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To all Best Winers, Andrea Bosco. Remember the name. This guy has skills. Mad, crazy Nebbiolo skills. I’ve been following his path for a number of years and would get a little more excited each year as Andrea’s talents unfolded, as we slowly watched him learn his craft, watched him grow as a winemaker. Well, […]

To all Best Winers, “…these are some of the richest and most textured wines being made anywhere in the world.” – Antonio Galloni “Dal Forno’s wines throw so much at you at once, in machine-gun rapid-fire succession, you need extra time to recover from the whiplash, gather your thoughts and assess them correctly. They are […]

To all Best Winers, Here’s the deal. For years there has been one producer in the Burgundy commune of Givry that was acknowledged as the ‘top dog’, the best, the one Givry you needed in your cellar. His name is Joblot, and his wines are very good. Francois Lumpp changed that. There’s a new sheriff […]

To all Best Winers, What a vintage. Y’know, it’s only after the smoke clears that we in the wine business can properly determine just how great or not-so-great certain vintages may be. Sometimes the hype is justified, other times we settle in, take a look at a supposedly great body of work and go, “meh.” […]

To all Best Winers, “The 2007 Imperial Gran Reserva is again a great wine in the making.” – Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate What do you do if you’re suddenly the hottest Spanish wine producer in America right now after your 2004 Imperial Gran Reserva was voted Wine of the Year by Wine Spectator? I […]

To all Best Winers, On Saturday we sent you a compelling e-mail offer on a wine from a winemaker, Chris Ringland, who had managed to craft six different 100 point Wine Advocate wines over the course of his career. Well, today we did you one better. Pierre Seillan, as far as we can tell, has […]

To all Best Winers, Ah, nothing like watching the kids grow up. I had the pleasure of getting in on the ‘ground floor’ of this now-legend winemaking operation back in the difficult 2002 vintage. I remember thinking that the partners, Jorge Ordoñez, Dan Philips and Chris Ringland, though a formidable line-up, were crazy to start […]

To all Best Winers, Amidst the doldrums of the lackluster 2013 Bordeaux futures campaign, we’ve just received a strong reminder of why we love, drink and collect Bordeaux... I remember when the 2000 La Croix du Casse first arrived on our shores over twelve years ago. I was excited to think I could actually afford […]

To all Best Winers, The year was 2000. I had already booked my ticket to attend the annual Z.A.P. (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) Tasting in San Francisco, even though I already knew the vintage being featured, 1998, was perhaps the weakest Zinfandel vintage since 1990, the year in which Zinfandel began to enjoy its latest […]

To all Best Winers, The 2012 Red Burgundies are starting to arrive! The vintage is, in many appellations, outstanding, and a true miracle considering the conditions with which vignerons were faced. Outside of locusts and frogs, Mother Nature threw everything but the kitchen sink at the fine farmers of Burgundy in 2012, but somehow, some […]