September 2013

To all Best Winers, That Eric Solomon guy is at it again. And this time he’s starting to dig his greasy mitts into Rioja…old school Rioja. Seems like all the ‘pub’ that the old school Rioja greats like Cune, Lopez de Heredia, La Rioja Alta and others have received of late has not escaped his notice. Heck, Eric probably knocks...

To all Best Winers, Ooohhh baby, Mencia is really starting to win us over. These wines produced from the ancient, high-desert slopes of Spain’s Bierzo region keep getting better and better as the new wave of producers that have descended upon the area keep learning more and more about just what makes this unique, exciting grape variety tick. What started...

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To all Best Winers, This just in! When Bob Parker says about a $10 wine, “…this beauty could easily pass for a grand cru Burgundy” and gives it a whopping 92 point score you simply have to pay attention, right? How can you ignore a statement like that from one of the world’s greatest critics? Well, you can’t. So we...

To all Best Winers, Seriously, this is one of the ‘sickest’ values in the world of Nebbiolo today. Let’s give you some type of reference. In Burgundy, this wine is the equivalent of an estate like Domaine de la Romanee Conti taking their Richebourg, Romanee St. Vivant, Grands Echezeaux and Echezeaux and bottling it all as villages level Vosne Romanee…in...

To all Best Winers, OMG. That’s my reaction to what’s happening in Napa nowadays, as a fresh swath of $100+ Cabernet wines begin to enter the market. What’s going on up there? What’s in the well water? Don’t they realize how much great wine is out there in the world south of $100? More than ever. The competition is stiffening...

To all Best Winers, Spanna, Boca, Barolo, Valtellina. What do these four wines from Italy’s northern climes all have in common? Nebbiolo! For you hardcore ‘Nebb-heads’ out there today’s offer is a little piece of nirvana. For those of you who are less familiar with northern Italy’s ‘King of Grapes’, consider this a little ‘Nebbiolo 101’, with video included for...

To all Best Winers, Vincent Mulliez was exactly what Bordeaux needed. His acquisitions of Chateau Bolaire in the Bordeaux Superieur appellation and Chateau de Gironville in the Haut Medoc were not earth-shattering events. There were no articles (that we know of) in Wine Spectator, no ‘breaking news’ reports on CNN. Just a very wealthy guy purchasing a couple of middling...