Trader Joe’s Wine

Like Trader Joe’s grocery store, Trader Joe’s Wine store is an amazing place full of strange and interesting things I want to rry. When you first walk in, you’ll see the display for the «three buck chuck» or $ 2.99 Charles Shaw wine. Buy a bottle or two of your favorite style, cab, merlot, chardonnay, zin. They really are good quality and they make really good sangria. They also have other wines at affordable prices. One of my favorites is the blue fin Riesling. It’s affordable and it is the right style of riesling for my taste, slightly sweet.
If wine isn’t your thing, there is also a selection of hard liquor. I’ll come out and say it, I am a bourbon snob. Trader Joe’s has their own brand of bourbon. It is bottled in kentucky. I think the difference between trader Joe’s bourbon and high end (single barrel, small batch) is that this bourbon is blended, meaning they open a bunch of barrels, stir it up and bottle it. Many companies do this for the low end side of their booze. This is a good bourbon for making cocktails – think kentucky mule: ginger beer, bourbon and lime. (And you can get the lime and ginger beer next door at the grocery side.)
As far as other liquors, you can still get patron, Malibu and things like that. But the real deals come with getting the Trader Joe branded ones.
They also have Trader Joe branded beer. While I have tried a few, I’m not in love with any thing yet. IPAS are not my thing so someone else may REALLY love it.
Overall, the prices are reasonable. The selection is decent. You can easily go in there planning for a party and not break the bank.

I will start by saying this…3 BUCK CHUCK IS BOMB! They sell certain wines for $ 2.97 and they are quite tasty. I usually keep the Merlot and Cab Sav in my house in mass quantities. Some people say its nasty or even call it pesticide wine or dirty wine. I say don’t listen to them. If you want to good house wine or just keep some wines on hand, then grab you a few of these. The specific brand to look for is Charles Shaw aka 3 Buck Chuck.
This store also carries beers, liquor, and other wines.
Their staff are extremely helpful and friendly. They will give you suggestions based off of your normal taste. I like that. It helps me get something that I might truly like and not just taking a guess on my part.
Please note this store is specifically for grown up juice. I have never ever set foot in the regular Trader Joe’s beside it.

The main reason that I ever go to TJs for the 3 Buck Chuck. What’s that you ask? It’s $ 3 bottles of wine. Chardonnay, Cab, Merlot, and almost all of the basic wines, they have. Not the screw on cap, usual cheap wine either, it’s excellent, mid shelf wine, in my opinion. Now the cat is out of the bag though, I don’t consider myself as a wine snob, I go here for the cheap stuff. They do have the higher, more expensive wines too. They also offer wine tastings at certain times too… so look for that, usually around the customer service like desk podium, mid store to the right.
This store which is attached to the main grocery store, it has a separate entrance which makes it all the more convenient for me to swing in and pick up a couple bottles of wine… alright, maybe not just a couple, I go and stock up. They also have a fair amount of bourbons, other liquor and craft beer too.