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To all Best Winers, A great deal just got a whole lot better. We blew through a bunch of the outstanding 2007 Monteti Rosso from Tuscany a few months back. You may remember the wine, heck, you probably bought some. We went back to get more 2007 but they were out. As the mother of […]

To all Best Winers, Cabernet and Shiraz, two great tastes that taste great together! I could explain the whole history of Australia’s love affair of blending Cabernet and Shiraz but why not have the guys that perfected this blend do it themselves? Here’s how the Yalumba folks see it: “In a wine market largely obsessed […]

To all Best Winers, Napa still has its ‘cutting edge’ and, occasionally, that edge can cut pretty deep. How’s this for an angle? Today we are selling an unbelievably good 95 point Napa Valley Cabernet form one of Napa’s hottest young winemakers sourcing fruit from one of the hottest new vineyards made famous by another […]

To all Best Winers, Its Bierzo time, baby! These wines produced from the ancient, high-desert slopes of Spain’s Bierzo region keep getting better and better as the new wave of producers that have descended upon the area keep learning more and more about just what makes this unique, exciting grape variety tick. What started off […]

To all Best Winers, “It’s so hard, to say good-bye, to yesterday…” -  Boyz II Men Big changes are afoot at one of the premier estates in the Rhone Valley. Proprietors Sébastien Vincenti and Nanou Barthélemy are ‘scaling down’, reducing the number of wines produced at the domaine and focusing their product line while reconfiguring […]

To all Best Winers, Turbine. Funny name for a white wine. But hey, it’s what’s in the bottle, right? And just how does that juice get into the bottle in pristine fashion? How do those perfectly farmed grapes find their way through a process where, theoretically, real flavor can only be taken away, never added? […]

To all Best Winers, In the hierarchy of the world’s most collectable wines, the name Mouton Rothschild is at or near the top.  And in the great vintages of Bordeaux’s past, this is one of the most sought after. Robert Parker recently tasted a vertical of Mouton Rothschild from 2003 to 2012 and to ours […]

To all Best Winers, Uh-Oh. Look what Bob found. One of California’s most under-the-radar producers is now officially a ‘blip’ on Robert Parker’s screen. A serious ‘blip’. Fort Ross proprietors Lester and Linda Schwartz came to California from their native South Africa back in the late 80’s. They planted their first Pinot Noir and Chardonnay […]

To all Best Winers, Talk about your ‘Sleepers’! If you’ve ever read Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, you’ll notice he uses this term quite often when discussing certain wines from Bordeaux that fit a certain criteria. That criteria is a wine at a really fair price, that completely over delivers for that money. It’s also usually a wine that […]

To all Best Winers, Indian spice, confiture de fraise (French for ‘strawberry jam’, sounds fancier, right?), cranberry, sweet herb, this wine is redolent (fancy word day for me) with so much good stuff. So how did we end up here? Well, the story starts over a year ago, with our previous, instant sell-out closeout offer […]