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To all Best Winers, The art of blending. It’s becoming a lost one. The push here in America towards heavily varietal wines is leaving less and less room for wines that are made out of…stuff. But ‘stuff’ can rock! ‘Stuff’ can exude character, deliver interesting flavors and, because it’s ‘stuff’, it’s usually not real expensive. […]

To all Best Winers, Nowadays one usually doesn’t think of most ‘Super-Tuscans’ as cutting edge, right? But when Vittorio Frescobaldi and Robert Mondavi started their Luce project back in 1993 they were taking a huge risk. Just as Mondavi had done in Western Australia (helping the Horgan family establish Leeuwin Estate) and just as he […]

To all Best Winers, We’re at it again. Another Domaine-direct, aged Burgundy deal has come up aces. Or should we say, Volnay-ces? Or is it…Volnaycious? Regardless, this last batch of aged Burgundy deliciousness we just received from Yvon Clerget is something else, for a few reasons. First, let’s talk about Yvon Clerget. Domaine Clerget eschews […]

To all Best Winers, Cabernet Franc. What a grape, right? I mean, seriously, what does this grape not do well? It can produce Napa Valley blockbusters (think Dalla Valle’s Maya or World’s End Against the Wind) just as easily as an elegant Napa Valley-based Loire Valley-taste-alike (those beautiful Lang & Reed wines). It can produce […]

To all Best Winers, The new Pruno is Here! The new Pruno is Here! I feel like I should be clanging a bell and screaming at the top of my lungs as I write this. But there’s only a few cases so I can’t get too excited, can I? Sure I can. The follow-up to […]

To all Best Winers, This wine was a constant source of consternation for years. I can’t tell you how many times customers of ours would come back from a trip to Bordeaux, having visited all the top chateaux, but with only one wine on their mind. Pauillac de Chateau Latour. “How can I get some? […]

To all Best Winers, Only question here is, why the heck didn’t this wine happen sooner? Let’s go over the litany of reasons why there should be great white wine made in Sauternes: Miles and miles of old vine Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc Multiple soil types that allow for blending the perfect combination of freshness […]

To all Best Winers, When it came time to belly up to the Chateau de la Negly booth at Vinisud last year we were hoping to see some fireworks.  Of course we were going to get a tasting (drinking?) of the famed La Porte du Ciel from this estate as well as Jeffrey Davies’ cult […]

To all Best Winers, That is a bold statement right there. I don’t believe this is something that Bob Parker would say unless he absolutely meant it. And you know what? He may very well be right. The 2008 Hidden Ridge was an absolute gem. That wine blew us away for the money. It was […]

To all Best Winers, When I was first getting into wine, the Bordeaux bug hit me with a passion. However, like many young, up and coming wine lovers, I had very little extra cash to go out there and buy names like Lafite, Mouton, Pichon, Lynch Bages or heck, even Gloria.  With the funds I […]