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To all Best Winers, Seriously, this is one of the ‘sickest’ values in the world of Nebbiolo today. Let’s give you some type of reference. In Burgundy, this wine is the equivalent of an estate like Domaine de la Romanee Conti taking their Richebourg, Romanee St. Vivant, Grands Echezeaux and Echezeaux and bottling it all […]

To all Best Winers, OMG. That’s my reaction to what’s happening in Napa nowadays, as a fresh swath of $100+ Cabernet wines begin to enter the market. What’s going on up there? What’s in the well water? Don’t they realize how much great wine is out there in the world south of $100? More than […]

To all Best Winers, Spanna, Boca, Barolo, Valtellina. What do these four wines from Italy’s northern climes all have in common? Nebbiolo! For you hardcore ‘Nebb-heads’ out there today’s offer is a little piece of nirvana. For those of you who are less familiar with northern Italy’s ‘King of Grapes’, consider this a little ‘Nebbiolo […]

To all Best Winers, Vincent Mulliez was exactly what Bordeaux needed. His acquisitions of Chateau Bolaire in the Bordeaux Superieur appellation and Chateau de Gironville in the Haut Medoc were not earth-shattering events. There were no articles (that we know of) in Wine Spectator, no ‘breaking news’ reports on CNN. Just a very wealthy guy […]

To all Best Winers, The critics agree, this summer’s blockbuster value double feature from Foxglove will leave your thirst completely slaked! They rave over Foxglove’s amazing Chardonnay, year after year… They’re zany for Foxglove’s Zin!   Foxglove’s Chardonnay and Zinfandel aren’t just the value ‘drink’ of this year, they’re the must-drink event of every year… […]

To all Best Winers, In Burgundy, location is everything. A distance of 3 feet one way or the other can mean the difference between $500 and $50 a bottle. For those vineyard owners on the 'wrong' side of the tracks it has to be somewhat of a bummer. So close! For us though, the wrong […]

To all Best Winers, I remember the first time I tasted a Dierberg wine, something I can’t say about many other top-notch wines I’ve been introduced to. It was one of those classic “Who are these guys, and why are their wines so good?” Had never heard of Dierberg prior to that first tasting but […]

To all Best Winers, I could try to put some kind of spin on or tell some kind of awesome story about today’s offer. But to ignore the effusive, awe-inspiring report by Wine Advocate’s David Schildknecht when it comes to describing Jean-Charles Abbatucci and his wines would be absolute folly on my part. Needless to […]

To all Best Winers, Back in the ‘old days’ Fronsac used to be one of the more prestigious appellations in Bordeaux.  All the best-looking chateaux were there, it was close to the big city (Libourne) so your horses wouldn’t tire heading out for the day and the wines were actually really good. But the phylloxera […]

To all Best Winers, The southern part of Burgundy, known as the Maconnais, is home to some of the greatest Chardonnay bargains in the world. Here we encounter famously appellated Chardonnay wines like Macon-Villages and Pouilly-Fuissé, which have always magically appeared on every wine list in some form or another in seemingly every corner of […]