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To all Best Winers, While we still have a few remaining 2010 Chateauneuf’s, at some point we’re going to have to ‘call it’ and move on. Nothing lasts forever (except George Hamilton). The 2012’s seem a perfectly fine place to move to. Is the vintage 2010? No, it’s not. But it is fine and fruit-forward […]

To all Best Winers, Hey gang, have you been checking out our video interview series on youtube? If not, you’re doing yourself a wine lover’s dis-service. We’ve had a serious run of the wine world’s best and brightest winemaking stars rolling though the Best Wines studio the last several months. Our latest interview session happens […]

To all Best Winers, Our decades in the wine business have served us well. We’ve been fortunate enough to establish connections and relationships with many influential folks in the wine biz, though we generally don’t make a big deal of it. It’s easy. Treat people like you want to be treated and what goes around […]

To all Best Winers, Ah, memories. Today’s offer takes me back to 2009. That was the last time that Brancaia’s Tre made a wine this good, and demand went through the roof…literally. Wine was stacked floor to ceiling, and I had a hard time keeping it in stock. I would buy 50 cases, I’d sell […]

To all Best Winers, Looks like I’ve been sleeping under a rock. Hey, it’s hard enough keeping track of one area of the wine world but we here at Best Wines are excellent multi-taskers, so we tend to have our head on a swivel, monitoring the goings-on of multiple wine regions simultaneously in this information […]

To all Best Winers, Have we ever had the Coombsville conversation? No? Good, let’s have it. Some of you may know that as of 2011, Coombsville is Napa’s newest A.V.A. and an increasingly popular area for fans of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. Now the thing that makes Coombsville Coombsville is really all of the things […]

To all Best Winers, The red-headed stepchild no longer. Let’s be honest. The Gigondas appellation, just east of the more famous Chateauneuf du Pape region, has always been ‘that other region’ in the southern Rhone since it was first granted its own appellation status back in 1971. There were a couple reasons. First, it was […]

To all Best Winers, Just when we thought they couldn’t do any better… Last September we sold a huge chunk of Monsanto’s 2009 Riserva Chianti Classico, heralding it as one of the finest sub-$20 Chianti wines in the market, and who could argue with that 93 point score, making it, at the time, the highest-scoring, […]

To all Best Winers, “These are now among the more exciting wines being made in Napa Valley!” – Robert Parker, and his exclamation point.   How refreshing to be able to feature a brand with that kind of endorsement that doesn’t cost a jillion dollars a bottle. But I’m sure, as with all things ‘Napa’, these good times will not last for […]

To all Best Winers, It pays to dig. Like old James Garner in the Rockford Files, when you dig too far you get beat up once in a while. But other times, when you dig enough, you come up with hidden gems like this quietly special wine. The Rothschilds don’t make a big deal of […]