Official Costco Thread

WINE TALK
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Chicago South Loop Costco is crap.

Lincoln Park is a bit better (much better for beer) but that store is a madhouse.

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Sacramento/Exhibition had the 2012 CH Private Rsv for $40 last time I was in there maybe 10 days ago. Still has lots of 2010 Montus to (mentioned above). Supposedly the CH Moscato is getting dumped at $5 too, but I did not verify that locally. Mine did not have the 2010 Damilano unf. A lot of the Treasury Wine Estate names are getting blown out at about the same price as the producers website case specials.

I was in the Roseville location about a week ago too, and that had a somewhat better/different selection, although I did not remember any deals in particular, beyond the 2012 Haut Bergey rouge for $20.

Great thread!

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nothing but dreck at my Costco–buyer must hate wine.

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a split is 187 ml. A 375 is a “half bottle.”

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Sounds like a great buy. Hopefully my Costco has it when I go later this week!

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Sherman Oaks/ Van Nuys Costco had two 3 liter Bollinger special cuvee in owc for $125. Picked up one, god only knows when I will drink a 3l?

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Culver City/Marina del Rey Costco has relatively little of interest. A fair number of Sta Rita Hills, Firestone, Fess Parker, etc. They’ve radically slimmed down their wine selection in the last couple years. Hopefully once they finish their expansion/remodel they will up the selection again.

One interesting bottle today was a 2005 Southern Rhone bottle for $25. CT said average value of $18, though, so I left it there. I suspect the $18 bottles were purchased in, say, 2008.

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Decided to check out Mountain View, CA Costco for the first time in years based on this thread. Surprised to see the the kind of selection they have now.

Solaia $168
Beringer Private Reserve Mag $199
Bryant Family $730
Scarecrow $550
2010 Pavie $360

None of the prices for the higher end didn’t seem that great.

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Anyone ever tried to return a flawed bottle to Costco?

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Yes. Mine weren’t terribly expensive so no issue on returns.

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Yes it was not a problem in any way on a ~$30 wine.

2012 C.V.N.E. Rioja Cune Reserva $14.99 Austin South
2009 La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Alberdi Reserva $12.99 Austin South when a random under $15 buy ends up very good; we are in over a case now on this one [cheers.gif]

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Costco Novato has Goyette Sonoma Coast 2013 Pinot on sale for $10.99. Very nice mid week drinker or cellar defender. Seems about 89 points to me anyway.

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Their return policy is amazing. You could seriously probably return a bottle you bought 2 years ago.

Illustrating yet another reason why i freaking love Costco

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Lincoln Park having a Coravin roadshow promo on cartridges this week, 10 for $70 and 24 for $150. Rep says they will be hitting other stores in coming weeks, an they are running this roadshow nationwide for one month, so call your local store.

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Umm, are they selling the Coravin too and, if so, how much?

TIA.

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Yup, $299.

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Sunnyvale Costco has
Haut Smith Laffite’s second wine, Le Petit 2012 for $22
2007 Cristal for $190 which isn’t that great of a deal but if you value their return policy its an okay buy.
They also had some Montus left if you guys were still looking.

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Thanks Rich but fair warning to the rest of Board that this wine (Lot 522 2014 Contra Costa Zin/Petite Sirah/Syrah) is only currently available in Costco’s in AZ and the San Diego area currently. Hope to get into NorCal Costco’s here shortly
of course, its on our website as well.

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Got Potensac 2005 for $16.99 @ Bloomfield Hills Costco last week; went back for more and price was up to $37.99

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Curious, since you’ve had your wines in Costco for some time now, do you have to pitch each individual sale to each Costco? I figured they would have a set order for each store of x number of cases per release.