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To all Best Winers, What does a Swedish guy have to do with one of the great ‘insider’ premium Burgundy buys of the year? Plenty. Johan Bjorklund’s story is a good one. Björklund trained as a chef in his hometown of Stockholm and went to Paris in 1980 to cook for the Swedish ambassador. A […]

To all Best Winers, This is refreshing! But not like ‘mountain spring’ refreshing, I’m talking more about the price of this ‘sick’ bargain red from Joey Tensley. Joey seems to have his head screwed on straight. I get the feeling the man is actually a consumer of fine wine from around the world because his […]

To all Best Winers, Today we’re offering the Romanee Conti of Germany. The Williams-Selyem of Germany. How’s that for esoteric? Some explaining. Weingut Meyer-Näkel is the greatest producer of Pinot Noir in Germany. How’s that?  In 2004, owner/proprietor Werner Näkel was chosen Winemaker of the Year by the famous French restaurant guide, Gault-Millau.  In 2008 […]

To all Best Winers, There’s some outstanding values among the 2010 Bordeaux if you know where to look. But you have to want to look. And you have to want to look hard. I’m right there with you. I know 2010 is not a ‘value’ vintage. It is an outstanding vintage, certainly one of the […]

To all Best Winers, I love La Ginestraia’s Pigato. And it loves me. It goes everywhere with me. With seafood, with Asian cuisines, with lighter pasta dishes, with cured meats. I was hoping they would make it so I could fit a bottle on the end of my keychain but the winery hasn’t returned any […]

To all Best Winers, Holy 1940’s, Batman! These wines are so unique, so hot, so cool, so unbelievable, there is no possible way you can ignore them. Best Wines is offering, on Pre-Arrival now, two of the greatest dessert wines ever made. And they’re over 60 years old. And they’re spectacular.  And they’re 100 and […]

To all Best Winers, “Clinet has been on a hot streak lately and the 2009 appears to be the greatest wine ever made at the estate, surpassing even the late Jean-Michel Arcaute’s monumental 1989. 100 points.” – Robert Parker Hmm, have you ever imagined what the barrels that didn’t make the cut from one of […]

To all Best Winers, One of the biggest thrills I get in the wine business is when a wine tastes better than even my lofty expectations would hope. For it to happen once a month is special. For it to happen three times in 10 minutes? Darn near impossible. Until last week. That’s when I […]

To all Best Winers, It’s OK to be picky with our $10 wines, right? You may notice we don’t have a TON of $10 wines in our catalog. Well, that’s because we’re extremely picky. See, we don’t think it’s just OK that wine tastes like it came from a ‘tank farm’ because it’s ONLY $10. […]

To all Best Winers, It’s not often an opportunity like this comes along! I’ve lovingly sold the wines of d’Arenberg here in America since the 1993 vintage, a claim that I don’t believe many folks could make. I’ve tasted every vintage of their releases since then, both here and at the family’s winery in the […]