It’s been a while since we’ve seen Kris in stores. For a while, it was a staple in the white wine section. Then it fell off the map for a bit, at least around the stores we frequent. So we were happy to see it again, and coming in at $8.99 which is $1 or …
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An interesting trend we’re seeing is more of the Kirkland bottles arriving earlier in the year than they have in prior vintages. This is another example of a wine where we reviewed the prior vintage just 7 months ago. The new (and very delicious) Kirkland Brunello came in a few months early. Toscana a little …
Time for a little change of pace for the Wine Blog. At a friend, and fellow Costco lover’s party, we had the chance to play around with the Kirkland Golden Margarita and Kirkland Tequila Reposado. While we’re not tequila or margarita aficionados, we’d like to think we can taste a good drink when we have …
Curious what Costco looks like in Japan, and how their wine selection compares to the U.S.? So are we, and we had a chance to visit a Costco in Kawasaki Japan, just south of Tokyo. It turned out to be a fun trip with a few interesting surprises. Let’s go. We heard Costco stores in Japan …
[originally published 7/19/21; updated 2/23/24] We thought we’d mix it up with a little feature where we’d answer the most common questions we receive from our readers. This site started more than ten years and 1000 wine reviews ago and has grown far beyond what we ever thought possible. It’s created a great community of …
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 …
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 …
Hello Costco Wine fans. It’s one of our favorite times of the year when we look back at the highest rated wines we tasted and reviewed from Costco for 2023. In case you’ve missed this list in the past, here are some links to our stories from 2022, 2021, and 2020. We need to put our …
We heard from several readers that the Costco Wine Advent Calendar box for 2023 was at Costco so made a quick trip to the store looking for it, only to find a different, but very similar, box. So of course we had to pick it up for further exploration and to report back here. And …
Let’s take a quick break in the action for a little something different, our top five tips for buying wine at Costco. We like to think we’re pretty good at this, having purchased and reviewed over 1000 bottles of wine from Costco over the last decade plus. So what are some of things we do …
Here’s something a little different that popped up, and we’re glad we were able to taste it, because it’s a wine that you hear about occasionally, but perhaps not enough. This is an icewine from Canada, that is aroma and flavor packed, big in the mouth, sweet in the finish, perfect for a night cap …
A few weeks ago we published a huge update to our popular post “The Definitive Guide to Costco’s Kirkland Wines” and in the process of combing through all the Kirkland reviews of past and present, it brought to light an old classic bottle that we knew we had in the cellar still. We’re talking about …
[originally published 5/2020; last update 6/2023] One thing about shopping at Costco, which is on one hand the greatest thing ever, but simultaneously one of the most frustrating, is the idea of the “Costco find.” The term can apply to a couple different types of “finds” too. First, you have the item you’ve never seen …
The other day we went into our dashboard to post a new wine review, and a number jumped out at us. We had just posted the 1000th wine review for this site. Then I filtered by date and realized we were in our 10th year of running this site too. It makes sense since we post 2X a week …
We at the wine blog obviously love Costco almost more than anywhere else. And that’s not just because of the wine. The entirety of the product offering, great prices and unique experience make it a one of a kind shopping experience. Aldi is similar in some ways but different in others. It’s a unique shopping …