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Good times in Tuscany over the last couple of years as we have enjoyed rolling out selections from their back-to-back exceptional vintages (2015 and 2016). Each vintage has its own distinct profile, and they have afforded the top producers the opportunity to make top notch wine at all levels. We suspect the folks at Mazzei have probably seen

The story of Andretta begins in 1994 when Dr. Rosalba Vitanza and her husband Guido Andretta went for a romantic weekend in Montalcino in the province of Siena. They were the guest of a friend, a fellow producer, who told them he was trying to sell his property in Montalcino to buy a bigger place also in the area.

While there is little to like about a pandemic, there have been a few positives to come out of it. One of them is to get to know more of our ‘neighbors’ in the north Coast. Take away the restaurants and seriously alter how markets operate, and the game changes dramatically. Perhaps, coincidentally, we have met more

They say money can’t buy you love. But it can buy you a lot of great vineyard land in the still remote part of French Catalonia also known as the Roussillon. This ‘last frontier’ is home to old vines, unique terroir, and remarkably sane (one might even say ‘cheap’) prices for vineyard land. Dave Phinney, with plenty

After an IMMEDIATE sell-out our first time around with this 100-pointer we recently received our second shipment of this VERY in-demand wine. Back on January 24th, James Suckling published an article revealing not just his Wine of the Week, or Wine of the Year, but Wine of the DECADE. He wrote, "For the last 10 years, vintage after

The story here starts with one guy, Dan Kravitz, who founded a wine company called Hand Picked Selections back in 1985. Like a lot of folks who want to get into the importing game, he started with Bordeaux. But his keen shopping sense led him to recognize that there was tremendously better value to be found further south.

It’s good to finally be ‘validated’! We’ve told the story of this wine before, a special patch of vineyard in the hallowed Oakville appellation, next door to Opus One, that Nick Goldschmidt sources to produce one of the finest Cabernet Sauvignon values on the planet.

When we go to Bordeaux, we taste hundreds of wines. But our mission is to not only taste the ‘fahncy’ wines but to also taste the hundreds of petits chateaux to find wines that are of great value. Today’s offer exemplifies just that. A wine that hits all the right notes and delivers far above its humble

We’ve sold out of the previous three vintages of this remarkable Sauvignon blanc value in a single day. And I think its gonna happen again. This 2019 is STUNNING.

So, as we’re wont to do on occasion, we put Wine Spectator’s Advanced Search technology to the test the other day. We input a crazy parameter. Give us a Chardonnay that scored at least 94 points, from anywhere in the world (we’re not picky), that we could sell for under $30. Why not, right? It’s a pipe dream with how