Wines from Costco

The Kirkland cashew nuts go well with the wines in the afternoon.

 

A Costco trick. If you look on the product price tag and see a * symbol on the sign. Don't buy the product it sucks and is not selling well. I guarantee you see the * sign on the sign, that product will be discontinued very soon. Stay with wines with no asterisks and they should be decent choices.

 

I buy wine at Costco. My favorites are the Rioja's. My favorite of these is the pic below.

Mark, I signed up for a wine club, check out Casemates.com. We've gotten a couple really nice wines so far.

 

Here is the pic:

 

I get a variety, mainly reds. I usually buy by the case so it easier. Their Kirkland Malbec is good at a great price for an everyday wine. Some recent purchases. All depends on what you like. Buy and make a note.
Haven’t tried the whites below.

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For some reason, Costco near you doesn't seem to list any alcoholic beverages on their website so I can't check what they've got.

However, I buy this Chianti Classico from Publix (supermarket in the southeast), but it looks like it's available from this supplier near you:

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Rocca dell Macie Chianti Classico
http://www.totalwine.com/wine/red-wine/sangiovese/rocca-delle-macie-chianti-classico/p/5509750?s=1105​

Not sure where you are in relation to them, but there's another store in Vegas if you're not close and you want to change the store locator.

In other news, I found this website when searching for "Costco wines", and they might give you a head-start on this thread:

http://costcowineblog.com/highest-rated-costco-wines-2017/​

Haven't really perused their blog much, but it seems like they've done a few reviews of Malbecs you might find helpful.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

The Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse is a nice little selection. At least it was ten years ago. No recent experience, but no reason to think it's gone downhill. There are several Louis Jadot wines that are nice, and the Chateau Ste. Michelle wines are favorites of my wife. It's the house Cab at a some of Disney World's restaurants.

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The LJ Beaujolais is nice too. Another of our favorites. I did recognize the names from past purchases so picked up those whites.

 

The Costco we visit in DC doesn’t list any alcohol online that I can find. Where do they list it?

 

We get about 3/4-ths of our wine from Costco. Wife generally refuses to spend more than $25 or so on a bottle, and still, we've not been disappointed very often from our Costco wines. The Kirkland branded ones have been uniformly good. Admittedly, we do not have the most sophisticated palates. We stick mainly to French (we've bought several bottles of the Kirland-branded Gigondas & they have yet to disappoint), Italian (had an excellent Luca Bosio barolo last week; above the wife's cheapskate limit, but so worth it! ) and Portuguese (2011 Vale de Cavalos is good & seems to be in near constant supply @ our Costco) reds during the cooler months. When it heats up, Italian pinot grigios are high on our list @ Costco. Plus, she loves the $7 prosecco in the purple bottles. We go through the bubbly like Frenchmen!

Another good wine has been this
https://www.vivino.com/wineries/albert-bichot/wines/bourgogne-pinot-noir-reserve-de-l-orangerie-2013
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The Jadot Beaujolais, as mentioned earlier, has been good from Costco.

I have the Vivino app on my iPhone, and recommend it for Costco wine buying. You can use Vivino & the iPhone's camera to snap pics of the label, and it'll search the wine, show you average prices (Costco is usually less than the average quotes), and give a rating. It'll also maintain a database of wines you've searched, and if you buy one and like it, you can rate it. We have found that anything rating > 3.5 stars (out of 5 total) on Vivino - and many of the wines sold by Costco have a goodly # of reviews - within our pricing parameters, is usually a good buy for us.

Enjoying a 2010 Haute Medoc (Chateau Fontesteau) the wife picked up @ Costco tonight...T

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I use the Vivino app too. Good resource. I buy some nice ones, but mainly a cheapskate here too.

 

We bought Dom Perignon @ Costco when the Mets were last in the World Series. Great price! There's a very good local wine & spirits chain - Goody Goody - which is our "go to" for the occasions we dabble in the more expensive bottles of wine...T

 

+1 on using the Vivino app at Costco. You can find some fantastic deals on good wine. I am looking for something that is cheaper than the average price and >3.9 stars.

 

Our taste buds are more adventurous (or, we're cheaper! ), > 3.5 Vivino & it's go time for us @ Costco.

T

 

Oh I go cheap!! Try to stay in the $15-$20 range. We go through too much wine to spend much more than that.

 

We're enjoying this tonight. Previously we enjoyed a 2011. Tonight the 2015.

https://www.winemag.com/buying-guide/pocas-2015-vale-de-cavalos-red-douro

Average of $16 & 3.8 stars on Vivino. Really enjoyable...T

 

Tom...that must have been a great vintage....last time Mets won WS? What was that, 1969?

 

Joker. This is a good thread. Can you give us a little more idea of price points? I will post more later, but 3 everyday (esp. with warmer weather coming) whites are Kim Crawford NZ SB ($11). And the A to Z and King Estates (both NW U.S.) Pinot Gris are great values at around $ 13. A cheap pizza wine is Monte Antico, a Super Tuscan for about $ 10 (any year but 2014). If you buy beaujolais, stick with the 2015 vintage, the best in ten years.

 

No, 1986! The vintage on the Dom was, however, much more recent than that! I want to say 2011, but that'd be a rough guess...T

 

We opened this last night to go with our bistecca alla fiorentina.
I'd say the 3.5 stars suggested by Vivino was fair. Good, not great.
Don't recall the price, alas.
T

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+1 We've been enjoying a couple of 2015 French reds the past several months.

Keith - do you recommend drinking now, holding for a few years, something else?

T

 

I have no idea... but say drink it now.