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Recently a good friend of mine approached me with an idea. The pitch is this: here is $200, can you set me up with a good case of wine? U...

We were very happy to see the newest vintage of the Kirkland Rioja Reserva (2015) in stock on a recent Costco run. However, we were quite...

2017 Kirkland Signature Napa County Cabernet Sauvignon ($14.99) vs 2018 Oberon Napa County Cabernet Sauvignon ($19.69) We found these two...

2018 Kirkland Signature Carneros Pinot Noir, Napa Valley ($9.99) vs 2016 Rodney Strong Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, Sonoma County ($1...

2015 Kirkland Signature Barolo, DOCG ($19.99) vs 2013 Prunotto Barolo, DOCG ($38.99) Kirkland bottles a Barolo - WHAT!?! If you know us p...

We here at VinoVistas are catching up on writing about some side-by-side blind tastings that we held recently. Being with family for a we...

As promised, here is our first post about our recent trip to Santa Barbara Wine Country. Let's provide a little background on how this tr...

Spending time with family has been a great excuse for us to experiment with more and more side-by-side blind tastings. This next one up w...

It’s a rare occasion for us to start our day with Prosecco, but when someone special has a milestone birthday, we need to make an excepti...

Apologies for the long wait in between our posts and wine reviews! It’s been an eventful couple of weeks that included both work and play...

We have been taking a little breather from our posts these last couple of weeks, and for that we are sorry! VinoVistas has been busy cre...

Summer is here (officially) and it's time for a side-by-side blind tasting of summer's perfect partner: Rosé. In this go-round we have th...

2019 Kirkland Signature Pinot Grigio (Friuli Grave) $5.99 vs 2018 Kris Pinot Grigio (delle Venezie) $8.99 We promise we drink wines from ...

Here they are - aren't they beautiful? From left to right, in no particular order: 2014 Nativ, Taurasi "Rue 333" (Campania, Italy) 2019 V...

We have been looking forward to this side-by-side tasting for quite some time and this week was the perfect opportunity to see how the 20...

For a number of years, we would regularly visit the beautiful Russian River Valley to taste wines from some top-flight producers, so we w...

Pizza night was here (yay!) and we thought it was time to have another side-by-side blind tasting - this time we opted for a pair of Cabe...

We've had another exciting week in wine! Looking at the partial lineup below, you might think that we were quarantined in Italy - even th...

It's been about a week since our last side-by-side blind tasting of a Kirkland Signature wine vs. a name brand, and we felt the itch to g...

In one of our first blog posts, we discussed the various vendors that we shop with to buy wine online. Today we are going to discuss one ...