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- californiagirl - 05-21-2004
amb- You should also try beverages & more. Albertsons, Safeway, Raleys are great as long as you buy on sale, like you did. Otherwise, their prices are quite a bit more that bevmo or cost plus.
- mark mellon - 05-28-2004
Try Yellowtrail a good Austrilian wine around $8-10 per bottle and some store offer discounts for cases and swipe cards getting the wine down to $6-7 per bottle.
Good Luck
- Kcwhippet - 05-28-2004
Florida must have some really high prices. The regular price for Yellow Tail in our shop is $6.99 - and no tax added on.
- thewoodman - 05-29-2004
For Sacramento, IMHO Cost Plus has generally good prices on standards, but a less than inspired selection. BevMo really doesn't have that great of prices, and the staff are not very knowledgable. Grocery stores (Raley's, BelAir, etc) are marginal at best, but okay if you need to pick up a bottle when you are doing your grocery shopping. Trader Joe's can have some good deals if you know what to look for, but also has a lot of plonk that's specially bottled for them.
For real wine shops, I recommend Beyond Napa at Fulton and Fair Oaks, the Nugget Market at Florin and I-5, The wine consultant on Greenback, Corti Brothers on Folsom Blvd., and the Wine Merchant near the Folsom outlets. All of these places have real wine professionals who actually tasted and selected the wines for their stores.
- winoweenie - 05-29-2004
Darrell Corti is very knowledgeable. WW
- californiagirl - 05-29-2004
Those are some great places to buy fine wine. Others are Capitol Cellars in Roseville and Gold River, Secret Cellars in Roseville on E Rsvl Pkwy, and Wine Merchant on Galleria in Roseville.
But since this is a thread for everyday wines, bevmo, cost plus and tj's are more than acceptable. They have good pricing, and if you ask for the wine buyer, or go in during banker's hours, you'll almost always be talking with someone who knows there stuff. Most of the places woodman spoke of and I listed first, don't have a wide selection of inexpensive wines for the novice wine drinker looking for everyday wines.
Incidently, the other reason I shop bevmo for everyday wines is that they have a grocer's license for wine due to the size of the store and the number of stores in California. Prices are generally less expensive that the grocers. So it just depends on what you are looking for. Bevmo can't carry wines that importers and wineries designate for restaurants and specialty shops. (I'm not sure if the terms I used are 100% correct, but that's the jist of it.)