February 2015

To all Best Winers, As the headline reads above, this isn’t going to be the toughest call you’ll have to make today. Just wondering something, are you happy or bummed out if you’re the Baron de Rothschild and you’re $50 bottle of Chilean Cabernet receives the same score, in the same vintage, from the same critic, and sells for less...

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To all Best Winers, Burgundy is one screwed up place. Case in point? Poor Raymond Dupont-Fahn. The guy owns a piece of dirt next to one of the greatest Chardonnay vineyards in the world, but apparently it’s the wrong dirt. Raymond comes from a quality wine background, both of his parents being wine dorks. Back in the 70’s, his father...

To all Best Winers, Did you know that the Pio Cesare winery has been importing wine into the United States for over 80 years? I think they were selling us Piedmontese wine here in Amurca before just about anyone else! That’s exactly what makes Pio Cesare such a quietly dynamic winery. From the outside you’d think they were ‘old school’...

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.h4 { /*@editable*/ color: #9e1f63; display: block; /*@editable*/ font-family: Arial; /*@editable*/ font-size: 16px; /*@editable*/ font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0%; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0%; margin-left: 0; /*@editable*/ text-align: left; } To all Best Winers,   Thanks 2010! Yes, we have the 2010 vintage in Brunello to thank for this fabulous offer on Le Potazzine’s…2008. Wait, what? Why? Elementary. If you’re a supplier...

.h4 { /*@editable*/ color: #9e1f63; display: block; /*@editable*/ font-family: Arial; /*@editable*/ font-size: 16px; /*@editable*/ font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0%; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0%; margin-left: 0; /*@editable*/ text-align: left; } To all Best Winers, Like a good Neighbor, Vega Sicilia is there. And Spain’s greatest winemaker is your ‘broker’! You may recall the story we’ve told in the past about Finca Villacreces...