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Your favorite red wine under $12/bottle

Old Nov 22, 2016, 4:34 pm
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Rodney Strong cab. Been reliably available at Costco in the $12-13 range for at least the past year if not longer.

I sometimes buy a whole case at a time.
That's a great price. It's $17.99 on wine.com.
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Old Aug 23, 2017, 9:41 pm
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Albertsons has Bogle Cab. on sale for $7.77 this week. Excellent value.
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Old Aug 24, 2017, 9:26 am
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I bought a mixed case of wines at ABC with an average price of under $10. The one we liked best was a 2014 garnacha from Spanish winemaker Borsao. Liked it enough to go back and buy a whole case of nothing but at approximately $8 a bottle.
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Old Aug 24, 2017, 9:27 am
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Any of the Apothic brands work for me.

Love the Inferno the best but wife is partial to the black.
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Naked Grape merlot. $9 CAD.

They don't use wood casks, but rather glass ones. Made in Niagara Falls, Canada, and available across the country.
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Recently I've enjoyed a few bottles of Paxis red blend. It sells for under $10 at Costco and Cost Plus World Market. It has a medium body and a very slightly sweet taste that helps it go well with a variety of food. It reminds me of one of my previous bargain-bottle faves from years ago, the Spanish garnacha Las Rocas that doubled in price after it became popular. Very approachable choice for people who are not wine aficionados.
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Originally Posted by darthbimmer
Recently I've enjoyed a few bottles of Paxis red blend. It sells for under $10 at Costco and Cost Plus World Market. It has a medium body and a very slightly sweet taste that helps it go well with a variety of food. It reminds me of one of my previous bargain-bottle faves from years ago, the Spanish garnacha Las Rocas that doubled in price after it became popular. Very approachable choice for people who are not wine aficionados.
Agreed - we keep several bottles of this on hand as our “homeowners association meeting”, “non-wine aficionado friends” and “maybe we only plan to drink half a bottle tonight” wine. Great quality for the price, a trait I find common to Portuguese wine.

If you step up a dollar or two, but still well under the limit in this thread, I also enjoy Casa Santos Lima “Colossal” Reserva, another Portuguese red Costco sells for under $10 a bottle. I like it a bit better than Paxis and find it to have a little more complexity and interest. My only real complaint is that the label graphic design is a little tacky.
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Old Oct 24, 2017, 3:38 pm
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Yellow Tail Shiraz.
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Old Oct 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
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The Velvet Devil, Cab or Merlot, from WA. Good everyday drinker. ~$11.
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Old Oct 24, 2017, 6:50 pm
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Apparently Dave Phinney (The Prisoner) is discontinuing his "Fittings" label. Phinney's wines have become way overpriced, but Fittings is being sold in Ohio now for about $15, which is $10-$13 a bottle less than it was a few months ago. If you're a fan of big, highly-extracted Grenache like I am, go get some. It's excellent.
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Old Oct 27, 2017, 8:31 am
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Apropos of nothing, I have realized I tend to like best wines that cost $15-25 a bottle. More than $25 becomes very difficult to tell if there's anything special there (aside from old Burgundies). Less than $15 usually just tastes like a fruit bomb. Though cheap Spanish and Portuguese wines are often as good as more expensive non-Spanish/Portuguese ones.
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Old Oct 27, 2017, 9:02 am
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
Apropos of nothing, I have realized I tend to like best wines that cost $15-25 a bottle. More than $25 becomes very difficult to tell if there's anything special there (aside from old Burgundies). Less than $15 usually just tastes like a fruit bomb. Though cheap Spanish and Portuguese wines are often as good as more expensive non-Spanish/Portuguese ones.
I hear you. Maybe we should have a new thread for red wines >$12, considering inflation (I can't believe I started this thread in 2006). Or $12>$25.
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Old Oct 27, 2017, 9:03 am
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Berry's Reserve Red - get it by the case when they're having a 15-20% off own label sale (a couple of times a year) and it's about 6.50 a bottle (=$9 or so). Bargain!
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Old Oct 27, 2017, 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by philemer
I hear you. Maybe we should have a new thread for red wines >$12, considering inflation (I can't believe I started this thread in 2006). Or $12>$25.
I find $12 still to be a relevant threshold. At least here in California there are plenty of selections below $12(ish) per bottle. It's fun to find one that's genuinely good, as opposed to merely drinkable. And $12 is a price level at which I'm happy to take chances. When I buy a $25 bottle I have very different expectations. I need to have tasted it before and found it worth the money, or have read reviews I trust. And I'll be loathe to open a $25 bottle "just because" on a Tuesday night. Whereas at $12 and under it's just part of the grocery bill.
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Old Oct 27, 2017, 7:48 pm
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Grard Bertrand, Syrah - Grenache, Languedoc 2014 @ Costco, ~$12. OK but needs decanting. A little "hot" right out of the bottle. 3.5/5.0
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