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To all Best Winers, Argentina is making some mighty fine wine right now. In fact, if we had our druthers we would be selling more of it than we actually do. The value factor is strong here, and the wines wear their grape varieties on their sleeves. The Chardonnays are brilliant little chameleons, one moment […]

To all Best Winers, Welcome to the next installment of James Suckling throwing down the gauntlet to Kyle and the Best Wines Team. We were more than up for his ‘Wine Challenge’, an ongoing online video series where he’s presented a series of wines, served blind, by the world’s premier wine merchants, who cross their […]

To all Best Winers, Short and sweet today, as when you get the opportunity to sell one of the world’s greatest white wines at nearly half price not much more needs to be said. Today's offer? Chateau de Beaucastel’s Chateaneuf du Pape Blanc Roussanne Cuvée Vieilles Vignes. Quite a mouthful, we understand. And the wine […]

To all Best Winers, We caught our first glimpse of summer here in SoCal last week and we were definitely caught with our pants down.  No white wine at home, scrambling to chill down some Beaujolais to pair up with the 48 hours of summer we ‘endured’. We got through it, but our lesson was […]

To all Best Winers, When it came time to belly up to the Chateau de la Negly booth at last year’s Vinisud Wine Show in Montpelier we were hoping to see some fireworks.  Of course we were going to get a tasting (drinking?) of the famed La Porte du Ciel from this estate as well […]

To all Best Winers, We aren't winemakers. We seldom speculate on how many of the world's greatest wines are produced. Winemakers have their secrets, and they generally don't let people in on them because it's, like, a secret or something.  We usually don't care too much about the 'how' something great finds its way into […]

To all Best Winers, Over the last two decades Chateau Thieuley has become one of the premier estates of the Bordeaux AC appellation thanks to the brilliant leadership of the sister and sister team of Marie and Sylvie Courselle. And some of you will indeed notice the fact that this limited library release from the […]

To all Best Winers, "Egly-Ouriet remains one of Champagne’s leading small growers. From top to bottom these wines impress for their inimitable class." -Antonio Galloni Francis Egly’s wines put the ‘grower’ in Grower Champagne. His Egly-Ouriet Champagnes were some of the first estate-bottled bubbles to be introduced to America and capture the essence of what […]

To all Best Winers, Everything about today’s offering is cool. The labels are cool, the wines are cool, even the owner/winemakers name, Adi Badenhorst, is cool. There’s almost a danger of this offering being too hip. In wine terms, Adi Badenhorst is one of South Africa’s up and coming rebel rock stars.  He left a […]

To all Best Winers, Nobody in the world is better at dealing with a difficult vintage than the Bordelaise.  Good thing, because in 2012, Mother Nature made all the chateaux in Bordeaux run her gauntlet. To watch Tristen's in-depth interview/analysis of the vintage with Jeff Leve of the The Wine Cellar Insider, click here. So […]