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Petit Bourgeois Loire Sauvignon Blanc 2019
June 26, 2020 04:34 - 5 minutes - 3.7 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Petit Bourgeois Loire Sauvignon Blanc 2019 is an IGP Valle de Loire wine (the back label calls this a "table wine" which is a designation below IGP). It is the entry-level Sauvignon Blanc from Famille Bourgeois and winemaking family that has been producing wine in the Loire Valley for ten generations. They specialize in the Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé regions of the Loire Valley.The Petite Bourgeois is probably not from those vineyards, Famille Bourgeois f...
Cheapwinefinder Talks French Wine
June 22, 2020 16:02 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBSend us a Text Message. The PodcastWith this podcast, we at Cheapwinefinder.com discuss getting started drinking French wine. With all the different wine regions and classifications, it can get very confusing. We try to keep it simple, most of the grapes used are familiar to American wine drinkers, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. But the producers and the different regions may be intimidating, so we strip it down to the basics. Just concentrate on wha...
Cheapwinefinder Talks Trader Joe’s & Aldi Wine
June 15, 2020 04:52 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBSend us a Text Message. The PodcastCheapwinefinder Talks about Trader Joe's & Aldi Wine. With this podcast, we explain why we often choose wines from Trader Joe's and Aldi. Why we like most of their wines, why they are different from retail wine shops, and what they are so inexpensive. I won't write much more since this a podcast (18 minutes long), so listen up and enjoy! Check us out at www.cheapwinefinder.com or email us at [email protected]
Antoine Delaune Beaujolais Villages 2018
June 11, 2020 04:23 - 9 minutes - 6.25 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Antoine Delaune Beaujolais Villages 2018 is a $6.99 ALDI import exclusive. ALDI (both ALDI North Trader Joe's in America and ALDI South) is a German company with stores thru out Europe the US and Australia and has over 10,000 stores which give them tremendous buying power.In Europe, Great Britain, and Ireland they are the bang for the buck wine shop. Their wines are consistent award winners and they have contacts with quality European wine producers. With...
Loudenotte Pinot Noir Pays d’Oc 2018
June 07, 2020 03:26 - 5 minutes - 4.05 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryLoudenotte Pinot Noir 2018The Loudenotte Pinot Noir Pays d'Oc 2018 is a $6.99 Trader Joe's import exclusive sourced from grapes from the south of France. The Oc in Pays d'Oc refers to Occitania which runs from the border with Spain to the Rhone Valley to the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean.The wines from this region are designated as IGP wines which is a step below the AOC classification. IGP wines are the wines that folks in Europe drink every day. They are u...
Kingsley Sparkling Brut Rosé
June 04, 2020 04:28 - 10 minutes - 6.98 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Kingsley Sparkling Brut Rose' is a $6.99 Trader Joe's Sparkling wine made in the Traditional Method by Rack and Riddle. That is all I know about this Bubbly, but that might be enough.The first thing to note is that $6.99 for a Traditional Method Sparkling wine is crazy cheap. The Traditional Method is the production technique used in Champagne. After the wine is fermented the first time, it is bottled, not all the way to the top, they leave a little room...
Bogle Phantom Red Blend 2016
May 27, 2020 18:22 - 11 minutes - 7.71 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Bogle Phantom Red Blend 2016 is a blend of 51.5% Petit Sirah and 48.5% Zinfandel sourced from vineyards in several California vineyard regions. Bogle Vineyards was named 2019 Winery of the Year by Wine Enthusiast magazine.Bogle is located in the Clarksburg AVA which is south and a little east of Napa in the delta region of San Pablo Bay. The San Francisco Bay is on the south side, San Pablo to the north. The Bay is the reason that Carneros is cool enough ...
Wente Riva Ranch Chardonnay 2018
May 24, 2020 19:50 - 11 minutes - 7.84 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode Quake chats clones, guitars, Alexa, and Chardonnay - the Wente Single Vineyard (Riva Ranch) Chardonnay 2018.Wente is the First Family of Chardonnay, and they're doing something pretty cool - a virtual wine tasting app for your Amazon Echo or Google Home device.So why should we tell you all about this wine when Alexa can do it for us? Pour yourself a glass & listen now ... Check us out at www.cheapwinefinder.com or email us at [email protected]
High Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2018
May 21, 2020 04:00 - 8 minutes - 6.09 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe High Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2018 is a single vineyard (Betsy's Vineyard) located in the High Valley sub-AVA of the Lake County AVA which directly north of Napa. High Valley is one of Shannon Ridge's family of wines.Shannon Ridge is owned by Clay Shannon who farms several thousand acres of vineyards. They use 50% of the grapes for their own wines and the other 50% are sold off to other wineries. You have probably experienced Shannon Ridge grapes and not kn...
Is your wine “real”? Your phone can tell
May 19, 2020 17:31 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we chat with the folks over at Everledger about the emerging wine tech that not only prevents fraud, but can create a direct relationship between producers & us winos!Did you know one third of the booze out there is fake or mislabeled? There's such stringent rules in place to be sure a producer can label their wines as coming from somewhere, but what about the rest of the supply chain? Listen in to see what's being done ... Check us out at www.cheapwi...
Trader Joe’s Reserve Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
May 18, 2020 04:38 - 10 minutes - 7.01 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Trader Joe's Reserve Anderson Valley Pinot Noir is a $9.99 Trader Joe's exclusive. Anderson Valley is located in coastal Mendocino and is situated between two mountain ranges. Two more things to note are this the 2018 vintage and is Lot #201.Anderson Valley has a growing reputation for the production of fine Pinot Noir wines. I noticed that the alcohol level is 14.5% which fairly heavy for a Pinot Noir. Burgundian Pinot Noir is closer to 12.5%, so this is...
Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Napa Chardonnay
May 14, 2020 04:27 - 11 minutes - 7.58 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Napa Chardonnay 2018 Lot 85 is a $12.99 Trader Joe's exclusive. Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer says "expect to pay twice as much elsewhere for a similarly pedigreed Napa Chardonnay." And they called this wines producer their winery partner.That sounds about right, if a winery from Napa releases a Chardonnay under their own label it is going to sell for a minimum of $25. You can find an occasional brand wine from Napa for less, but ...
CheapWineFinder Long Distance Wine Tasting
May 11, 2020 22:18 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryPPE, six-foot social distancing, lockdown, masks, wash your hands every time you touch something, cross the street when you see someone walking towards you, so much for your favorite pub or restaurant, and stand in line to enter the grocery store, the so-called new reality. Well, we have our XLR microphones and our FaceTime cameras, Quake and Dave decided to do a long-distance wine tasting, alone together. Luckily Quake has a Zoom account for business, we plu...
Simi Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
May 09, 2020 04:17 - 10 minutes - 6.94 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Simi Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 is 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 3% Petite Sirah, 1% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Merlot. All but the Petite Sirah are grapes approved to be included in the Red wine blends of Bordeaux. Petite Sirah is also a French grape, not Bordeaux, and never was widely planted in France but has found a home in California.The bulk of the grapes come from 2 Simi estate vineyards, Los Amigos and Red Fan, along with a portion ...
Proyecto la Garnacha Salvaje del Moncayo
May 05, 2020 04:42 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Proyecto la Garnacha Salvaje del Moncayo translates to the Wild Garnacha Project of Moncayo. The concept behind this wine is simple. Find old, neglected Garnacha vineyards and bring them back to life. The Moncayo is one the largest mountain peaks (Pyrenees) along the Elbro Valley in the district of Aragon in northeast Spain. Further north and a little west along the Elbro Valley is the Rioja wine regionThere was a time when Garnacha was the most planted r...
Cheapwinefinder Lockdown Virtual Wine Tasting Podcast
May 01, 2020 19:52 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBSend us a Text Message. The Podcast StoryWe thought we would try our hand at a ZOOM webcam get together that has become one of the main ways to stay in touch in these days of self-isolation. So the Cheapwinefinder Lockdown Virtual Wine Tasting Podcast was born.The concept was Mike and Dave would each pick up a Sauvignon Blanc to taste test alone together. Mike grabbed the R Collection Sauvignon Lot 4. There are four generations of winemakers working for Raymond Vineyards and Lot 4 means that...
Parasphere Sonoma Zinfandel 2014
April 28, 2020 04:57 - 11 minutes - 8.01 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Parasphere Sonoma Zinfandel 2014 is a $7.99 Trader Joe's mystery wine. There are several things here that do not add up to an aged Sonoma County Zinfandel for under eight bucks.The first point is obvious, Sonoma Zinfandel with 6 years of age selling for $7.99 does not exist in the wild. Generally speaking, the difference between a ten-dollar Red wine and a twenty-dollar Red wine is the production techniques the winemaker chose to use.A ten-dollar wine is ...
Santa Julia Reserve Malbec 2018
April 24, 2020 04:22 - 8 minutes - 5.98 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Santa Julia Reserva Malbec 2018 is 100% Malbec sourced from Estate vineyards in the Uco Valley in the southwest corner of the Mendoza Valley in Argentina.Santa Julia is one of the labels produced by Familia Zuccardi Estates who have been in the wine business since the 1950s. Santa Julia was started in 1982 and Julia in the name is the founders' only daughter. This is a side note, I have not tasted the Malbec yet. I have found that whenever a winery names ...
The Arroyo del Imperio Chardonnay 2019
April 22, 2020 04:41 - 8 minutes - 5.99 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Arroyo del Imperio Chardonnay 2019 is a $5.99 Trader Joe's wine sourced from vineyards in the foothills of the Andes in the Central Valley of Chile.There usually isn't much of a story to tell for six buck Trader Joe's Chardonnay. There is no technical information available concerning the production of this wine. The back label of inexpensive Trader Joe's wines will often give a hint as to what is in the bottle.But the back label for the Arroyo del Imperio...
Gnarly Head Old Vine Zinfandel 2018
April 17, 2020 04:54 - 11 minutes - 7.92 MBSend us a Text Message. The Gnarly Head Old Vine Zinfandel 2018 is sourced from vineyards in the Lodi AVA of Northern California. Gnarly Head is one of Delicato Family Vineyard's portfolio of wines.Click on the link above to see their family of wine. Delicato has been around since 1924, they are the sixth-largest winery in the United State. They control 6,000 acres of grapevines in Lodi, Napa, Sonoma, and Monterey.The term Gnarly Head refers to a style of pruning the vines. The branches are ...
Wildsong Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2018
April 14, 2020 04:14 - 9 minutes - 6.63 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Wildsong Hawke's Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2018 is sourced from the Wild Flower Vineyard located in Mangatahi one of the highest elevated regions in the Hawke's Bay growing region on New Zealand's North Island. Most of the Sauvignon Blanc you would typically see on store shelves comes from Marlborough on the South Island.Wildsong is one of Te Awanga Estate line of wines. About half of Te Awanga's vineyards are certified organic with the other transitioning to o...
Yalumba Y Series Shiraz Viognier 2017
April 12, 2020 04:26 - 10 minutes - 7.41 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Yalumba Y Series Shiraz Viognier 2017 is 95% Shiraz and 5% Viognier sourced from vineyards in South Australia. In case you are not aware, Shiraz (Syrah) is a red grape and Viognier is a white grape and it is not all that common that red and white grapes are used in a blend.I asked a winemaker why they would add a small amount of a White wine grape to a Red wine since you would figure the Red grape would overpower the White grape. She told me that adding V...
William Wright Monterey Chardonnay 2018
April 09, 2020 04:19 - 8 minutes - 5.99 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe William Wright Monterey Chardonnay 2018 is a $7.99 ALDI wine produced for them by Scheid Vineyards in Greenfield, California (Monterey County). It seems that if you see a Monterey County wine from ALDI there is a good chance Scheid Vineyards produced it.Scheid Family Wines has been in business since 1972 and have 12 estate vineyards. They produce a wide variety of wines from expensive single-vineyard wines to highly affordable wines sold in grocery stores...
Bluebird Monterey Pinot Noir 2016
April 06, 2020 05:21 - 11 minutes - 8.09 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Bluebird Monterey Pinot Noir 2016 seems to be an orphan wine. All the social media for Bluebird Wines and they had everything, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, all stopped posting in 2015. There is a single webpage, for the 2013 vintage of this wine.They seemed to have produced other wines from past vintages, but this is the only wine still for sale. I also found it selling at a local grocery store, Mariano's, which is a Kroger store in the Chicago ...
Anne Amie Rosé of Pinot Noir 2019
April 03, 2020 04:37 - 9 minutes - 6.7 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Anne Amie Rose of Pinot Noir 2019 is an estate farmed, produced, and bottled Rose' sourced from vineyards in the Yamhill-Carlton and Chehalem Mountain districts of the Willamette Valley in western Oregon. Anne Amie Vineyards is a privately owned winery founded in 1999.This Rose' is a brand new wine for Anne Amie and they have not gotten around to adding the wine to their website, so I do not have production tidbits to pass along. But this is an interesti...
Bear Bros Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
April 01, 2020 16:38 - 8 minutes - 6.06 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Bear Bros Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 is an ALDI $8.99 exclusive sourced from vineyards in California. That is about all the information on the production of this Cab that is available.And that is ok because this is a lockdown wine, if you take a chance and head out to ALDI is grab some provisions can you also pick up a decent wine to help make watching Netflix for the 3rd week a row more palatable. ALDI does not have the most attractively displayed wines aro...
Ken Forrester Petit Chenin Blanc 2019
March 30, 2020 15:03 - 10 minutes - 6.99 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Ken Forrester Petit Chenin Blanc 2019 is a young wine sourced from vineyards in the Stellenbosch region of South Africa. Ken Forrester is one of the leading wineries in South Africa, their farm dates back to 1689 with grapevines first planted in 1694. Ken Forrester bought the rundown derelict estate in 1993 and started producing wine in 1994. he is acknowledged as one of the best growers of Chenin Blanc.The Stellenbosch region is situated in the Western C...
Cotillion Pinot Noir 2017
March 27, 2020 05:11 - 10 minutes - 7.29 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Cotillion Pinot Noir 2017 is a Trader Joe's $9.99 exclusive brand sourced from vineyards in 56% Monterey County, 33% Sonoma County, and 11% Santa Barbara County in California. Under usual circumstances, this is a wine that would show 'California' on the front label as a place of origin since 67% of the grapes came from the Central Coast AVA and 33% came from the North Coast AVA. But since each of the AVAs mentioned are excellent Pinot Noir growing regions...
Monique Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2018
March 25, 2020 04:41 - 10 minutes - 7.04 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Monique Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2018 is a Trader Joe's $6.99 exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Central Coast AVA of California. This is a wine made for Trader Joe's by the Central Coast Wine Warehouse which is part of Thornhill Companies. The Central Coast Wine Warehouse has been working with Trader Joe's for years.The Central Coast Wine Warehouse is a winery that produces retail brand wines, store brands, contract wines, you name it and they also ...
Hopes End Red Blend 2017
March 23, 2020 04:59 - 9 minutes - 6.45 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Hopes End Red Blend 2017 is a blend of 41% Shiraz (also known as Syrah), 39% Grenache, 12% Malbec, and 8% Petit Verdot sourced from vineyards in South Australia. Hopes End is one of the Trinchero Family Estates stables of wines, which include some of the more popular wine brands on the market. The South Australia wine region is clustered around coastal areas where the cool Southern Pacific Ocean keeps the climate safe for vines. You need not go too far in...
Red Cloak Petite Sirah 2017 (ALDI)
March 20, 2020 04:32 - 7 minutes - 4.94 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Red Cloak Petite Sirah 2017 (ALDI)is a $6.99 ALDI exclusive sourced from grapes farmed in the Monterey County AVA inside the Central Coast AVA of California. ALDI virtually never issues any technical information concerning their wines, they tend to skip anything that will add to the price. But they are upping their label game, the Red Cloak can hold its own with any retail wine in that regard.The label shows someone (Little Red Riding Hood?) entering into...
Trader Joe’s Grand Reserve Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
March 17, 2020 04:37 - 9 minutes - 6.78 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, actually the complete name includes Lot 96 and it is a Trader Joe's $12.99 exclusive wine. This wine is featured in Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer, but there is no mention of any technical details, is it 100% Cabernet Sauvignon? What are the rough details of the oak program? Nothing, but they do tell us it is from the Chalk Hill AVA.Chalk Hill is a relatively small sub-AVA located in the northeas...
JaM Butter Chardonnay 2018
March 14, 2020 03:57 - 7 minutes - 5.05 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe JaM Butter Chardonnay 2018 is a brand that is part of the John Anthony Family of Wines. John Anthony is John A. Touchard out of Napa, California. JaM stands for John and Michelle Truchard. And this is a "lifestyle" brand of wines.This is a wine that I found (on sale( for $12.99 and a quick check of the web shows it selling for between $13 and $15. There is a stiff competition of your Chardonnay dollars at this price point. JaM is big on lifestyle marketin...
Corte Rossa Barolo 2015
March 11, 2020 05:07 - 10 minutes - 7.52 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Corte Rossa Barolo 2015 is an $11.99 Trader Joe's import exclusive, 100% Nebbiolo grape from vineyards in the Barolo DOCG region of northwest Italy. The Barolo region in Italy bills itself as the King of Italian wine. Barolo wines typical sell for around forty dollars and the best offerings from the best estates can sell for hundreds of dollars. An $11.99 Barolo is extremely rare.The DOCG (the G stands for Guarantee)is the Italian wine governing body, the...
Domaine Angelliaume Chinon 2018
March 08, 2020 05:08 - 9 minutes - 6.42 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Domaine Angelliaume Chinon 2018 is a $12.99 Costco wine. The winery is Domaine Angelliaume and the name of the wine is Domaine des Falaises which translates to English as Field or Place of the Cliffs which is the name of the estate vineyard that the Cabernet Franc grapes were farmed. The vineyards near the town of Chinon are situated on steep hills leading down to a river that runs through the Loire Valley in France.I mention the name of the winery and th...
Henri Gaillard Provence Rosé 2018
March 06, 2020 05:34 - 10 minutes - 6.93 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Henri Gaillard Provence Rose' 2018 ($9.99 at Costco) is a blend of Syrah, Grenache, Cinsault, and Mourvèdre from vineyards in the Cotes de Provence AOC of the Provence region in the south of France. The Cotes de Provence is the largest growing region in Provence. The different regions in Provence tend to feature different grapes or blends in their Rose', so the wines can vary from region to region.This is a $9.99 Costco wine though it does not seem to be...
Trader Joe’s Reserve Monterey Pinot Noir 2018
March 03, 2020 04:55 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Trader Joe's Reserve Monterey Pinot Noir 2018 lot #191 is a $9.99 Trader Joe's exclusive produced for them by an unspecified winery from grapes farmed in the Monterey County AVA inside the Central Coast AVA of California. The listed producer, Ashford Court, also is the name used for Trader Joe's Cotillion Pinot Noir.If you are familiar with Trader Joe's wines the Cotillion Pinot has the label that is a drawing of what looks like a party from the 1700s onl...
Global Adventure Series Chianti 2018
February 29, 2020 04:41 - 10 minutes - 7.5 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Global Adventure Series Chianti 2018 is a $4.99ALDI exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Chianti DOCG region of Tuscany in Italy. There are two DOCG Chianti regions, Chianti Classico and just plain Chianti (there are sub-regions). The Classico Chianti is the original DOCG region and has a black rooster on the neck of the bottle. Italy has wine governing organizations, DOCG and DOC that are tasked with enforcing rules and regulations to ensure quality a...
Federalist Lodi Zinfandel 2016
February 26, 2020 04:59 - 9 minutes - 6.26 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Federalist Lodi Zinfandel 2016 is 100% Zinfandel sourced from three different sub-AVAs of the Lodi AVA which is inside the Central Valley AVA. Most of the California wine you drink comes from the Central Coast AVA (Paso Robles, Santa Barbara, and others) and the North Coast AVA (Sonoma, Napa, etc..) and they are all coastal or mountain growing regions. Lodi is south and east of Napa and would be too far inland to grow grapes, the Bays to the east of San F...
CasaSmith ViNO Rosso 2016
February 24, 2020 04:54 - 11 minutes - 7.87 MBSend us a Text Message. The CasaSmith Vino Rosso 2016 is a 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Sangiovese blend sourced from seven vineyards located in various AVAs inside the Columbia Valley AVA of Washington State. CasaSmith is one of Charles Smith's Wines of Substance line of wines intended to pay tribute to his favorite wines of Italy. You may know Charles Smith from his line of wines that included Kung Fu Girl Reisling and Boom Boom Syrah, he sold those wine to Constellation Brands and is co...
Ravenswood Vintners Blend Zinfandel 2017
February 22, 2020 04:22 - 10 minutes - 7.13 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Ravenswood Vintners Blend Zinfandel 2017 is 76% Zinfandel, 21% Petite Sirah, and 3% Mixed Blacks (mixed blacks is the old school way of saying various Red wine grapes) sourced from more than one California grape growing AVA. That actually is the tech notes for the 2016 vintage, about a year ago the brand owners, Constellation sold Ravenswood and about 30 other wine brands to E and J Gallo.I imagine that since they no longer owned the brand they didn't go ...
Inverted Red Blend 2017
February 20, 2020 04:39 - 10 minutes - 7.14 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Inverted Red Blend 2017 is an ALDI $6.99 wine sourced from vineyards in the Central Coast AVA of California. And that is about all I know about this wine. It does not show up on the internet or under COLA name search, except there was an Inverted Red blend out of the Monterey AVA for the 2014 vintage.That version of the Inverted Red blend seems to exist for only one year, does it have any relation to this ALDI Red? I do not know. Again the website for the...
Nikau Point NZ Sauvignon Blanc 2019
February 18, 2020 04:54 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Nikau Point NZ Sauvignon Blanc 2019 is a $5.99 Trader Joe's wine sourced from vineyards in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. This wine is a bit of a mystery. When I went online to check for information the company that was listed as the producer and seemed to have information concerning the Nikau Point was blocked as a malicious website.There was a Nikau Point Reserve Sauvignon Blanc that was a single vineyards wine, actually a small section of a...
Wind Song Chardonnay 2018 ALDI
February 16, 2020 05:35 - 10 minutes - 7.06 MBSend us a Text Message. Wind Song Chardonnay 2018 ALDIThe StoryThe Wind Song Chardonnay 2018 ALDI is a $7.99 Aldi exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Margaret River district of Western Australia. Most Australian wines in the under twenty dollar price range come from South Australia or Southeast Australia. Margaret River is on the other side of the country, near the city of Perth and has a very different climate from the rest of the Australian grape growing areas.Margaret River is a coole...
Poppy Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
February 13, 2020 05:13 - 12 minutes - 8.29 MBSend us a Text Message. Poppy Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2017The StoryThe Poppy Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 is sourced from the Sunny Slope and the San Juan vineyards inside the Paso Robles AVA which is also inside the Central Coast AVA of California. Poppy (which is the state flower of California) is a brand started in 2003 by the Silva Family who has 45 years' experience in the wine trade.I chose to write about this wine for a couple of reasons, first, the Paso Robles AVA is a ...
Anna de Codorníu Brut Rosé Cava
February 11, 2020 05:37 - 10 minutes - 7.21 MBSend us a Text Message. Anna de Codorníu Brut RoséThe StoryThe Anna de Codorníu Brut Rosé Cava is a blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay sourced from estate vineyards near the town of Lleida in the Cava D.O. of northeast Spain (near Barcelona). A typical Cava uses the three indigenous grapes, Macabeo, Xarello, and Parelada, but since this is a Rose' and Red grapes skins are needed to get the pink coloration so traditional Champagne grapes are substituted.The Cordorniu company has a gre...
Meringue Chardonnay Edna Valley 2018
February 08, 2020 04:29 - 10 minutes - 7.12 MBSend us a Text Message. Meringue Chardonnay Edna Valley 2018The StoryThe Meringue Chardonnay Edna Valley 2018 is a $7.99 Trader Joe's exclusive sourced from the Edna Valley AVA which is located south of Paso Robles along the Pacific Ocean coast inside the Central Coast AVA of California. Edna Valley may not be the best known AVA in California but it has an excellent reputation for producing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines.Single AVA wines rarely sell in regular retail wine shops for under te...
Revelation Pinot Noir 2018
February 06, 2020 05:00 - 8 minutes - 5.72 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe Revelation Pinot Noir 2018 is a Trader Joe's $7.99 American exclusive sourced from vineyards in the Languedoc region of southeastern France. The Languedoc growing area borders the Mediterranean on the east, the Pyrenees Mountains to the west and Spain to the south. This is a Pays d'Oc (IGP) designated wine which is rated a step below AOC wines. Pays d'Oc is wines that are representative of the region but don't follow the AOC wine rules and regulations or ...
J. Lohr Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
February 04, 2020 05:28 - 11 minutes - 8 MBSend us a Text Message. The StoryThe J. Lohr Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 is 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petite Sirah, 5% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and 1% Syrah sourced mainly from J. Lohr's 7 Oaks vineyard as well as other estate vineyards in the Paso Robles AVA of the Central Coast AVA in California. J. Lohr is a family-owned winery founded in the Monterey AVA in the early 1970s. In the 1980s they expanded into the Paso Robles AVA (south of Monterey AVA) and have a property in the St. ...
Sean Minor 4B Chardonnay 2018
February 02, 2020 04:59 - 9 minutes - 6.74 MBSend us a Text Message. The Story The Sean Minor 4B Chardonnay 2018 is 100% Chardonnay sourced from several contracted vineyards in California's Central Coast AVA. Sean Minor Wines do not have their vineyards but have long term contracts with selected vineyards. They have a full line-up of wines from affordable White and Red wines to single-vineyard Pinot Noir, though they concentrate more value-priced wine. You may remember this wine from when they were 4 Bears Wines, there is still a 4B on...