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To all Best Winers, The gang at Jonata, one of the Central Coast’s premier boutique wineries, have a big problem on their hands. Their second wines are too good. We knew there was no way in heck these wines from their Paring label could be ‘leftovers’. They’re just too…frigging…good. Something was ‘up’. So we sent […]

To all Best Winers, Oh, the goosebumps. Like, real goosebumps. Not like those goosebumps on those ghost-hunting reality shows. We’re talking real-deal goosebumps. Oh, and the hair on the back of your neck.  That part where the hair stands up on the back of your neck.  Sheesh, I love that. Great wine can do that […]

To all Best Winers, This is ridiculous. Usually we encounter one, maybe two superlatives in even the greatest write-up from the likes of Parker, Spectator and the like. The air, rife with the ubiquitous “notes of blah, blah, blah…” can often easily be pierced by the bold ‘enthralling’, ‘explosive’ and/or ‘holy cow!’. When that happens, […]

To all Best Winers, Don’t look now but the holidays are upon us. November is a week away (where has this year gone?) and our thoughts will soon turn towards giving, giving and giving some more. After almost a quarter century in the business, I can unequivocally state that one of the most popular wines […]

To all Best Winers, You say you want a Revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. There’s a lot of us out there that want to change our worlds. Make our mark. Do something different. Doing something different for the sake of being different is one thing. But taking the chance […]

To all Best Winers, How did we manage to finagle magnums of Chianti Classico’s top normale, in a terrific vintage, at nearly 50% off? The curse. The curse of the ‘89’ strikes! Really? How the heck did this wine score an ‘89’ from Antonio Galloni. How? This is silly. Galloni himself wrote, “In 2007, I […]

To all Best Winers, As you may have seen from previous offers, we are occasionally a fan of the ‘bullet point’ as a way of bringing home just what’s so special about a particular offer we send out on a particular day. But today’s offer is more like one BIG bullet point since there are […]

To all Best Winers, Well this doesn’t happen very often. I can tell you the number of wines from Pauillac that are available in America, south of $30. After extensive research I’ve discovered that that number is three. Exactly three chateau in the whole darn area of Pauillac in Bordeaux, home to a lot of […]

To all Best Winers, Giorgio Pelissero is a true visionary.  He’s a very thoughtful, deep guy, with an eye towards the future, which you can tell from his fantastically forward-thinking, yet classically-styled wines. Giorgio’s wines are certainly representative of the new Piedmont, a Piedmont where there are lessons learned from both the ‘traditional’ houses (Mascarello, […]

To all Best Winers, This wine received a monster 95 points score from Decanter Magazine and sells for under $18. What does that mean to you? Plenty. Decanter is essentially England’s version of the Wine Spectator. Actually, it’s a better wine magazine than Wine Spectator at the moment (whoa, did I just write that?), though […]