bought 3 or 4 along with a bunch of other 19 brdx
I really don’t collect brdx
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Tasting note on the Pommery sparkler would give me pause.
-Al
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Great deal on the Bouchard Le Corton!
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Chateau Palmer 2020 at ssf $350. Klwines has it for 300 so it’s a pass for me
Rarely. The DC/NOVA area Costcos were blanked on the great 2019 Bordeaux buys seen elsewhere.
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That’s a great deal, but even far more importantly, a great wine. You’re going to love that whenever the time comes to open it.
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Tried the 2019 Kirkland Saint Julien and was just OK. Will return the other 3 bottles. 80/20 merlot and cab. Couldn’t place the wine as being from BDX. Round and ready but better to allocate the $17 to something else IMO
Bought the 2019 KS Barolo also and haven’t tried it
I would 100% keep them and use them for in-laws over holidays!
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Seattle area has magnums but not yet in the Portland area (or the few they send us here are gone already)
Found one stray bottle of 2019 La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion for $55 at Roseville,CA Costco where I stopped for gas. Must have been on a clearance sale, with an asterisk.
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I am sipping a coravin taste of 2018 Kirkland Brunello from Pentagon City VA - like 18$. I have to say, I am impressed. I have been tasting my way around several ~40$ Brunello’s recently and this cleans their clock. Has the profile of a Brunello, rather than more generic sangiovese as is oftwn the case with the cheap stuff. I get very dry red fruit, dried flowers, appropriate acid, and a bit of tar. I haven’t been impressed by Kirkland Barolo, but this does it for me. I saw about 20 left and I’m hoping to go grab a few of those myself.
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I saw it here in MN at 19.99 and grabbed a 6 pk. A no brainer at that price.
If it even tasted like a decent BdM, it’s an attractive price.
-Al
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Its a bit surprising because it looks like it is made by the Ridolfi winemaker. Well, I bought a bottle of Ridolfi BdM from Costco a few months back for thirty something, and it was bland. I was dissapointed but thought “what do you expect for cheap BdM”. But this is actually much better imho.
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I thought the '17 was not good, but it’s also a lesser vintage.
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It’s funny that at Seattle SoDo, they put $85 750 mls behind glass and you have to go get them at the service desk, but they have $300 large formats just sitting out on a table in the wine area.
Harder to hide a magnum on the way out. I chatted before with my regular Costco alcohol section guy and he was telling me the stories of people sneaking bottles out all the time. Purses, jackets, under empty boxes, etc.
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I thought you could not return wine at Costco? At least in California?
Unopened items are different than trying to return a flawed bottle that has been opened and has TCA for instance.