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To all Best Winers, Rock. Star. Wait, let me clarify. Formerly a Rock. Star. Manager. Now a Rock. Star. Winemaker. That’s Charles Smith. The first time I met Charles was a little over a decade ago at his converted barn/winery outside Walla Walla. It was our first stop of the morning. We were frankly hung […]

To all Best Winers, If you can’t afford Lafite-Rothschild (few can) or even their second wine, Carruades de Lafite, you still have Duhart Milon, which has become a profound wine over the last 5-7 years due to the extensive amount of attention and investment the Rothschilds have pumped into this estate. This blend of 73% […]

To all Best Winers, This is a truly unique offer. Sure, we get library wines all the time from places like Rioja and Bordeaux, areas where there’s a history of holding ‘stuff’ back to release at a later date. They of course do this for a reason, they know their wines are going to taste […]

To all Best Winers, How awesome is this? The instant sell-out, 97 point Kumeu River Mate’s Vineyard Chardonnay is back again for a limited engagement. Very limited. For a refresher, here’s the prose (and video) from our initial offer in October: When the topic of the Greatest Chardonnay on the Planet comes up what area […]

To all Best Winers, You learn something new in this business every day. Who knew that one of California’s pioneering vineyards was still pumping out incredible ‘juice’? Who knew that the winemaker behind that ‘juice’ helped produce many of Sonoma’s finest Cabernet Sauvignons…for two decades? I sure didn’t. But that’s why we do this. And, […]

To all Best Winers, Visiting Jumilla (who-me-ya) for the first time back a decade or so ago was one of the coolest wine experiences I’ve ever had. The place is a trip. It’s the desert. No rain, and these incredible, brilliant white and/or red sandy, chalky soils that the sun just bounces off of. If […]

To all Best Winers, Surpassing expectations. It’s incredibly tough to do under normal conditions. But imagine the poor folks at Maipe. Imagine having produced arguably the greatest Cabernet Sauvignon value of all time the year before. Imagine producing a wine of which Robert Parker declared, “For $15.00, it is impossible to find a Cabernet Sauvignon […]

To all Best Winers, I’ve only been witness to the last four vintages from this exciting, young producer but it is obvious La Ferme du Mont’s Stéphane Vedeau is clearly on to something. He’s quickly become one of the top producers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, an area of France that is already positively littered with all-stars. Granted, […]

To all Best Winers, Margaux... Bordeaux's largest appellation known for its elegant, sensuous, refined and perfumed wines. Even though Margaux is technically the warmest classified area in the Medoc and receives the least amount of rainfall, Cabernet Sauvignon somehow thrives there.   What makes these wines so distinctive is their violet, floral, truffle, cedar, black […]

To all Best Winers, There’s good Chardonnay, there’s great Chardonnay and then there’s frigging great Chardonnay. Today we’re talkin’ frigging great Chardonnay…and it’s from Argentina. No! Don’t stop reading! I dare you to continue on, to learn the story, to fall in love with two of the greatest Chardonnays produced in the new world. Of […]