I find myself saying this more often than not to my friends who buy two-buck chuck, which is actually three-buck chuck, spend the extra $1.49 and just get a Trader Joe’s Coastal wine instead. The Coastal brand never seems to disappoint for $4.49. The Sauvignon Blanc smells and tastes like a traditional Sauvignon Blanc: You’ve…
Category: White wine
Under $10, White wine
Review: 2014 Lenz Moser Gruner Vetliner
by wineforthewin •
Light, fresh, limes, easy drinking: Those are the notes I jotted down on my phone before I saw my friends try to cheers and then drop a glass of beer at a bar. It was a birthday after all. Mazel Tov! Lenz Moser is an Austrian winery and I hadn’t heard of it before. But…
Grenache Blanc, Paso Robles, Roussanne, Under $40, White wine
Review: 2015 Midnight Cellars Aurora
by wineforthewin •
We almost didn’t go to Midnight Cellars on out last trip to Paso Robles. We had already been to three wineries and I had made a rule that this time, we would cut ourselves off after three. That didn’t happen. We slid right back into our 4 to 5 wineries a day bit. Oh, well.…