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To all Best Winers, So this is Chablis made by the great Bernard Raveneau that sells for $30? Well, kind of. Yes, Bernard Raveneau, grower/winemaker of the most sought-after, in-demand Chardonnays on the planet, is indeed involved in this project he spawned with Kermit Lynch and the Collet family, caretakers of several of Chablis’ finest […]

To all Best Winers, Who was Saxum before they were SAXUM? Who was Linne Calodo before they were LINNE CALODO? I had the pleasure of selling both of those winery’s earliest releases on a retail level back in the days before they got zillion point scores and went ‘mailing list only’. Those were exciting times. […]

To all Best Winers, It's here! Last September we offered up this spectacular cellar-direct deal from La Vieille Cure and its American owners Colin Ferenbach and Peter Sachs. It was an instant sell-out so we called the chateau for more. They obliged, actually selling their final stocks of this terrific aged Bordeaux deal to us. […]

To all Best Winers, It’s the return of The Table! The sommelier’s secret is back, but this time in a completely different incarnation. We know you loved the 2009 Cabernet we sold a few months back. It was an instant sell-out and you guys clamored for more. Sorry, we bought all they had…and sold it […]

To all Best Winers, It looks like the 2011 Douro reds are a ‘thing’. Talk about your smokin’-hot categories! You know a genre is hot when you bring in a huge slug of a wine that you’re planning to send an e-mail on and most of it sells out…before you write the offer. It looks […]

To all Best Winers, 2007 was perhaps the greatest Cotes du Rhone vintage of all time. Although much has been made of the many ‘best-ever’ candidates in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, it was in fact the lesser appellations that benefited from the sunny, picture-perfect 2007 harvest. I remember tasting these wines like it was yesterday.  Every southern Rhone […]

To all Best Winers, Can you keep a secret? Good, because I sure know that we can’t! We’ve just launched a new, exciting feature to our site at Best Wines Online. Top Secret pricing. It’s pricing so good that we can’t share it with the general wine buying public. Only Best Wines customers get to see just […]

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, Usually, the northern Rhone is not synonymous with value. All of those hi-falutin’ Cote Rotie, Hermitage and St. Joseph wines will set you back a pretty penny, especially the good ones. Generally, those patches of real estate are simply too expensive for a small vigneron to de-classify. These guys need to […]

To all Best Winers, He is…the Most Interesting Man in the World… Chaim Gur-Arieh has one heckuva story. C.G. DiArie Vineyards and Winery being just the latest installment of what has been a storied career. After immigrating to Israel from Turkey as a teenager, Chaim served as an officer in an Israeli tank division. That’s […]