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To all Best Winers, Morocco? Really? Yup. Why can’t Morocco make great wine? Is there some kind of law that says all African wine has to stink? We know for a fact that full-bodied, fiery African wines had been (currently are?) the secret blending agent in many a feeble French vin de table for decades. […]

To all Best Winers, None other than Mr. James Suckling himself cruised into the Best Wines Online offices the other day to film several installments of ‘Wine Challenge’, his online video series where he’s presented a series of wines, served blind, by the country’s premier wine merchants, who in turn have to bite their nails […]

To all Best Winers, I’ve only been witness to the last four vintages from this exciting, young producer but it is obvious La Ferme du Mont’s Stéphane Vedeau is clearly on to something. He’s quickly become one of the top producers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, an area of France that is already positively littered with all-stars. Granted, […]

To all Best Winers, “…this is the finest Cantemerle I have encountered in my professional career of tasting young vintages (dating back 34 years now)…With its 2010, this classified growth located in the southern end of the Medoc may well have made a modern-day version of their legendary 1949.” – Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #205 […]

To all Best Winers, Saturday is Rioja Day! Wait, rewind that. Every day is Rioja Day! It just so happened to be that Los Angeles Times writer S. Irene Virbila decided to pick today to make a Rioja that is near and dear to us as her Wine of the Week. Thus, this rare Saturday […]

To all Best Winers, What kind of a man would seek out vineyard land on the side of an active volcano? What kind of a man would buy these old, low-yielding vineyards that produce a variety of grape and wine that 99.9% of Americans (and probably the same amount of Italians!) have never heard of […]

To all Best Winers, Who knew we had to go to Bordeaux to find the Loire Valley’s next star? It was a warm, sunny evening when we pulled into Au Bonheur du Palais, considered by most to be the finest Chinese restaurant in Bordeaux.  After a week of beef, foie gras, cream sauces, mushrooms and […]

To all Best Winers, I recently had the opportunity to coordinate a wine event for one of our fine local food and wine societies here in Orange County. The theme was Bordeaux 2009 and the wines were all served blind, 13 wines, 13 glasses. May the Best Wine win. Crazy thing is, they did! We […]

To all Best Winers, So, Anne Trimbach walks into our offices the other day with a bag full of goodies. Great Alsatian wines at 9:00 in the morning? No problem! About a half dozen wines pop out of the bag, including their 2004 Ribeaupierre Gewurztraminer (triple awesome and in stock) and their famed Clos St. […]

To all Best Winers, We know, there’s a lot of really great Brunello out there nowadays and our reaction to that is…”finally”.  It took this Italian banker’s weekend getaway located in the south of Tuscany quite few years to pull itself out of its phone-it-in doldrums and start producing wine that matched the reputation of […]