Thanksgiving is always an interesting holiday to me when it comes to wine picks.  A typical Thanksgiving meal has many different flavors going on and it’s really hard to zero in on one style of wine that can handle them all. As I think about this more now, having done a few yearly Thanksgiving picks, …

I found a great buy on this wine at Costco.  The normal Costco price of $18.99 beats almost anything I found online, but this week in the store I found it with a $6 discount, putting the final price at $12.99, or about half of what you will find it for online.  The big question …

[Some quick tasting notes on this one from contributor Josh L as this is a great price on a good wine] Very soft cork (well stored). Seems like one of their “fire sale” buys (expiring vintage like Far Niente chard. Color has slight tinge of brown (probably due to age). Nose on bottle open is …

Balance is the key here to this excellent Chardonnay I found at a Costco in Reno, NV with a $5 off special, taking the already fair price of $24.99 (retail is closer to $35), down to $19.99.  I should have bought a few more. This wine starts with huge aromas of vanilla, butter and cream, …

Here’s an interesting bottle that arrived at Costco stores around the Atlanta area this week after selling out a first run rather quickly.  I’ve heard it’s available right now at Perimeter, Kennesaw (where I purchased a few) and Cumming stores, but Mr Reinert is continuing to create more wines under this label so hopefully distribution will continue …

Here’s just a quick mid-week review on a wine that is a summer staple in our household.  It’s only $7.99 and when the Atlanta heat kicks into gear, it’s time to go to Marlborough to cool down.  I know this isn’t the highest quality wine in the world, but for a “time and place wine,” …

I was ready to score this one pretty low because it’s really basic and I thought I paid a lot more for it. But as it turns out, after I checked the receipt (because the bottle was written with a lot of beginner terms), I realized this wine is only $6.99 at Costco, which is …

I found this to be an excellent Chardonnay, balanced perfectly between fruit, oak, acidity and body.  Just lovely really from start to finish.  Costco’s price of $18.99 is well below the retail price of $25, and this drinks like a wine that cost even more than that. Vibrant nose, loads of fruit; apple, lemon, orange …

I wasn’t a huge fan of the 2012 or 2007 vintages of the Kirkland Alexander Valley Cab, but I’m actually not finding this new one from ’13 that’s in stores now to be that bad, almost beginning to enjoy it a bit after a good decant. Costco raised the price a dollar to $9.99 which …

It’s hard to really ding some of these Kirkland bottles too much because the price is so low.  For a Sonoma Chardonnay, this wine is fine, just ok, about what you would expect at a $10-$12 price point from this area, so kudos to Costco for bringing it in much lower than that. I looked back …

GUEST POST By: Paul Hodgins of I LIKE THIS GRAPE The giants of the wine media have been raving about Napa’s Stags Leap district for years. This “valley within a valley” about four miles north of the town of Napa is small – only about 2,700 acres, roughly half of it under vine – but …

A recent contribution to Huffington Post: “When most people hear the words “wine tasting” they immediately cringe and picture a stuffy room with snooty people sniffing glasses and spewing out all kinds of ridiculous adjectives to describe the wine, but to you it just tastes like “wine.” And that’s fine. Maybe you didn’t pick up …

Here’s a great value buy at Costco.  The label has everything you want to see: Chianti Classico, Riserva, DOCG, and a price tag at Costco of only $12.99.  I dropped this one in the cart almost automatically when walking by and you should too because this is a perfect food wine for almost anything, amazing …

The Kirkland Brunello is back with the 2011 vintage, right on the heels of the excellent 2010 vintage that was released earlier this year.  As expected, readers have been writing in about this new arrival, and I’m thrilled to have finally found it near me.  But I’m even more excited because I stocked up on …

I was kind of surprised to see the ’15 vintage of this arrive at my Costco stores, since it was about a year ago that we reviewed the 2013, so looks like we missed a vintage in there (coincidentally we jumped from ’11 to ’13 so maybe this one does skip vintages).   Regardless, I thought …