Do they have Cost Plus (also called World Market) all over the country?
Around here, that’s an even better place to buy wonderful wines under $10/bottle than Trader’s. Each store has a wine buyer, who usually will come out of the back offices if you ask. Every time I go in there and ask for advice on a good wine for around $10 or less, I come away with something delightful. They usually come from Spain, Italy, Sicily (!!), Latin America, Australia, or New Zealand. Costco groups its fancier wines in display racks and stacks the cheap stuff in boxes. Try cruising the fancy display racks for wines around $10 — the other day I found a really tasty wine there for $8 — and then go over to the boxes and look for wines from Europe, Latin America, and the South Seas. Costco is now bottling wines under its Kirkland brand; some of those are very good at reasonable prices. Reply Rich says: 12/23/2007 at 9:35 am Here are my tips: If you don’t know what to buy, go to a smaller wine shop, not the large supermarket size one. Ask for some help, preferably from the owner or
