This is quite the find in the Costco wine aisle, and just what we are looking for when picking wines to review for this site. Here’s a Gran Reserva Rioja with nine years of age built in, and 94 points from Wine Enthusiast for $18.99. And it was amazing. Gran Reserva is the highest designation …
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It’s been a little while since we’ve posted specifically about the Kirkland Champagne, which remains one of our favorite Costco wine buys, and an insane value for real French Champagne. It’s appeared in several of our feature stories, but we wanted to revisit it with a focused review. The last time we posted was back …
This was a new find at Costco but a wine that we’ve tasted at a restaurant before, and we enjoyed it quite a bit. Long time readers will know that we are big fans of wines from Paso Robles, so we were thrilled to be able to taste this one again and get it up …
We typically find the Decoy line of wines from Duckhorn to give a decent bang for the buck, and we’re seeing quite a few of them pop up at Costco nowadays. The last one we reviewed was the Sauvignon Blanc, which was pretty good. We were bigger fans of the Sonoma red blend, which we …
Happy holidays everyone. Hope you all are enjoying some great Costco wines. As many of you may know, we wrote a book series to help people better understand and navigate some of the world’s top wine regions, including France, Italy and Spain. We want to offer a special deal for Costco Wine Blog readers: a …
We have to go all the way back to December of 2016 to find our last review of this wine, although we’ve seen it multiple times at Costco since then and tasted it quite a few more times too. We must have overlooked how long it had been since we posted about it. And it’s a …
Here’s an exciting new addition to the Kirkland wine family, and we were pumped when readers told us this one had started to appear in their stores, and we were finally able to find it near us. This is a Chianti Classico Gran Selezione, which is the top of classification scale for Chianti, above Riserva. …
This was an instant drop in the cart for us. Just the kind of wine we want to see land in Costco. First off, Rosso di Montalcino is what you want to see for a ridiculous quality to price ratio, and that’s what happened here. Yes, not an inexpensive wine at $22.99, but it’s $30 …
A popular Kirkland bottle is back with the latest 2021 vintage. We have been enjoying this one the past few years, and it remains a killer buy on juice from a premier region you just can’t access for the same price anywhere else. So the price staying at $13.99 was a huge bonus. A couple …
Here’s the new Kirkland Bordeaux Superieur arriving in stores right on time. For a while it was a Jan – Feb wine, but lately it’s been hitting in December. That’s good news if you’re looking for an inexpensive red to stock up on for the holidays. We instantly went to the price, $6.99 again, which …
Obviously the name Phelps caught our attention with this bottle. And the price tag too at only $8.99. Online we’re seeing this bottle sell for up to $18 (Wine.com). Retail seems to be $15. And once we got tasting, the wine is pretty good, so $8.99 is a steal. The wine has pulled down a …
This was a surprise and delight. The inaugural 2019 vintage of this new Kirkland offering was in stores in January of this year, so we weren’t on the lookout for the next one quite yet. But what a nice surprise, along with the price going down, albeit only a few cents, but we like it …
The Kirkland Russian River Pinot Noir is back in stores with the new 2022 vintage. This one can really vary in quality year to year in our opinion, and the last vintage (2021) was particularly good. We have the price remaining the same at $11.99 which is ridiculously low for grapes from this area, so …
Here’s a new Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough that popped up in our Costco store that looked interesting. We noted in our recent review of the delicious Invivo X by Sarah Jessica Parker (a wine that surpassed expectations) that we hadn’t reviewed many of the New Zealand offerings arriving in Costco. On the heels of the …
Thanksgiving is here upon us again, and we’re going to look through some recent reviews to try to pick out some good wines you can (hopefully) find at Costco for the big meal. This is always a fun list (here’s last years), and we tend to go a little all over the place in our …