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To all Best Winers, In my travels to France this past June, I decided to start out in Burgundy before heading to Bordeaux for the Vinexpo Wine Show. The mission?  To find some killer library wines that wouldn’t break the bank.  Was I successful?  Read on… My first stop was the cellar of Domaine Louis […]

To all Best Winers, We usually aren’t the types to throw out a mid-day offer but after this wine crossed our threshold we had to scribble some quick prose and tell the world. It’s the finest wine we’ve ever had from Macedonia! Besides, if Philippe Cambie, the mind behind many of the greatest, 100 point […]

To all Best Winers, Some of you may recall our offering of Bob Long’s Montagna Tre Vigneti Cabernet (almost gone!) from a few months ago.  At that point and time this is how we summed up what was going on with the very special wines being produced up on Pritchard Hill, arguably Napa’s finest terroir […]

To all Best Winers, Chateau Les Gravieres = Under the Radar. It’s seemingly been that way for this boutique St. Emilion estate since it first broke onto the scene with a 2001 that was truly one of the top buys of the vintage with some great press, very reasonable pricing and a flattering, Sally Field-esque […]

To all Best Winers, It’s an official is-anyone-awake-super-duper-white-wine-closeout Saturday! We’ll make this one short and sweet cuz we know you’re heading off to soccer, baseball, dance, vacation, the grocery store and/or the movies. We have two incredible white wine closeouts that were presented to us recently. Problem is there’s only a few cases of each. […]

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To all Best Winers, A conversation we had the other day here at the warehouse just so happened, in typical wine geek fashion, to end up digressing into the topic of dry Riesling. Everyone threw their two cents in, as there were a number of opinions swirling about which country made the BEST dry Riesling. […]

To all Best Winers, “The 2010 Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf du Pape is one of the all-time great Vieux Telegraphes I have tasted in the last 3+ decades.” - Robert Parker Bold statement considering the track record of this illustrious estate in Chateauneuf du Pape. And he’s actually downplaying it. According to his ‘numbers' (and the […]

To all Best Winers, There’s definitely an art to finding a great wine value to present to our customers. You folks want the best. You also want a wine with something to say, full of soul and character. And of course you want just such a wine at a great price. What a coincidence, we […]

To all Best Winers, Let’s talk purity. Let’s talk about ‘naked’ Chardonnay and what that actually entails. Let’s forget I just used the word ‘naked’ to sell a bottle of wine… Chardonnay is, in many people’s minds, the King of white wine grapes for a number of reasons. It can make minerally, steely, chalky wines; […]