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To all Best Winers, The Orange County Fair used to be a big deal in these parts. I fondly remember back in the early 90’s anxiously awaiting the Fair results as a retailer here in the OC. The list would come out and people would flock for cases and cases of the top selections from […]

To all Best Winers, Sometimes in the wine business deals happen.  And quite frankly, we’re occasionally shocked at the price of a great bottle of wine that comes from distributors when they “don’t know”, as we were when offered today’s deal.  Whether it’s bad marketing, a fallout from an importer, whatever the case, we have […]

To all Best Winers, “Simply put, 2010 is the greatest young Barolo vintage I have tasted in 18 years of visiting the region and a lifetime of buying, cellaring and drinking these wines.”- Antonio Galloni The people have spoken. In 2014, the Nebbiolo grape is king. For sure, the hottest category going this year was […]

To all Best Winers, “Daniel Barraud is without question one of the finest growers in all of the Mâconnais, and there is a credible argument to be made that his remarkable consistency vaults him right to the very top of the list.” - Allen Meadows, Burghound “Yet again, I was knocked out by the quality […]

To all Best Winers, Montepulciano. The word confounds and confuses wine lovers everywhere. The problem we have is it’s both a place and a grape in Italy, and they have nothing in common other than they are both, uh, Italian. Montepulciano, the town, is located in eastern Tuscany, near Montalcino (still with me?). There, they […]

To all Best Winers, I guess today’s offer doesn’t need a whole lot of colorful verbiage or in-depth explaining but we’ll gladly hit you with the basics.. Simply put, we’re offering up one of Champagne’s historically brilliant wines at a serious flashback price. I’ve always had a soft spot for Taitt’s Comtes de Champagne. It’s […]

To all Best Winers, I guess today’s offer doesn’t need a whole lot of colorful verbiage or in-depth explaining but we’ll gladly hit you with the basics.. Simply put, we’re offering up one of Champagne’s historically brilliant wines at a serious flashback price. I’ve always had a soft spot for Taitt’s Comtes de Champagne. It’s […]

To all Best Winers, Ok, I’ll be the first to admit that 95 points for a $17 Chilean Chardonnay seems a little…high. But then again, isn’t the whole ‘points’ thing based on what a professional wine critic is tasting, sensing, experiencing at a certain ‘point’ in time? I know I’ve had days where that 95 […]

To all Best Winers, Alright, it happened again. That moment a wine buyer/seller dreams about. That insanely powerful, driving moment of discovery. A goosebump moment, brought on by two wines that, when tasted, immediately transports you forward five years, where the person that made the wine you’re tasting at that point in time, currently unknown […]

To all Best Winers, Carmelo Patti is one of the most respected winemakers in Argentina.  Migrating from Sicily on a small boat when he was just a baby, he would eventually become one of the instrumental figures in raising the level of quality in Mendoza back in the early 1980’s and to this day is […]