I live in Valencia and Laya is one of my favorite “house wines” that can be found at grocery stores here for less than 6€. So happy to know my friends and family back in the states can find it at Trader Joe’s!

🎉 Oh I absolutely love Trader Joe’s wine selections. It makes me feel like I’m actually rich. Rich in wine! but yes nothing feels better than to go here and spend a $100 on wine and leave out with 12 bottles of wine from around the world. 😂😂 there’s a few staples that I always buy from Trader Joe’s like Beaujolais by Georges Duboeuf and also they have a great Italian ValPolicella reserve. 🍷

Cecilia Beretta Amarone della Valpolicella for $25 is a great deal. This wine is excellent for the price. My favorite Trader Joe's find.

I love your “Wine Folly” book. I’ve learned so much from it and love the way you lay everything out - aesthetics and info. I work at two wineries in NC and just stumbled across the KZfaq channel and this plus the book have been really helpful! 😊

“a whopping $14 bones” gave me a Gary V, Wine Library TV flashback :)

Really glad you picked and liked the Susumaniello! I absolutely love that wine and it’s great with food too as well as just sipping and casual conversation. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere except Trader Joe’s.

TJ's has GREAT value wines in Syrah and Malbec and Tempranillo wines from Spain. Your Book has helped me get creative with wine selections -- Thanks!!

Love this. I've seen that Susumaniello on the shelf there and have been tempted to grab it. I definitely will now. I do find some really nice wines there all the time. Among them are Muscadet, Amarone, Cava and a nice Prosecco from Valdobiaddene, to name just a few. Hope you're well. Sláinte!

Trader Joe's has been my go to place for years, I love both their Whites and Reds, I miss the wine of the week tastings, I wish they would come back with that because I usually bought a couple bottles of their wine that I was tasting.

Trader Joe’s didn’t have 5 bottles of Barolo for my $100.00 😢😢… 😂🤣😂🤣 love your show 😆

Thank you for making a video on value wines at Trader Joe's! This helps ordinary people, with families and budgets, to find and enjoy great wine. Your "Wine Folly: Magnum Edition" is my wine bible. Absolutely love it, along with your great videos. Cheers! 🍷

Happy Easter! 🌷 I really enjoy Washington State Syrah, but I admit that I like a little acid in my reds!

Thank you, I’ve found some very good inexpensive wines at Trader Joe’s

Hey Maddy, Another fantastic video. Finding good cheap wines at Trader Joe's is a part time job for me. I have turned up some wonderful bargains, and some clinkers too. I tend to favor red blends when I'm buying low cost wines. Most of them make good vin du table and are excellent for cooking too.

Bravo, Madeline! Could you do another video featuring white wines from Trader Joe's?

There are some definite value gems at TJs. Pago Lencia is one of them. Tempranillo under $10 that tastes twice the price!

I'll be stopping by my local TJ this weekend to see if they have that Susumaniello. I love Puglia wines, and this one sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the heads-up!

I love your videos! We go for Tenebres GSM for 5.99! A bit jammy for some, but we've never had a bad bottle.

I woke up this morning telling my partner that I would buy wine for Easter dinner at Trader Joe's and boom here's your video! Great minds think alike!

Great piece. Was pumped to hear someone refer to dollars as “bones.”

I remembered this video from when I watched it a few months ago and bought that Puglia wine today!! Also saw 2 of the other ones…Portuguese and French and even the Prosecco from Conegliano you talked about in a different video. Our TJ’s have some pretty decent stuff. Can’t wait to try that Italian one soon!!

Laya is available in many of the better quality grocery store wine sections in my neck of the woods (Seattle area / distributed by Elliott Bay, at least it was back when I worked in the wine biz). Good juice!

When I visit the U.S. first stop is a Trader Joes to pick up a box of their block red wine Shiraz from Australia… it’s never been a disappointment

Unfortunately no wine sales in our grocery stores here in NY. But, a great video on how to find value wines. I remember the first susumaniello I tried as part of my Italian wine scholar certification, real hit of cherry coke on top of the fruit🍷🍷.

So informative...

nice to see another video... happy health so we can drink more :D

Would love to see you do the same at the Grocery Outlet!

i have that bordeaux...i'll sit on it for a bit.

I'm going to try the first one for sure

We don't have Trader Joes in Taiwan/Asia, but we do have Costco and also Carrefour (a big French supermarket chain) and RT-Mart which is a Taiwanese supermarket chain originally with a majority stake held by Auchan (another big French supermarket chain), We buy most of our wines from these three places and the variety, selection and quality has improved a lot during the last 5-6 years; as more regions, appellations and wine styles are becoming available. Kirkland Signature line of wines is growing and with Decanter reviewing their wines they have improved considerably. I don't have any regular buys of wines, but being subscribed to Wine Folly TV, being an owner of WF Master's Guide (Magnum Edition) & a Decanter subscriber I have a bit of knowledge about picking up good QPR wines.

Very nice selection. Trader Joes does offer some legitimately good value wines. The exception is the Trader Joe’s selection series. I did a tasting video on several of these private label wines and was VERY disappointed with all of them…

Great video as always. There isn't a trader Joe's where I live but there is a grocery outlet. Have you considered doing the same thing at grocery outlet?

@madeline can you review Eccentric bourbon barrel Malbec? It drinks like a cab to me. Can I get your thoughts?

Thx a bunch!! Can you do this with whites pretty please? 😬

Do they still sell Charles Shaw, 3 buck chuck wine at Trader Joe's? Some of our Trader Joe's in NJ sell beer and wine, some don't.

gorgeous wines...

Everyone must have watched this.. at least in Minneapolis. Trader Joes is out of the Susumaniello because I can’t find any in or near St louis park.

What a great video! I'm often clueless when at TJ's and don't trust their wine people to know things! Now I have a shopping list!

Where do you get those maps that you were referring to? They look swanky! (And totally useful)

TJ has a great valued Chateauneuf du Pape.

I'd love one of these value videos at a state run liquor store somewhere. i live in pennsylvania and my wine options are limited to one of those stores or a grocery store.

I love the effort and, of course, Wine Folly content ... but I could not really figure out whether you liked the wines are not. I got a good sense of what's on the nose and some of the taste, but not whether you liked them enough to recommend. :-)

when are we going to see some of the wine club videos?!?!

I've had the Laya many times. It's a great inexpensive go to for me.

Grocery Outlet wines could be an interesting one

If (like me) you're from New Jersey, and you're wondering why your local Trader Joe's doesn't sell wine, it may have to do with liquor license laws. I heard - though this is hard to verify, so correct me if you know better - that a chain store in NJ is only allowed to have two liquor licenses - so only two TJ's in the entire state sell wine. But what's interesting is that for years I was convinced that my local TJ's didn't sell wine, until I finally noticed that the liquor store a few doors down was named "Wine Trader" and I was like "I....ahem...think I see what's going on here!"

Cool man cool

It would be nice to know the %alcohol for each wine.

Tell us about the Trader Joe classifications - Black Diamond down to Reserve.

Hi Madeline. You pixie of the wine world! Been following you since the inception of Wine Folly, own your book (have even given some away as gifts) and accessories, but now, finally, a comment. You need to occasionally give a negative review of the wines you are tasting in your videos to have some credibility besides just being a wine advocate. Just once I'd like to hear "whoa that's rough, or cloying, or dirty tasting, or even an occasional "yuck" - like all of us wine lovers happen upon everyone in a while when tasting/drinking. Every bottle you just happen to open and taste blind (e.g. the Trader Joe's video, can't be great. You need to let us know that too. Still a fan, but would like your thoughts on this issue.

I really need to start shopping for 6 packs it's like 10% off each bottle. But, I think it's like minimum price wines only or something. The cheap wine I drink tastes like it's fake. But, I duno.

So rate them on quality top to bottom please?

Try a costco edition 😊

The $15 Barolo is undefeated buy at my TJs

so which ones were your favorites?!

I can't tell of these compliments are backhanded...

So I’m guessing that you’re recommending all these wines. It wasn’t really clear.

Naked Wines. 6 bottles for $36. It is based on skipping all the middlemen and marketing hype.

I do really like her but I’m just so skeptical cause there’s so much evidence that you can only detect 3 wine tasting notes in a liquid and she lists like 5-8 immediately. I just don’t buy it tbh. But anyone who promotes wine is my friend.

Seems like a SOMMtv BYOB with Claire Coppe episodes ripoff

You should have bought 6 bottles as you get a 10% discount once you hit that level!