The Famous Wine Advent Calendars Are Back at Costco & Feature 24 Half Bottles From Around the World

We’ve already found ourselves already stocking up on pumpkin-flavored and fall-inspired groceries at Aldi, decorating our home with skull succulents at Trader Joe’s, and sprinting to Costco to get our hands on the warehouse club’s super-popular, sells-out-in-a-flash annual holiday offering: their Wine Advent Calendar, which just arrived in stores (and earlier than ever, no less).

Yes, it’s that time again when we’re running to our Costcos to get our hands on the wine advent calendar; because, yes, it’s finally back!

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On Oct 1, the beloved Instagram account @costcobuys say the beloved calendar, saying, “The famous wine advent calendar is BACK at Costco! This has 24 half bottles from around the world! It’s perfect as a gift for yourself or others! $99.99 at Costco! #costco #wineadventcalendar #adventcalendar #winelove.”

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Available for $99.99, Costco’s Wine Advent Calendar boasts 24 375-ml bottles full of wine from around the world, including France, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal and Hungary.

“We didn’t develop this idea, but we Costco-sized it,” Kirk Johnson, a wine buyer for Costco’s Midwest region, tells Costco Connection. Johnson added that they made the Wine Advent Calendar “bigger and better” this year by using half bottles instead of the standard 187-milliliter bottles typically seen in other packs. They also gathered 24 unique, premium-quality wines to create a “treasure hunt” for Costco members.

“Each year we taste hundreds of wines in order to reach the final assortment,” Johnson explains. And if you snagged this particular Wine Advent Calendar last year, don’t worry about tasting any repeats. This year’s assortment features completely different wines.

Can’t find the Wine Advent Calendar at your local Costco? Try checking again in a few weeks. According to Flying Blue, which created the product, this year’s Wine Advent Calendar will be in most Costco stores the first week of October.

For more information about each wine featured in the advent calendar, including wine profiles and the winemaking process, check out WineAdvent-ure.com.

“It’s our goal to make the pack a fun and interactive discovery of wines from around the world. Each wine has a short video describing it and the region it’s from,” Johnson says.

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