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To all Best Winers, I see and taste a lot of wines every year. Thousands of them. Between that and what I devour from the written page, I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on what’s out there in the market. I’m seldom surprised by a wine that walks through the door considering I’ve […]

To all Best Winers, I have to be honest, we were really pleased when Wine Spectator anointed the 2004 Cune Imperial Gran Reserva Rioja their Wine of the Year, though we didn’t have a bottle to sell. It was a true breakout moment on a national scale for a genre of wine that had largely […]

To all Best Winers, Alright, this is one of those wines. One of those wines that super cool people bust out at tastings and win the day. One of those wines that the hippest sommelier busts out when he has his hip sommelier friends over and they all go batty because it tastes like (insert […]

To all Best Winers, Sparkling Wine (as it has to now be technically referred to as since the Champenoise decided enough was enough with the whole California Champagne thing) in California has come a looooong way just in the last decade. A vertical tasting of Domaine Carnero’s Le Reve bottling I attended about a year […]

To all Best Winers, What do you get when you combine the hillside vineyards of Priorat, with a passionate committed group of Belgians, the Rhone valley’s top negociant, one of America’s most passionate, quality-driven importers and the Rhone Valley’s greatest winemaking consultant? One of the best sub-$20 bottles of wine in the world. Black Slate […]

To all Best Winers, Now this is a pleasant surprise! Whenever I go to Germany on business one of the real treats is getting to taste the older wines from some of these classic Riesling producers.  So when I recently had the chance to taste something from Mosel master Max. Ferdinand Richter’s library, I was […]

To all Best Winers, Another year, another Wine Spectator Top 100 list. Y’know, when you think about it, it’s pretty cool for the winery’s that made it onto the Top 100, even if they are #94. How many wines doe the Spectator review in a year? Like, 100,000,000? It is certainly a 200% honor to […]

To all Best Winers, Hey, you love wine, right? Well doesn't it make sense to give something that you love? Wine is an awesome gift. It's cool, fun, tastes good, sophisticated. Our Holiday Gift Giving guide is full of cool, fun, good tasting, sophisticated wines, at some very attractive prices. We don't play the 'buy […]

To all Best Winers, “Giddy” Oregon winemakers headed for epic 2012 vintage  “Storybook weather…the Pinots are not fruit bombs. They have a nice balance. It’s hard to imagine improvements.” “All in all 2012 will be remembered as a classic Oregon vintage with great weather at harvest and low yields. The fruit was ripe, sound and […]

To all Best Winers, How’s this for a bold statement? Galardi’s Terra di Lavoro is the greatest wine produced in southern Italy. Boom. There, I said it. Now, when I’m talking south, I’m talking south of Rome. That leaves Tuscany in the ‘north’ as well as a nice chunk of Umbria and Lazio. Still, ‘southern […]