From now through September 7, Safeway stores in the Bay Area are having big a wine sale on various wines. The standout bargain in the wines offered is the Domain Chandon sparkling wines. Depending on the Safeway, you will find Domain Chandon in three styles, Brut, Rosé, and Extra Dry Riche. If you have a Safeway club card the cost per bottle for Chandon is $12.99. If you purchase half a case you get an additional 10% off. That brings the price down to $11.70 per bottle. This is an amazing wine bargain.
The suggested retail price for any of these three very good tasting sparkling wines is $22. Just check the Domaine Chandon Website. In many stores you can find this wine priced as low as $15. So, buying a six pack of this wine with your club card is a fantastic discount. You save plenty and the sparkling wine is very good.
Of the three styles the best in our estimation is the Riche pictured on the left. It is a beautiful wine and goes well with many foods. Unfortunately, the Riche is the hardest to find at the Safeway stores. If they carry the Riche and have not stocked enough you can get a rain check. Try this wine and you will truly be amazed at its fantastic floral and soft fruit flavors.
I found this wine at my local TJ’s prominently displayed, so I am assuming it can be found in most Trader Joe’s stores in the S.F. Bay Area. If you like this style of Chardonnay, this is an excellent bargain. A sign on the display says the wine sells elsewhere for $40. This wine has a full-mouth feel, somewhat creamy, with butterscotch flavor, and a long finish. The “cliche” food match of Chardonnay with buttered popcorn could not be more perfect than with this wine. This will go well with a dish that has a cream sauce. Continue reading →
Hello to all to who are on the hunt for the ultimate wine bargain. Good Cheap Vino used to be associated with Ning, a company that provided social website tools very much like Facebook. Now that Ning is charging $20 a month for their services, we are going to try out Good Cheap Vino in a blog format. That means that the only way you can contribute is by making comments to a post or by posting a blog of your own.
The mission of the Good Cheap Vino blog is to let viewers know about the current state of wine bargains. When we see a fantastic wine deal, we want to share it with others. This all started a couple of years ago when a group of our friends began exchanging emails about wine bargain discoveries. “I just found an amazing Pinot Noir at TJ’s on a “Hustle Buy.” “I bought a case for $130.”
In the former format we had several active users who were wine shoppers that frequented Trader Joe’s, Bev Mo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and a few others. We can still do this by posting articles about the latest good wines at these stores.
We focus our attention on wines for under $20, but if you find something a little more expensive that is perhaps worth 2 to 3 times as much, let us know. There are a ton of bargains out there, and the word in the wine industry is that we are just at the tip of the iceberg. Keep coming back to Good Cheap Vino and please offer your suggestions and comments.
Happy wine-bargain hunting to all!
