You ever pick up a new wine because it’s cheap, and it’s your favorite type of wine, only to be disappointed? Well, on the same Smiths’ grocery store trip where we picked a bottle of the 2020 Alamos Malbec at 20% off, we also picked up a bottle of 2021 Don Miguel Gascon Malbec. So, … Read more
If you’ve seen some of the other wine reviews here on Drink Scouts, then you already know that we’re big fans of sparkling wine in this house. Now, what you might not know is that in recent years, Cremant has quickly risen to the top spot in our list of our favorite types of sparkling … Read more
Recently on the hunt for some new bottles of red wine, we stopped into our local Trader Joe’s to see if we could find anything cheap that we might enjoy. As luck would have it, there was an end cap display of several decent looking options and I picked the Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve Barossa … Read more
Always on the hunt for a good cheap red wine, we were recently at our local Smith’s grocery store and noticed they were running a 20% off four bottles of wine promo. Of course, that meant it was time to sample some new wines! Since Riley is a big fan of malbecs, we picked up … Read more
Recently I was looking for a way to improve the taste of some shockingly terrible blueberry wine, and decided to try adding some prosecco to it. Since I was out of Costco Kirkland Signature Asolo Prosecco Superiore prosecco, I popped out to my local Smith’s grocery store to see what they had available in the … Read more
I’ve already mentioned how prosecco isn’t really one of my favorite sparkling wines, but at the same time champagne prices are typically not cheap. So, when I came across this cheap French sparkling wine at Costo, I really thought I’d found something special. With a price of just $8.89 a bottle (June 2022), I thought … Read more
Recently on the hunt for a good cheap red wine from Trader Joes, I opted to try a bottle of Laurent Dublanc’s Côtes-du-Rhône. Typically, French red wines are my favorite (and Riley’s), so I really felt like this was a good choice for us. Plus, I tend to favor red wines made from Grenache and … Read more
If I’m going to buy a cheap sparkling wine, I tend to favor Cava over the other options. But it’s often easier to find prosecco already chilled when you’re traveling, and every so often I end up with one that’s not that bad tasting. So, lately I’d been trying more and more prosecco options at … Read more