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To all Best Winers, Robert Parker came out today with his 2013 Bordeaux report.  As expected, the scores he posted are the worst we’ve seen since the 1992 vintage.  And while today’s winemaking is truly scientific and state of the art, you unfortunately can't control Mother Nature and what she gives you.  For 2013, the […]

To all Best Winers, It’s a very good thing when a guy like Robert Parker calls your wine a “mini Le Pin”.  Parker dropped that hammer of a quote on the 2005 version of this incredible ‘sleeper’ Bordeaux from Bernard Magrez. This wine is better. So how do you get compared to Pomerol’s cult darling […]

To all Best Winers, What’s there not to love about old-vine Zinfandel? It’s ripe, rambunctious, juicy, pleasure-giving and makes an amazing house red when you don’t feel like bringing out those ‘big gun’ Cabs or Pinot Noirs. It’s also what we call ‘liquid history’, seen as many of California’s oldest, most historic vineyards are indeed […]

To all Best Winers, Have you been ignoring Chilean wine? If you have, that may have to stop. Actually, I know it will have to stop. For all the talk about California vintners ‘pursuing balance’ and Italian guys making orange wines in amphorae, we as a wine-drinking and selling community have been ignoring the one […]

To all Best Winers, These wines have ‘it’. It’s that feeling I get when I taste a wine and there’s another level of something lurking underneath. It’s something I can only call the goosebump factor. I’ve only tasted it in a handful of wines, and only a few from Argentina. Only the most memorable wines […]

To all Best Winers, These wines have ‘it’. It’s that feeling I get when I taste a wine and there’s another level of something lurking underneath. It’s something I can only call the goosebump factor. I’ve only tasted it in a handful of wines, and only a few from Argentina. Only the most memorable wines […]

To all Best Winers, “Domaine Grand Veneur’s Les Champauvins stretches on 34 ha classified in Côtes du Rhône. The plots are located in the northern border of Châteauneuf du Pape, exactly 3 meters outside the appellation.  A small lane of rocks going through the rocky plateau has been decided to be the AOC limit in […]

To all Best Winers, “Domaine Grand Veneur’s Les Champauvins stretches on 34 ha classified in Côtes du Rhône. The plots are located in the northern border of Châteauneuf du Pape, exactly 3 meters outside the appellation.  A small lane of rocks going through the rocky plateau has been decided to be the AOC limit in […]

To all Best Winers, ”Vouette et Sorbee’s Blanc d’Argile remains one of the most beautiful and distinctive wines in Champagne…Bertrand Gautherot crafts gorgeous, handmade wine loaded with personality. The Vouette et Sorbee Champagnes are rich, full-bodied wines built on meticulous vineyard work and a non-interventionalist, Burgundian-inspired approach in the cellar.”  – Antonio Galloni The eagles […]

To all Best Winers, Bordeaux Blanc. We hardly ever see the stuff. When we do, and the price is right, we buy 'hard'. Even then it's usually just a few cases since production is so much smaller for these wines than it is for Red Bordeaux  Thing is, the white wines coming from Bordeaux's Pessac-Leognan […]