Wine Drinkers

[Swinging Johnson]

I go to Costco once a month to buy wine and though their selection is limited their prices are great. I drink both white and red with my favorite at Costco being Conundrum for $15.99/bottle where you'd spend double that in the local liquor store.

I have a few reds I like as well but I usually continue to buy the same old, same old with new bottles thrown in to see if anything catches my eye. Well, one finally did and unfortunately I did not get it at Costco.

For about $14 you can get one of the best pinots I have had in a long time excluding of course the big expensive bottles. Here it is: 2007 Gloria Ferrer Carneros Pinot Noir. The best and salud!

[NYSportsGuy210]

Yellow Tail

[Dank_Fire]

Wine mark ups are ridiculous. You could spend over a hundred on a bottle @ a restaurant. and pay less than half that at a grocery store for that same bottle

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[opie1988]

Yellow Tail

Yellow Tail is basically kangaroo piss. Terrible.

Swinger.......I recently had a client give me a bottle of merlot named "Decoy".

Excellent vino! I saw it at our local Costco last weekend. It's a little pricey (about $40 a bottle), but a great choice for a special occasion.

Enjoy, my friend.

[blackbeSSt]

toasted head is a pretty decent wine. i've only had the chard, but it was good considering im not a winer

[rthoughton]

I opened and was the chef at Jean Farris Winery and Bistro in Lexington KY. Check out this website: www.jeanfarris.com
They offer two levels of wine club membership that gets you discounted prices on all wines as well as assorted bottles delivered to your door.
I know, I know, KY wine... ha. I was thinking the same thing when I went out for my initial interview, but I was extremely impressed. this winemaker is ridiculously medaled and has won contests at all levels. His 'TEMPEST' blend was 5 votes from winning the best international wine in 2009. They make everything from Full Bodied reds (CabSauv, Merlot, Tempest, PinotNoir, PetitSyrah, Malbec, etc) to Dry Whites (PinotGrigio, Viogner, Chard) and everything in between (a phenomenal Rose, Riesling, and Dolces).
Every time I have introduced these wines to people of all wine knowledge levels, the response has been similarly positive.
Also, the current chef just became my brother-in-law and was awarded a James Beard Dinner in NYC. He is regularly televised in the area and is slowly becoming a very big deal. He was paired with celebrity chefs during the FEI games.
Check it out. They make some of the best wines Ive ever had, and with their variety, you will surely find something that you are going to love.

[rthoughton]

Wine mark ups are ridiculous. You could spend over a hundred on a bottle @ a restaurant. and pay less than half that at a grocery store for that same bottle

this is exactly the same for food. You go to a restaurant and you pay usually three times what they do. it costs you the same to cook it yourself.
And soda is even worse. a box of syrup can cost a restaurant about $40 and it last them for weeks.

[eidolon]

The wine I usually get at Costco is "Folie a Deux Menage a Trois Red 2009"
Buy 2 for 15 dollars

[BIGDAY]

La Crema wines are worth a shot. About a $20 to $24 bottle but can be found on sale quite often around $15.

[VegasVixen]

The best sweet white Resiling I ever found is Dr. Loosen, it's available at some Costcos (I have to drive to the next town to get it, they don't have it at mine.) This bottle costs me $80 at the Charlie Palmer Steak in Vegas, about $12 at Costco.

[The Prick]

swinger tell me the cat is lyin. swinger say it aint so swinger. swinger i got no place else ta go swinger.

[boneheaded1]

Costco has some great deals on wine. Great ones to be had on the cheap.

Whenever you see a Clos Du Bois buy it. Clos Du Bois is the In-n-Out of the wine industry. Excellent value. Consistently cream everyone else on quality for the dollar. Marlstone and Briarcrest are can't miss wines. If you find a better wine for less, don't hesitate, buy out every bottle the store has.

BV is a pretty solid winery as well.

Worked at a winery in Napa for about a year and half. Nothing better than walking down to the tasting room getting a glass and bringing it back to the desk. As a matter of fact on Fridays you didn't even need to go to the tasting room, usually around 1 p.m. the tasting room manager would walk around the office with a tray of various (full glases) of wine to hand out.

Great working at a winery if you are a wine person. Not only do you get 50% off from your winery but you get a minimum of 30% off at any other winery (and free tastings) just bring your business card. My favorite were the employee only warehouse sales. You see, if a case ever drops and a bottle breaks staining the labels of another bottle, that bottle cannot be sold. So they hold them and when they get enough, they mix and match, box them up by the case and have a sale for the employees only. $10 bucks a case. Cases are closed so you can't see what you're getting but you pick the case the you want. 1 case per employee then names are drawn for the right to buy the remaining cases. They would try to make each case somewhat even; white/red; ultra premium to standard line. Most wineries do it. My office mate had worked at 6 other wineries in the past and would regularly host a wine trading party (buy a case of yours are 50% and trade with other people who had bought theirs at 50%). By the time I quit (commute a little long and needed to make more money) I had over 22 cases of a wide variety of producers (all reds, I prefer reds) with each bottle having an average retail of about $80 (not restaurant prices but tasting room prices which is close to liquor store prices). Can't say I paid more than $5 a bottle on average (some were less than $1 from our sales or in trade while some I had paid like $50 although some were over the $100 mark). I had a "wine closet" (one of those environmentally controlled things you can get at costco, although I bought mine used from my boss) it was a 20 case model (so the more everyday wines were kept in the coolest and darkest place in the house). Whenever I pulled a bottle to drink from "the good stuff" I would replenish it by either buying (still had a box of business cards so I was still getting the discounts at area wineries), bartering (or more usually calling up some old co-workers to see if they had anything to sell).

So, what was in my collection you ask? At least a half case of each of the following; mix of Cakebread, Stags Leap Cask 23, Mondavi (all cabs), Caymus (cabs), 2 cases of BV's, at least 1 case each Marlstone & Briarcrest (one Jerboam of Briarcrest, 4 magnums of Marlstone), about 4 cases of various Pine Ridges (not well known, pricey but good), 6 Opus One's in 3 consecutive vintages, half a case of various Kenwoods, a couple of AWESOME St. Francis zins, a half case of Sebastiani cherryblocks, a nice sampling of what Alexander Valley has to offer as well and some others. It's quite a big list really. Actually, my wine closet was pretty much a wine lover's wet dream. My brother in law offered me $10K for the whole thing a few years back (wine closet included) but I told him to stick it because 1.) it was WAY low ball and 2.) To build it back on my own again would have taken at least two years and almost that much even with my connections.

However, just last year he made another offer of $15K cash, which was still very low figure. The thing about buying wine from a private party is you have no real guarantee if it was stored properly. In his case he knew 1,000% how the wine was handled/stored. Unbeknownst to him, I had recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes so wine was mostly off my list and I was going to start giving everything away to family and friends anyways. I might have been able to talk him up to $17.5K (which would still have been a great deal) without much of a problem but he's not an asshole so I sold him the whole thing for his $15K offer.

Really sad to see it go because it really was a dream collection but with my condition, I wasn't gonna be the one to drink it. A lot of bartering went into that collection (bartered 2 cases for used civic once). The good thing is, he usually hosts Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas dinners for my wife's side of the family so I still get to have a small glass of those wines when he whips them out (which he always does).

Really cool to see a wine thread here. Figured most people on here were beer and whiskey guys.

[boneheaded1]

RT,
I always loved a good Malbec. They used to be pretty uncommon as it was just thought to be a blending a grape (plus they were very susceptible to phylloxera).

[mrmarket]

I defer to my uncle on these matters. He prefers to have his favorite vintage on his hands knees sucking it out of a box.

[doylfish]

La Crema wines are worth a shot. About a $20 to $24 bottle but can be found on sale quite often around $15.

this.

The best sweet white Resiling I ever found is Dr. Loosen, it's available at some Costcos (I have to drive to the next town to get it, they don't have it at mine.) This bottle costs me $80 at the Charlie Palmer Steak in Vegas, about $12 at Costco.

and this.

really like la crema pinot, and my girlfriend loves the dr loosen riesling