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To all Best Winers, In the California wine world, restaurants rule. A top restaurant group can get darn near anything it wants from a top California winery. And when that restaurant group is Thomas Keller’s, and when the restaurant is his world-famous bistro, Bouchon, it can really get whatever it wants. The Table Cabernet Sauvignon […]

To all Best Winers, Who the heck is Jean Hoefliger? The name might not be a household one to most wine aficionados but he’s a very busy guy, producing some the finest wines in the Napa Valley. After leaving his native Switzerland to pursue a career as a winemaker, Jean immediately found success. After stints […]

To all Best Winers, Last October, Decanter Magazine conducted a comprehensive tasting of over 80 Argentine Malbecs for their annual South American report. Three judges, including Master of Wine Jo Ahearne, tasted each and every one of the wines and came back with some very positive results. Malbec is moving forward, the wines are getting […]

To all Best Winers, There’s only one Terry Leighton, and there’s only one Kalin Cellars, and all wine drinkers should thank their lucky stars for both of them. I was lucky enough to bump into Terry back in the mid-80’s when I was just a young whippersnapper. It was 1987 or thereabouts and the wine […]

To all Best Winers, It’s back! Apparently there were a couple of ‘larger’ stores in the Southern Californian area that, for whatever reason on Earth I have no idea, did not take their allocations of one of the greatest red wine values in the history of mankind. So, being pushy, we got more! The 2010 […]

To all Best Winers, Some of you may know, some of you may not, but there has been a lot of ‘action’ in the wine auction scene of late, and most of it not good. Seems a fellow by the name of Rudy Kurniawan was found guilty of counterfeiting millions of dollars of old Burgundy […]

To all Best Winers, There is absolutely no reason whatsoever you should not buy this wine. (Double negative?) I don’t know if we’ve ever featured a wine where the deck is so stacked for it. This is ridiculous. Where do we start? How about: The 2001 Faustino I Gran Reserva was just bestowed the honor […]

To all Best Winers, It is easy to be enchanted by the beautiful, stylish proprietor of Haut Bergey, la belle Helene Garcin.  When tasting with her we’re constantly wondering if the wines really are that good or is part of it the company we’re keeping. Then, year after year, the scores come. Big scores.  It […]

To all Best Winers, More mind-blowing Riesling. More insane prices. The two estates we’re highlighting today need almost no introduction. The Karthäuserhof Estate is truly unique. From its one-of-a-kind banded label to the fact that all of their fruit comes from one solely-owned estate vineyard, Karthäuserhof is not your typical German winery. Their Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg […]

To all Best Winers, Best Wines isn’t usually what you would call one of those ‘closeout’ websites. We simply look for the Best, coolest wines at the Best possible prices. Which means that when a closeout deal on a serious bottle of wine does come along…it certainly fits within those above-mentioned parameters. This is a […]