 2019 Poggio Lontano Brunello di Montalcino, Italy ($21.99 @ Trader Joes, California) So fellow Costco wine bloggers on the east coast have been lighting up about the new 2019 Kirkland Signature Brunello di Montalcino but it has yet to land in our stores here on the West Coast. Maybe we are premature…
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A Costco Wine that Puts the Wow in our W.O.W!
Fast facts: 2019 Borreo Ranch Sangiovese, Napa Valley, CA ($16.99* @Costco, California, Item# 259607) *net price after a generous $13 discount I’ve been tempted by this bottle for months at my local Costco. The label suggested this wine had lots of potential. First off, a single vineyard wine from Napa? You know how we…