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To all Best Winers, So, what if one of the greatest producers of the renowned, full-bodied Amarone wines in Italy suddenly decided to start up a winery in Tuscany. How do you think the wines would taste? Like Amarone? Well, kind of. Like a Chianti or some kind of Super-Tuscan thing? Well, kind of. Two […]

To all Best Winers, You’ve come a long way, baby! We remember when Peter Sisseck’s Pingus wines first walked through our doors in the late-90’s and immediately captured our imaginations and palates. Basically, Peter was doing stuff in the Ribera del Duero that no one had done before, with his use of oak, innovative fermentation […]

To all Best Winers, Dude. The Roussillon rocks. Totally. Wine Advocate’s Jeb Dunnuck is now getting the luxury of finding that out as he becomes the new full time Languedoc and Roussillon correspondent for the Wine Advocate. Hey, we've always known that France's finest value offerings outside of the occasional killer Cotes du Rhone are […]

To all Best Winers, Welcome again, everyone, to the new Wine Exchange. This week will be chock full of compelling offers in the Winex tradition, but with a little extra ‘sizzle’ to them to mark the event. So today, we’re rolling out some serious Napa Valley royalty. You want Napa Valley Cabernet, from a top […]

To all Best Winers, Our Aussie wine-loving friend is back, with another offering which, for us, defines the pinnacle of McLaren Vale Shiraz. Kay Brothers Winery can trace their roots all the way back to the foundation of their winery back in 1890. That right there makes them the oldest family-owned winery in McLaren Vale. […]

To all Best Winers,   I must say, this one as a little bit shocking.   Now granted, James Suckling’s on-the-ground correspondent, Nick Stock, has had more experience with the Pinot Noirs of New Zealand then just about anyone else.   But wow, these scores were huge. What was that all about? The numbers were […]

To all Best Winers, Bibi Graetz is an actual person with a really cool name. He was (is) an artist. His gorgeous paintings grace the labels of his wines. A few years back he decided to become a winemaker since his parents owned, like, a castle and a bunch of really old Sangiovese vines. Turns […]

To all Best Winers,   St. Innocent was and still is the hippest Oregon Pinot Noir on the street.   Every time I’d hunker down with a bunch of wine dorks, the inevitable Oregon Pinot Nor selection among these groups of palates that knew a lot about wine, was St. Innocent.   It was almost […]

To all Best Winers,     Pierre Seillan, as far as we can tell, has quietly crafted seven 100 point Wine Advocate wines under the Verité label since 1998, with a potential five more perfect wines in 2012 and 2013 waiting in the wings. That just may make him the record-holder (we think Helen Turley […]

To all Best Winers, This is more of a general announcement. No tasting notes today as there simply isn’t enough of this stuff to be tasted! Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey is now officially one of the ‘anointed ones’ in Burgundy. His name is bandied about in the same breath as your Coche-Dury’s, your Raveneau’s, and your Comte […]