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To all Best Winers, Selling out of a wine is love/hate relationship for us. On one side of the coin, we love it because we sold all of it! Always a good thing in this business, actually selling stuff. On the other side, we don’t have any more. That’s no fun, and we probably could […]

To all Best Winers, Opportunity knocked and we’re opening the door! We recently purchased a special offer from Europe on one of the greatest Chateauneuf du Pape’s ever made, the 2010 Domaine Pegau Cuvée Reservée. This is a spectacular chance to cash in on one of Chateauneuf’s finest vintages ever, at early-in-the-game prices. Pegau proprietor […]

To all Best Winers, Back before the North Coast of California would become what it is today, a heavily direct-to-consumer oriented business, I used to make road trips up to Sonoma to check out who was new, what was hot, search for new labels. Y’know, do my job. One year I came back with a […]

To all Best Winers, "La Fleur Morange Mathilde (100% Merlot) is bottled early in order to give consumers a joyous, fruit-driven, hedonistic wine with a whopping 14.5% natural alcohol. A sleeper of the vintage, it offers copious notes of blueberry confiture interwoven with kirsch, spring flowers and subtle oak. This medium to full-bodied, full-throttle, delicious, […]

To all Best Winers, So I went to this tasting last year called In Pursuit of Balance. This California movement is all the rage with the sommeliers right now as a bunch of wine types are having an allergic reaction to wines that are ‘over the top’, ‘ponderous’ and/or too high in alcohol for their […]

To all Best Winers, Summer’s coming! I don’t know about you but I love drinking Beaujolais during the summer. A little chill on it, a plate of grilled veggies, maybe some pork tenderloin or a chicken paillard and bam, there you go, the perfect summertime meal. We are nearing the end of the line on […]

To all Best Winers, I guess you learn a thing or two when you spend 15 years working at Argentina’s greatest winery. TintoNegro was born of the long time friendship and professional collaboration of Alejandro Sejanovich and Jeff Mausbach, colleagues at Bodega Catena Zapata for those 15 years. As Wine Education Director for Catena, Jeff travelled the world preaching the gospel of […]

To all Best Winers, Some things come in a surprising way…   So, I am at a tasting of 2011 Bordeaux barrel samples at one of the largest negocients in Bordeaux. Things are moving along, the 2011’s are well made and there are some highlights; but after the success of the 2010 vintage, it was difficult […]

To all Best Winers, Dude! The Roussillon rocks! Totally! Jeb is now getting the luxury of finding that out as he becomes the new full time Languedoc and Roussillon correspondent for the Wine Advocate. Hey, we've always known that France's finest value offerings outside of the occasional killer Cotes du Rhone are generally pulled from […]

To all Best Winers, Hey, 'scores' happen.  We can try to take some kind of 'merchant high road' and say we don't care about scores but we'd be lying. They do play into what we do and do feature on our daily offers. They are a factor, but they are not THE factor. A wine […]