I am an oenophile, and enjoy drinking red wines and of course, always enjoy shopping and tasting new wines.
I won’t say that I have a very sophisticated palate in tasting red wine, but I generally find that award-winning wines that have competed in blind tasting competitions would give me some indicator to the quality of the wine.
I found this trick or hack for you to list the Gold Medal wines in BevMo (bookmark this link) and you will be able to sort the wines:
Visit Bevmo here .
- Gold medal wines
- Sort the price from Low to High
- And… now you can get the wine for the best value (so to speak).
FYI, here in San Francisco Bay Area, I have a few wine stores that I enjoy shopping at:
The Wine Club (http://www.thewineclub.com/) – 953 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA Costco (enough said) Local Trader Joes (http://www.traderjoes.com/locations.asp) . Sometimes you can find a bargain Sonoma or Napa cabernet or merlot at less than $7.00 per bottle.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have other findings to share with other oenophiles!
Disclosure: I love new world wines (Napa Valley) better than old world wines.