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To all Best Winers, Pizza, pasta, rejoice! You no longer have to ‘pair up’ with lousy bottles of cheap Chianti, tank farm ‘Tuscan’ wine and generally lousy ‘by the glass’ Italian red wines generated to maximize dollars and minimize flavor. No. Those days are done. Thanks to Bibi Graetz. Bibi is an actual person. His […]

To all Best Winers, Are you kids on ‘the Twitter’? You should be. It’s like the inter-web, but faster and more ‘to the point’ for us folks with the mega-short attention spans. When you’re not on ‘the Twitter’ you miss little nuggets like this: That’s right, the world’s greatest and most powerful wine critic just […]

To all Best Winers, I love my job. I don’t know if it’s just me but the recent run of offers we’ve been sending out has been the hottest streak of ‘cool stuff’ that I can recall in, like, ever. And today it gets ‘cooler’. We’re lucky that the Farinetti family may have ‘missed one’. […]

To all Best Winers, Olabarri and Olagosa. Ever heard of ‘em? That’s OK, us neither. We believe this is the first time in the U.S. for both of them. In truth it sounds more like a magic act than two of the coolest ‘new’ (at least around here) faces from Rioja. In truth, the only […]

To all Best Winers, We’re quenching America’s thirst for tasty white wines, one Saturday at a time… It seems this whole ‘Saturday whites’ thing has caught on. We’ve had sellouts most every week and this week may prove to be no exception. We’re going back to Riesling again. But not just any Riesling, this is […]

To all Best Winers, Fabio did it again. First off, if you were one of the lucky few that scored a few bottles of the 2010 Poggio Scalette Il Carbonaione we sent out earlier this week, congrats. But we know many of you missed out on that wine and we felt bad. So we went […]

To all Best Winers, First, be sure to watch today’s video. Then start reading... Now, I may not be in the candy business, but I can tell you this is one heckuva sweet deal! (Ugh) C’mon, its Halloween. Loosen up a little bit and treat yourself to one of the finest dessert wine deals you’ve […]

To all Best Winers, Average vine age of 37 years. Tiny yields of 30 hl/ha. Aging sur lies in 50% new and 50% one year old barrels from Taransaud and Darnajou. Stephane Derenoncourt consulting. 92 points Wine Advocate. 91-94 point barrel score Wine Spectator. Sound like an expensive bottle of wine? We thought so.  Those […]

To all Best Winers, I knew this would eventually happen. I actually knew it back in 1996 when I tasted the first vintage of master winemaker Vittorio Fiore’s pure Sangiovese, Il Carbonaione. It was the 1992. A dreadful year in Tuscany. His wine was sensational. It was the top wine of that horrible, horrible year. […]