This video will feature wines ideal for gifting, dinner parties, or just having around the house. I hope you’ll stay for the full video, but if you want to move ahead to the wine tasting, check the timeline below. A typical Costco carries just a couple of hundred different wines. Some are available year-round, but many are so-called treasure-hunt wines, available for only a limited time. This keeps the assortment fresh, and you’ll always find some unexpected. Part of the mix is under the Kirkland Signature label, sold exclusively through Costco. Prices range from $5 to several hundred dollars per bottle, with most between $15 and $35.

Aside from the standard price sign, there are a few others worth noting. Some will show an additional supplier-funded discount; pay attention to the promo expiration date. Others will have an asterisk in the upper right corner indicating the wine will not be replenished once it’s sold out. A seven at the end notes an item with a further discounted price. The assortment will vary by location. I intentionally did not choose any wine marked with an asterisk when this video was created. I picked up eight wines from four different countries.

Availability varies by location

Wines Tasted in the Video:

Wine 1 Costco item number 535594
2024 Bodegas La Cana Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain $15.99
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Wine 2 Item number 887774
2024 Kirkland Signature Cotes du Rhone Villages, France. This wine is typically available year-round. $7.49

Wine 3 Item number 1719926
2020 Château Corbin, Montagne Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France $12.59

Wine 4 Item number 1036433
2023 Kirkland Signature Pauillac, Bordeaux, France $19.99

Wine 5 Item number 1015932
2018 Bodegas Muriel Rioja Reserva, Spain $12.99

Wine 6 Item number 929290
2023 Kirkland Signature Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California $14.99

Wine 7 Item number 142368
2022 Wente Family Vineyards Wetmore Cabernet Sauvignon, Livermore, California $19.89

Wine 8 Item number 2003977
2019 La Magia Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy $29.99

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Chapter Markers
00:00 – 01:05 Wine Shopping at Costco
01:06 – 01:40 Costco Signage
01:41 – 03:55 Bodegas La Cana Albariño
03:56 – 06:19 Kirkland Signature Cotes du Rhone Villages
06:20 – 08:52 Chateau Corbin, Montagne St Emilion
08:53 – 10:39 Kirkland Signature Pauillac
10:40 – 12:23 Muriel Rioja Reserva
12:24 – 14:33 Kirkland Signature Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
14:34 – 16:22 Wente Cabernet Sauvignon
16:23 – 18:28 La Magia Brunello
18:29 – 19:29 Wine Talk

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Seven red wine brands are quietly robbing you blind — and seven are actually worth every dollar. I’m John Alanis, a certified sommelier, and in this video I expose 7 very popular red wines that are stealing your money, and 7 undercover gems.

Some of these “villains” are probably sitting in your kitchen right now. One costs less than $15 and tastes like soda with a cork. Another costs $90 and is engineered to taste identical, vintage after vintage, no matter what actually happened in the vineyard that year. I’m naming names — and a few of them are going to sting.

Then we flip to the wines that actually earn their price tag: a $40 bottle that massively over-delivers, and a wine you can grab at any grocery store that quietly outclasses bottles costing three times as much.

Watch the whole thing before your next wine store run — the reveals build on each other, and the order matters.

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