I like to save money and avoid paying full retail price wherever I can. Living in Pennsylvania, it’s pretty hard to save money on alcohol and wine. I’m lucky that I can walk to Delaware if necessary, and they have privately owned stores that offer slightly better prices. And my favorite local store, Hockessin Liquor, has had 15% off coupons on the backs of Acme receipts for months. Plus no sales tax.

But we live in a no wine tag state. If I didn’t participate in national online coupon forums, I wouldn’t even know about wine tags. But I do, so I know. And I wish we had them. But we don’t. We live in a completely old-fashioned and archaeic system as far as liquor stores, and every governor says he’s going to change it and he never does. Pfft.

Anyway, last week’s Red Plum inserts had several $1.50 off wine coupons for brands such as Clos du Bois and Robert Mondavi. I just checked online and the PA stores are advertising these brands on sale for $8 and up. I’ve had some of the Mondavi stuff, but not any of the other brands. For $6.50 or so, I’ll try it, why not. Can always use cooking wine if it sucks.

In the past when these coupons have been out, the Delaware stores, at least the ones in Hockessin, would not take them. I understand, they’re small, family-run operations and not set up for it. That’s fine. Perhaps Total Wine will take them, I haven’t tried. I know I’ve used them at the PA stores. Hockessin Liquor still has the 15% off one available and what’s nice about that is that there’s no minimum purchase like at Total Wine.

You can click on the wine image on the left to see the entire selection of Robert Mondavi wines.