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To all Best Winers, Boy, lots to cover on this offer, so stay with me! First, let’s talk Mark Tarlov. If the name isn’t familiar to you I’m sure his wines are. He’s a pretty low profile dude that makes high profile juice! You may remember some of the wines from the first project he […]

To all Best Winers, Drinking wine is not a crime. It’s a pleasure. A joy. Like laughing, or getting pushed on a swing. Just go with it. Sometimes the less we think, the better. I know once in while all I want to do is haul off and crack a bottle of something red, something […]

To all Best Winers, It’s still summertime and for some reason incredible wines at truly knee-weakening prices are crossing our desks as fast as we can taste them. This almost never happens during this traditionally slower time of year. In spite of the drought here in SoCal it’s raining great wine. The other day this […]

To all Best Winers, Talk about your nice ‘upgrades’. This is like going from ‘business’ to ‘first’…on your own jet! Guigal’s 2010 Cote Rotie Ampuis was reviewed as 94-96 point wine from barrel by both jeb Dunnuck and Robert Parker. Obviously, things changed. We opened the most recent Wine Advocate and what did we find? […]

To all Best Winers, Who says Californian can’t do ‘bang for the buck’? Of course it can. The problem is, most of California doesn’t want to do bang for the buck. Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, those ritzier areas of the Central Coast, all these places have their sights set much, much higher than ‘wine for the […]

To all Best Winers, I first met Cantina del Pino winemaker/owner Renato Vacca through a mutual friend in Piedmont. Renato was essentially our tour guide while we were there, helping us navigate the visits to places like Bruno Giacosa and Giuseppe Mascarello where our pigeon Italian wouldn’t exactly get it done, if you catch my […]

To all Best Winers, “... the results speak for themselves and there are few wines in the world I’d rather drink.”- Jeb Dunnuck, in reference to Clos St. Jean, Wine Advocate #209 Is any winery on the planet hotter than Clos St. Jean? OK, maybe Sine Qua Non. But their wines are selling for 4-5 […]

To all Best Winers, “Enrico Scavino and his daughters Elisa and Enrica stand out from their peers for their never-ending search for quality.” – Antonio Galloni The “search” is over. Quality found! The 2010 Barolo wines from Enrico Scavino are certainly some of the finest he’s ever produced, which is saying a lot when you […]

To all Best Winers, This wine rocks! Literally… Watch our interview with DEVO’s Jerry Casale, rock star-turned-wine guy, and get the skinny from the man himself about his exciting new wine project, the 50 x 50. The Cliff Notes: Brand new, limited production Pinot Noir and Rosé produced by Gerald Casale, a founding member of […]

To all Best Winers, On Monday’s Grand Veneur Champauvins offer we talked a little about location and how it relates to wine. How random borders (rocks, trees, etc.) can make all the difference between $20 and $50 a bottle. You have to draw the line somewhere, right? Even if it may not make sense. Speaking […]