Every once in a while this happens. You find a bottle at Costco with a label and markings that catch your eye, signaling potential with an attractive price tag, only to throw a few in your cart and later find out that they don’t live up to your expectations. This is one of those bottles. …
Malbec
This wine showed up in the wood bins at select Costco clubs a few weeks ago. There isn’t a whole lot of this wine available on account of it being a single vineyard, smaller production offering from this winery. Tapiz is Spanish for “tapestry,” and this winery is so-named for the efforts of winemakers Fabian …
There aren’t a lot of wines priced at $6.99 that you would readily recommend to someone, but there are a handful of Kirkland bottles that always seem to fit that bill, the Kirkland Malbec being one of them (others could include the Kirkland Cotes du Rhone Villages, Chianti Classico, and Rioja). Love the new label …
I’m always on the look out for a good inexpensive Malbec to add to my go-to wine list, and I was hoping this bottle for $12.99 would be that wine. But it came up a little short. This wine is still very young and just too simple for me, even at the fairly reasonable price tag. …
Massive bargain here. Great wine at an amazing price. For anyone who’s ever written to me and said they can’t find the wines we review at their local Costco, I really hope you can find them all someday, but I really really hope you can find this one. At only $13.89 at Costco, it is …
I’ve written before about how wine is often situational, meaning that wines can taste different just in the environment in which they’re consumed. And this wine falls into a bucket of being consumed in a “very optimal environment.” That is: group of friends, nice spring day, vegetables and pork tenderloins cooking on a Big Green …
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I’ve opened my fair share of wine bottles over the years, some new, some really old, some opened in haste, others opened with extreme care. Finding a good corkscrew is not easy, and there’s a ton of debate over which ones are best. I’m not going to tell you this one is the best, but …
There are quite a few really enjoyable Kirkland wines available right now in Costco stores at very good prices. Keep in mind every store and area is different. You might not be able to find all of these, but what follows are some of our favorites from the past few months, ranked by our ratings from high …
This is one of those wines that just highlights why shopping for wine at Costco is such a pleasure. I’ve had several readers comment on the standard (non signature series) Kirkland Malbec which is about half the price of this one ($8.99 for the regular Kirkland Malbec vs $18.79 for Kirkland Signature Series that I …
Here’s a great value buy that was recommended by a reader of the site. It’s hard to believe we’re already drinking 2014 wines (reds particularly) and this wine tastes fresh and juicy like it was bottled yesterday. Made from high elevation organic grapes grown in the Malbec mecca of Mendoza, it’s hard to go wrong …
At the end of every year we look back at the previous 12 months of reviews and assemble a list of the highest rated wines we enjoyed from Costco. But first let’s take a quick look back at 2014, which was another big year for the site. We moved to a new hosting platform and responsive design …
It’s always difficult to find the perfect Thanksgiving wine that everyone will unanimously agree pairs perfect with the hodge podge of food and flavors that are typically served on Thanksgiving tables around the country. I tend to opt for a variety of different wines, and enjoy tasting them all at the same time with the …
Since it’s right around mid-year, I wanted to take a minute to outline the wines that we’ve really enjoyed so far in 2014. Below is a list of wines that we scored 90 points or above, and that we highly recommend you keep an eye out for at Costco. Most of these will be gone, …
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I was intrigued when I found this bottle at my Costco. A WA state Malbec from a producer I’ve had wines from, and enjoyed before, for $17.99. I had to give it a shot, and I’m happy to report that I found this to be an excellent wine.
Nose was a little floral with some berry and a little spice. In the glass the wine is really an light inky purple, looking a little younger than it turned out to be. Flavors of black licorice, blueberry, tobacco and some cinnamon lead into a nice dry, long finish. Very nice wine. I’m about to fire up the grill and then will see how this pairs with some barbeque chicken and grilled veggies. I’m glad I tried this one. It’s a fun wine, a little something different, and a good buy at $18. CostcoWineBlog.com Rating: 90 Points |