Zinfandel - 2015

Were fresh off the heels of reviewing the first Costco wine advent calendar for the 2020 season, known as the Advent-ure calendar, and then bam, theres another one and it looks super promising as well. What a great early holiday gift for Costco wine fans. The Costco wine advent calendars sold out super fast last year, so be on the lookout on your next visit and dont hesitate if this sounds up your alley after reading this. I received a ton of emails from people last year trying to find them aft...

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The Wine Advent Calendar is back for 2020. Actually, its back in two versions. Thats right, there are two of them this year, and I have the other one Im working on writing up right now too. This is one of the most popular Costco items we review every year, so we couldnt wait to jump into it. Here’s what we said about it last year. For this first Wine Advent Calendar, we will be calling it the Wine Advent-ure calendar. It might look familiar as the packaging is simi...

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Year in and year out, the Kirkland Stags Leap Cabernet is a reader favorite, and one of mine as well. The first thing to note as the new vintage hits stores is the price which has stayed the same from the 2017 vintage. It was starting to creep up a couple bucks every year, so let’s hope it stabilizes here. Regardless, Costco is offering access to one of the premier regions of Napa at a price that’s virtually unheard of with any other bottle from Stags Leap. And people in the know, l...

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This bottle will go down as one of the most interesting Sauvignon Blancs I’ve tasted in years. It comes to us from Orin Swift Cellars and from the Russian River Valley. As anyone who’s tasted Orin Swift wines can attest, they can be big and bold, unrestrained; and that’s exactly how this Sauvignon Blanc hit me, and in a good way. The price is $20 at Costco, which is about half of retail which I found online, along with some big scores from the wine critics. The wine pours a pa...

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We are always on the lookout for bottles that have the special limited time Costco discount, taking even more off the already low price. In this case though, the discount was just the icing on the cake. This wine is so good, it’s a steal at the regular price of $14.99, which is still below the retail of $20, and the $6 discount brings it down to only $8.99. The label on the bottle’s neck proudly displays the 93 point rating from James Suckling, and Wine Enthusiast also liked this on...

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New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs are almost built for the hottest of the hot summer months. We love them poolside, on the beach, pretty much near any body of water on a sunny day. And many of these wines hover around the same price and quality, in our opinion. As were entering the fall months now, some of the water access starts to subside, and the weather isnt quite as hot (at least in the Atlanta area). I find these wines can be a great way to kick off dinner prep, or just to sh...

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As long-time readers may know, my wine journey began in the Pacific Northwest when I lived in Seattle, WA and Oregon prior to that. It was the late 90s and early 2000s and the wine landscape in the Northwest looked a lot different compared to today. There were plenty of small wineries and more popping up on a regular basis. At the time many of them served as venues for parties being thrown by technology companies, which is how I first starting visiting them. But it seemed like the craft b...

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