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Today we Charbonniere. Yeah, it’s a verb…and a winery. An outstanding winery…

The area around the town of Maury, in the south of France, has multiple sites with old vines planted in the local black schist soils (not unlike the llicorella soils in Priorat to the south). Chateau St. Roch is located near Maury, where superstar vintner/consultant Jean-Marc Lafage grew up and first tended vines. So, when a property there came up

This story never gets old. Sometimes the ‘cult’ of a particular wine doesn’t necessarily start with a ‘score’, sometimes it can start with a simple quote… “…most of us agreed on the top 3 wines, just differed on the order...that said Puech Haut's 2011 Reboussier blew my ass away (brain and palate too) but so did the 2010 Pegau Capo and

Today? The highest-scoring Chilean wine in the history of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. And the price? Silly.

Today’s righteous deal comes from the fine folks at Foley Estates in the Sta. Rita Hills. This is an exciting opportunity for us as wines of this caliber from these types of vineyards, made at this production level, tend to sell out.

Winex Staff Picks for 2020!

The times they are a-changin’. It would be easy to blame it on global warming, but a lot of other things have gone on in this part of the world since the region first started getting attention back in the 1980s. The Santa Ynez Valley has established itself as an important source of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rhone

Scattered Peaks is a super-premium spin on Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from a mix of Napa’s finest vineyards. The wine is elegantly crafted by wine industry veteran Derek Benham and legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Joel Aiken. Joel spent 27-years making the world-famous red wines at Rutherford’s legendary Beaulieu Vineyards, including several of the finest BV Georges de Latour Reserves

We’ll keep the broader narrative short as we have been broadcasting this message for something like three decades. Nobody brings the value ‘drama’ like the Spaniards, and that’s true for every conceivable price level. Where else do you get reserve level wines, with some bottle age, for less money than you would pay for some homogenized domestic corporate

Can you believe it? Thanksgiving this week. Wow. And crazy to think how folks will be sharing it this year. Zoom Thanksgiving with Grandma? Yup, may be. Regardless, it’ll be different. Next year? With the recent vaccine news it looks like things next holiday will be back to ‘normal’, whatever that new normal may be. In the meantime, drink something