On The Hunt for Good Cheap Wines (Trader Joes Edition) | Wine Folly
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- Can we spend less than $10 for good cheap wine at Trader Joes. Sommelier, Madeline Puckette shows how to drink well on a budget. Take a Wine Folly Course → wfol.ly/YT-course
It's possible to find great wines with a little wine education.
01:00 - Wines Reveal: How much was it?
01:40 - Susumaniello $9.99
02:43 - Portuguese Red Blend "Vinha da Fonte" $8.99
03:49 - Spanish Red Blend "Laya" $8.99
05:00 - Washington State Wahluke Slope Syrah $9.99
06:04 - Bordeaux Blend Chateau Roudier Montagne-Saint-Emilion $13.99
07:09 - Get a Wine Education
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I live in Valencia and Laya is one of my favorite “house wines” that can be found at grocery stores here for less than 6€. So happy to know my friends and family back in the states can find it at Trader Joe’s!
wow!
🎉 Oh I absolutely love Trader Joe’s wine selections. It makes me feel like I’m actually rich. Rich in wine! but yes nothing feels better than to go here and spend a $100 on wine and leave out with 12 bottles of wine from around the world. 😂😂 there’s a few staples that I always buy from Trader Joe’s like Beaujolais by Georges Duboeuf and also they have a great Italian ValPolicella reserve. 🍷
“a whopping $14 bones” gave me a Gary V, Wine Library TV flashback :)
Yep! My wine life grew up with Gary V.
Cecilia Beretta Amarone della Valpolicella for $25 is a great deal. This wine is excellent for the price. My favorite Trader Joe's find.
Really glad you picked and liked the Susumaniello! I absolutely love that wine and it’s great with food too as well as just sipping and casual conversation. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere except Trader Joe’s.
I love your “Wine Folly” book. I’ve learned so much from it and love the way you lay everything out - aesthetics and info. I work at two wineries in NC and just stumbled across the CZcams channel and this plus the book have been really helpful! 😊
Oh thank you!
TJ's has GREAT value wines in Syrah and Malbec and Tempranillo wines from Spain. Your Book has helped me get creative with wine selections -- Thanks!!
Love this. I've seen that Susumaniello on the shelf there and have been tempted to grab it. I definitely will now. I do find some really nice wines there all the time. Among them are Muscadet, Amarone, Cava and a nice Prosecco from Valdobiaddene, to name just a few. Hope you're well. Sláinte!
Trader Joe's has been my go to place for years, I love both their Whites and Reds, I miss the wine of the week tastings, I wish they would come back with that because I usually bought a couple bottles of their wine that I was tasting.
Bravo, Madeline! Could you do another video featuring white wines from Trader Joe's?
Thank you, I’ve found some very good inexpensive wines at Trader Joe’s
Happy Easter! 🌷
I really enjoy Washington State Syrah, but I admit that I like a little acid in my reds!
Trader Joe’s didn’t have 5 bottles of Barolo for my $100.00 😢😢… 😂🤣😂🤣 love your show 😆
Thank you for making a video on value wines at Trader Joe's! This helps ordinary people, with families and budgets, to find and enjoy great wine. Your "Wine Folly: Magnum Edition" is my wine bible. Absolutely love it, along with your great videos. Cheers! 🍷
Glad you enjoyed it! There is a wine for every person and every budget :)
Hey Maddy, Another fantastic video. Finding good cheap wines at Trader Joe's is a part time job for me. I have turned up some wonderful bargains, and some clinkers too. I tend to favor red blends when I'm buying low cost wines. Most of them make good vin du table and are excellent for cooking too.
Try the Dark Horse Double Down red blend!
@@MickPosch Thanks. Will give it a try.
There are some definite value gems at TJs. Pago Lencia is one of them. Tempranillo under $10 that tastes twice the price!
Thanks for sharing!
I love your videos! We go for Tenebres GSM for 5.99! A bit jammy for some, but we've never had a bad bottle.
I'll be stopping by my local TJ this weekend to see if they have that Susumaniello. I love Puglia wines, and this one sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the heads-up!
OMG! I finally got over to my local TJs and picked up a bottle of the Susumaniello, and WOW! This is a very unique, rich, and delicious wine. I was so impressed I went back a few days later and bought half a case to cellar. Thanks for the tip, Madeline!
I woke up this morning telling my partner that I would buy wine for Easter dinner at Trader Joe's and boom here's your video! Great minds think alike!
Would love to see you do the same at the Grocery Outlet!
Great piece. Was pumped to hear someone refer to dollars as “bones.”
I remembered this video from when I watched it a few months ago and bought that Puglia wine today!! Also saw 2 of the other ones…Portuguese and French and even the Prosecco from Conegliano you talked about in a different video. Our TJ’s have some pretty decent stuff. Can’t wait to try that Italian one soon!!
wow, that's really great to hear TJs has good options for you!
i have that bordeaux...i'll sit on it for a bit.
Laya is available in many of the better quality grocery store wine sections in my neck of the woods (Seattle area / distributed by Elliott Bay, at least it was back when I worked in the wine biz).
Good juice!
Unfortunately no wine sales in our grocery stores here in NY. But, a great video on how to find value wines. I remember the first susumaniello I tried as part of my Italian wine scholar certification, real hit of cherry coke on top of the fruit🍷🍷.
ohhhh gosh. state alcohol laws are what rage is made of. Also, incredible you've had a Susu! Great call on Cherry coke.
nice to see another video... happy health so we can drink more :D
So informative...
Glad it was helpful!
When I visit the U.S. first stop is a Trader Joes to pick up a box of their block red wine Shiraz from Australia… it’s never been a disappointment
gorgeous wines...
I'm going to try the first one for sure
right? So intriguing
Very nice selection. Trader Joes does offer some legitimately good value wines. The exception is the Trader Joe’s selection series. I did a tasting video on several of these private label wines and was VERY disappointed with all of them…
wow yes, that was the one of the mix that didn't meet standards. Agree. wow. so totally.
TJ has a great valued Chateauneuf du Pape.
Thx a bunch!! Can you do this with whites pretty please? 😬
I second that, go back for some whites please.
Do they still sell Charles Shaw, 3 buck chuck wine at Trader Joe's? Some of our Trader Joe's in NJ sell beer and wine, some don't.
What a great video! I'm often clueless when at TJ's and don't trust their wine people to know things! Now I have a shopping list!
fantastic! Have fun with it
We don't have Trader Joes in Taiwan/Asia, but we do have Costco and also Carrefour (a big French supermarket chain) and RT-Mart which is a Taiwanese supermarket chain originally with a majority stake held by Auchan (another big French supermarket chain),
We buy most of our wines from these three places and the variety, selection and quality has improved a lot during the last 5-6 years; as more regions, appellations and wine styles are becoming available. Kirkland Signature line of wines is growing and with Decanter reviewing their wines they have improved considerably.
I don't have any regular buys of wines, but being subscribed to Wine Folly TV, being an owner of WF Master's Guide (Magnum Edition) & a Decanter subscriber I have a bit of knowledge about picking up good QPR wines.
Glad to hear your selection is improving in Taiwan. I lived in Hsinchu for a year as a kid, what a spectacular place.
Everyone must have watched this.. at least in Minneapolis. Trader Joes is out of the Susumaniello because I can’t find any in or near St louis park.
Great video as always. There isn't a trader Joe's where I live but there is a grocery outlet. Have you considered doing the same thing at grocery outlet?
Grocery Outlet has some great finds! Don’t tell anybody lol
@@chucktelschow I hope you got in during the 20% off wine sale!
@@johnkuhn6115 You know it!!! LOL
@madeline can you review Eccentric bourbon barrel Malbec? It drinks like a cab to me. Can I get your thoughts?
Grocery Outlet wines could be an interesting one
We’ve had great luck finding amazing buys at Grocery Outlet. Don’t tell anyone! Lol
hahahah. The secret is out!
I'd love one of these value videos at a state run liquor store somewhere. i live in pennsylvania and my wine options are limited to one of those stores or a grocery store.
Yeah, Penn is highly controlled, definitely not as free. I met the buyer, apparently he was stocking up on Washington reds!
Pa state liquor stores have a great selection due to the amounts of wines they buy. But, it's always worth a trip across the Delaware river to NJ stores (Trader Joe's near Princeton or a Joe Canal's)
If (like me) you're from New Jersey, and you're wondering why your local Trader Joe's doesn't sell wine, it may have to do with liquor license laws. I heard - though this is hard to verify, so correct me if you know better - that a chain store in NJ is only allowed to have two liquor licenses - so only two TJ's in the entire state sell wine. But what's interesting is that for years I was convinced that my local TJ's didn't sell wine, until I finally noticed that the liquor store a few doors down was named "Wine Trader" and I was like "I....ahem...think I see what's going on here!"
Yeah, each state has its own set of laws dictating how alcohol is distributed and sold. For example, in Tennessee, you need to go to a state-run liquor store with a limited selection whereas, if you're in California, it's pretty open.
It makes is really challenging for people to learn about wine or even be exposed to quality wines. Places I never want to live based on their rigid rules include Penn, Alabama, and Utah. lol. Even if I love those states!
I've had the Laya many times. It's a great inexpensive go to for me.
smmmmmaarrrt!
Where do you get those maps that you were referring to? They look swanky! (And totally useful)
shop.winefolly.com - We design them!
when are we going to see some of the wine club videos?!?!
I love the effort and, of course, Wine Folly content ... but I could not really figure out whether you liked the wines are not. I got a good sense of what's on the nose and some of the taste, but not whether you liked them enough to recommend. :-)
Yeah, it wasn’t about recommending specific wines. It was about how to find value. I’m hoping people use the same types of thinking to find interesting wines as these wines are temporal, they won’t always be at TJs
Tell us about the Trader Joe classifications - Black Diamond down to Reserve.
those sound like labels and not classifications. is that correct?
Cool man cool
It would be nice to know the %alcohol for each wine.
Hi Madeline. You pixie of the wine world! Been following you since the inception of Wine Folly, own your book (have even given some away as gifts) and accessories, but now, finally, a comment. You need to occasionally give a negative review of the wines you are tasting in your videos to have some credibility besides just being a wine advocate. Just once I'd like to hear "whoa that's rough, or cloying, or dirty tasting, or even an occasional "yuck" - like all of us wine lovers happen upon everyone in a while when tasting/drinking. Every bottle you just happen to open and taste blind (e.g. the Trader Joe's video, can't be great. You need to let us know that too.
Still a fan, but would like your thoughts on this issue.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I generally avoid picking out and putting bad wines in video, because negativity doesn't help the topic of wine. That being said, this video isn't supposed to be about these exact wines, it's about how to think differently about wine in order to find great quality and value.
Based on the feedback so far, most people just wanted "The Answer" and a rating which I'm not too keen on offering up. learning might be harder, but it will always stick with you in the long run.
The $15 Barolo is undefeated buy at my TJs
Wow 😮
I really need to start shopping for 6 packs it's like 10% off each bottle. But, I think it's like minimum price wines only or something. The cheap wine I drink tastes like it's fake. But, I duno.
Sounds like a plan. Fake wines sound dangerous heh
@@Winefolly well, gas station wines you've never heard of. same thing haha
Try a costco edition 😊
Thanks for the rec!
So rate them on quality top to bottom please?
ahhhh It's in there! ;) you can tell. it's definitely subtle.
so which ones were your favorites?!
I can't tell of these compliments are backhanded...
Naked Wines. 6 bottles for $36. It is based on skipping all the middlemen and marketing hype.
I do really like her but I’m just so skeptical cause there’s so much evidence that you can only detect 3 wine tasting notes in a liquid and she lists like 5-8 immediately. I just don’t buy it tbh. But anyone who promotes wine is my friend.
You kinda have to train your palate / nose to start picking up the nuances. It takes practice! It's like smelling spices in a dish.
In reality, wine produces many volatile aromatic compounds which can combine to make 100s of different aromas. In fact, they're stereoisomers (mirror image molecules) to flavors we know (like strawberry!).
Seems like a SOMMtv BYOB with Claire Coppe episodes ripoff
oh ho! I like Claire Coppi - she's great. Haven't seen the series you're mentioning!
So I’m guessing that you’re recommending all these wines. It wasn’t really clear.
Not exactly, the goal of this was to show you how I think and choose value wines and I tested my selection. One of them didn't work out.
You should have bought 6 bottles as you get a 10% discount once you hit that level!
The checkout person judged me so hard!!!
No discount at Trader Joe’s, they focus on keeping the price of the single bottle low