It’s like Christmas came early this year, because the 2025 Costco Wine Advent-ure Calendar wines have been named! It’s almost enough to make me want to brave the weekend crowds at my local store to see if that pallet has been plopped down onto the wine aisle yet. (Update: It’s here!)
The Costco Wine Advent-ure is a beloved December tradition for wine enthusiasts and explorers. You get to try a different wine every day from December 1 to December 24. Or hang them on the Yule tree as ornaments. Or mix them into holiday gift baskets and care packages. Or get your wine pals together and drink them all in one sitting…we won’t judge.
The Wine Advent-ure Calendar will retail for $99.99 in 2025. (It’s been the same price since 2019.) That works out to a little more than $4 a bottle…and sometimes the whole kit goes on sale for even less as December approaches. These inexpensive, varied international wines offer a fun opportunity for food pairing experiments, tasting practice, or simply exploring new styles.
The assortment of 24 half-bottles (375 ml) comes packaged in a colorful cardboard crate. Most Costco stores have an open case in the wine aisle so you can rifle through it to make sure the wines are something you’ll actually like.
If you don’t enjoy spoilers, then (obviously) don’t peek inside that box! And stop reading now, because we found the list and we are about to spill the beans on the 2025 wines.
The 2025 Costco Wine Advent-ure Wines
All of the wines come from Flying Blue Imports, a California-based importer and private label service. They source wine from around the world and package it for the wine subscription and gift industries.
In the past, the wines have ranged from “meh” to actually pretty tasty. In our opinion, Costco’s offering is a step up in quality from Total Wine’s similar wine advent calendar which is stuffed with same-y California juice.
And Costco’s is easier to obtain consistently than ALDI’s version. That wine calendar is a limited-stock “ALDI Find” which usually leaves me empty-handed after driving around to a bunch of different stores looking for it until I eventually give up and settle for bringing home the Emporium Selection “Cheese Village” Advent Calendar and assuaging my frustration with 24 flavors of European butterfat. (Naturally, the cheeses are sequenced to pair with the wines and include tasting notes from the wine calendar. Thanks for rubbing it in, ALDI.)
Anyway, I reviewed the 2024 Costco Wine Advent-ure Calendar last year and was impressed with the overall variety and the novelty of some of the selections. Those little bottles are lots of fun! My family had a jolly December blind-tasting the wines, sneaking them into movie theaters, and adding them to food and drink recipes. And we were thoroughly entertained by the hilarious and creepy AI-generated art dump that accompanied its release.
This year’s calendar features wine from 14 countries. Styles include red, white, rosé, sparkling, flavored, and even a saké. Many of the wines are rather generic regional blends. Still, there’s enough variety here to classify this box as a whirlwind trip around the world of wine.
The half-bottles are very convenient for when you have an early morning and don’t want to overdo it. You can even re-purpose them to store your half-finished leftover wine from larger bottles and keep it fresher for longer.
Some popular labels from the 2024 calendar are back, including the Sheep Station Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (yum!) and the Mendoza Nights Malbec (it was okay). Some new picks to look forward to include a ripasso-style semi-sweet Italian red, a Chilean Carmenère, and a white Bordeaux. (No Pinotage or Chianti this year, bummer.) And like usual, there’s a slew of dry red and white blends to pair with your holiday takeout or home cooking.
I’ll be getting my hands on the 2025 Costco box o’ cheer as soon as possible. It’s usually available in select Costco stores starting from mid-September. But for now, feast your eyes upon this year’s contents (links are to individual wine reviews):
L’Artiste Ripasso (Puglia, Italy)
El Campeón White Sangria (France)
Champs de Foin Cabernet Sauvignon (Pays d’Oc IGP, France)
Sheep Station Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough, New Zealand)
Concentric Circles Red Blend (Australia)
A Seaworthy Tale Grüner Veltliner (Pannon, Hungary)
Queen’s Gambit Zinfandel (California)
The Conductor Chardonnay (Pays d’Oc IGP, France)
Ryokō Futsu-shu Sake (Japan)
Vin Twenty Three Red Blend (Côtes du Rhône, France)
Baciato Dal Sol Red Blend (Italy)
Blue Seirína White Blend (Greece)
Latitude 44 Pinot Noir (France)
Solo Reflections Chardonnay (Australia)
Flutter Rosé (Aude IGP, France)
Starlight Wonder Chenin Blanc (Western Cape, South Africa)
Cielo d’Oro Carmenère (Chile)
Aralena Pinot Grigio delle Venezie (Italy)
Mendoza Nights Malbec (Argentina)
Meadow Moon Riesling (Landwein Rhein, Germany)
Brillo Solar Garnacha (Spain)
Maison du Lac Bordeaux Sauvignon Blanc (France)
Once Upon a Time Chocolate-Infused Red Wine (France)
Ciel Bleu Sparkling Brut (France)
We picked up our 2025 Wine Advent-ure Calendar at the end of August in Plano, Texas. Check out this article for first-look photos.
Are wine advent calendars one of your holiday traditions? Have you spotted the 2025 calendar at your local Costco yet? What pours are you looking forward to the most? Let us know in the comments!
Review disclosure: I was not compensated or provided any free products for this review. Opinions expressed on The Wine Fairy blog are entirely my own.
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