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To all Best Winers, One of our biggest all-time sellers is back! The 2000 Neipperg Selection St. Emilion struck gold last July, selling out pretty much in one day. So we called Bordeaux. "Do you have any more?" "Yes, there are 30 cases left at the property." "Sold!" After wading through the current dock strike […]

To all Best Winers, We’re usually more accustomed to seeing ‘library’, ‘chateau’-direct wines from producers in Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Rioja. Not California. The California guys sell everything…or at least try to. But Laurel Glen is different. They’ve always been. The Laurel Glen Winery and Vineyards is for certain one of the finest producers of Cabernet […]

To all Best Winers, Our initial ‘Crozes-out’ was so successful we had to do it again. Anchoring this month’s installment is a wine that was the throw-in on our previous Crozes-Out back in November. It sold out immediately as part of that offer but knew we would get to go back to the well and […]

To all Best Winers, Boy, are we getting pelted with Pinot Noir! Hey, not complaining. As Pinot Noir slowly but surely takes the reins from King Cab in California we’re going to have to have a whole stable of outstanding producers on which we can rely upon. Now, to many people, ‘outstanding’ doesn’t get more […]

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 […]

To all Best Winers, Chateau Cantemerle is one of those 'name' Bordeaux that just keeps delivering. Year in and year out, the wines from this estate remain as consistent as a Swiss watch.  Today we’ve assembled a very cool “then and now”, featuring a pristine, chateau-direct, library version of Cantemerle from one of Bordeaux's top […]

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 […]

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 […]

To all Best Winers, It’s Silver Oak week again! Silver Oak’s heroic Napa Valley bottling was just released this weekend at their winery in Napa and it’s a doozy. We know and understand that 99.99% of the Silver Oak drinking world cannot make it to Napa for the party.  Accordingly, we’ve brought the 2010 Silver Oak […]

To all Best Winers, “These new releases from Wilde Farm build on the success of the 2012’s. In just their second vintage working together, proprietor Loren Grossman and winemaker Pax Mahle have once again crafted a compelling set of wines. At Wilde Farm, Mahle seeks a little more ripeness and overall depth than he does […]