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To all Best Winers, One of the most thrilling ‘new’ discoveries in white Burgundy has just arrived at Best Wines. But let us tell you why this wine thrills. First, let’s talk Chablis. Chablis is the world’s first ‘naked’ Chardonnay. I know, I know, there are about a hundred ‘inox’, ‘unwooded’ and ‘steel’ Chardonnays from […]

To all Best Winers, Chianti Classico just isn’t the same any more, which is a good thing! The latest releases we’re seeing today from Chianti’s vanguard producers are the finest we’ve ever tasted, hands down. These are pure, elegant Sangiovese wines that have a fantastic sense of place, plenty of fruit and exquisite balance, all […]

To all Best Winers, Sometimes we just have to have something full-throttle, juicy, round, lush. Not every wine can be this ponderous thing. Sure it's fun to think about wine every once and a while, but gosh darn-it we like to drink it more! And speaking of round, juicy, lush wines, today’s offer gets no […]

To all Best Winers, Besllum is Catalan for ‘a ray of bright light coming through a small opening in a dark background’. Montsant, roughly translated, means ‘holy mountain’.  When I tasted this wine I immediately understood where both of those names came from. Besllum is indeed a ray of light from a holy mountain. Yes, […]

To all Best Winers, Everything old is new again. Cliché, yes, but true. Back around the turn of the millennium, when everyone was planting their Pinot Noir vineyards, the sexy choice among folks putting sticks in the ground was what are commonly referred to as the Dijon Clones of Pinot Noir. If you’ve ever heard […]

To all Best Winers, We here at Best Wines are generally not doom-sayers. We’re happy people, silver lining, glass half full types. But we must be honest and say that the 2013 Rosé wines from France have thus far, with a few exceptions, been dreadful. Flat, insipid, just kind of ‘blah’ wines coming from the […]

To all Best Winers, OK, any guess as to what is the hottest category in the world of fine wine right now? I think you could probably have about 20 whacks at it before you got close, unless you’re truly ‘down’ with all the hipsters in the wine world. So, I’m going to give you […]

To all Best Winers, “I tasted the 2012s over a 7 week period and by the end of it they reminded me of the 1985s as they’re fleshy, balanced, delicious and should drink well both young and old.  Those readers that have been collecting for a while may remember that the 1985s were largely dismissed […]

To all Best Winers, Through extensive research (okay, Wikipedia), I found out a Marqués Is not a Duke, nor is he a Count. A Marqués is somewhere in the middle. Apparently, these in-the-middle guys pretty much lucked out when it came to the ‘bequeathed Rioja vineyard land sweepstakes’. Marques de Murrieta and Marques de Caceres […]

To all Best Winers, A recent stroll down the aisles chez Best Wines turned up some “Whoa there!” moments in our Cab section. Actually I found a quartet of awesomeness of which we had a few bits and pieces left to share. I love Napa Cabernet, it’s just that most of the time I can’t […]