So happy to see this bottle back in stock at Costco in the new ’17 vintage. The ’15 vintage was really amazing for only $12.99 and I gave it 89 points last year. The ’16 vintage scored huge among the critics so I’m bummed that one didn’t appear at my Costcos (Dunnuck 93; Wine Advocate …
Cabernet Sauvignon
The Kirkland Oakville Cabernet is always a bottle we look forward to trying every year. We’re coming right off the heels of reviewing the latest vintage of the Kirkland Rutherford Cabernet which is produced just up the road, and Erin went 89 points on that wine. Last year, I went 91 points for the Oakville …
This is one of those Costco wines you might want to stock up on if you see it. Finding good quality reds from California in this price range gets harder and harder every year. Yet, the Est 75 bottle from famed winemaker Tuck Beckstoffer lands at Costco for only $13.99. It’s a $20 bottle almost …
I love the wines of Bordeaux, particularly those on the left bank and increasingly more the area south of the city of Bordeaux, Pessac Leognan. In fact, Pessac might be one of the best places to go among the top Bordeaux regions if you’re looking for the biggest bang for the buck. Chateau Smith Haut …
I reviewed the last vintage of this wine in 2017, around December I believe. The newest release just appeared in select warehouses so I thought I’d pick up a bottle to see how it compares. There isn’t any information regarding the winemaker on the back label, but it does provide a grape breakdown of 75% …
We always look forward to new Kirkland Signature wines, and I especially get excited when an appellation-specific one arrives. I’ll admit that I sometimes get them confused and fail to realize when a new edition has appeared. The labels tend to be similar, and there are more than a few from Napa Valley alone. This …
This is an absolute screaming buy if you’re able to find it at your Costco. We posted about the big bottles arriving in Nov for the holidays. At that time, this bottle was priced at $100. Today it can be had for half that. The price on the standard size Mondavi Oakville at Wine.com is …
Costco has carried the Franciscan Estate Napa Cabernet for a while, and the latest vintage has had something of label makeover. Previous vintages had “Franciscan Estate Napa Valley” on the label, whereas this vintage is simply “Franciscan” with a “Napa County” designation. If you’ve ever had a previous vintage, you know that it’s a quality …
I haven’t seen a lot of Australian wine at Costco, apart from a Shiraz here and there. This wine, boasting 93 points from Wine Spectator, definitely caught my eye, and I didn’t even hesitate to purchase a bottle. Cabernet Sauvignon is the predominant grape planted in the Coonawarra wine region. Other red varieties like Shiraz …
Clos du Val is a classic Napa producer and this 2014 bottle is just signature, high quality Napa wine at a very special Costco price. But be ready to buy it if you see it, as the promo price is only good through the end of the year. As you can see Costco’s standard price …
Finding good Cabernet from Napa in the $20 price range is always a challenge. Right now if I was shopping at Costco with this goal in mind, I’d probably go for the Kirkland Stags Leap, which was pretty solid this year. Outside of Costco another good name to look for is Joseph Carr, who consistently …
I’m a big fan of wines from Stags Leap, and have visited a vast majority of the wineries right there along Napa’s Silverado trail. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is one you don’t want to miss; it’s a classic Napa property given their role in the Judgement of Paris, which put them and Napa Valley wines …
I thought this current vintage of the Kirkland Stags Leap Cab was slightly better than the last one we tasted which was the ’14 vintage. Not sure what happened to the ’15 but I certainly wouldn’t have passed it up if it had made an appearance in a store near me. Looking back on these …
It’s been a little while since we got our hands on one of the Kirkland Columbia Valley offerings from Washington State. The last one was this 2015 Cab-Merlot blend that we thought was pretty good, and before that we had to dig into the vaults to find this Columbia Valley Bordeaux blend we really enjoyed …
The Joel Gott Cabernet Sauvignon is a Costco staple. Every club that I’ve ever been to carries it. Some of them stock it in the wooden bins on what I like to call the “tables.” Other clubs prominently display pallets of it on their end caps. The price tends to always remain the same, hovering …