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Yup, last call on a quartet of Winex ‘house’ Bordeaux picks. A reminder to you fine Bordeaux lovers that we’re down to our last 10 cases (or less) on these perennial favorites. Between this line-up we’ve sold hundreds of cases but even the value plays in Bordeaux are finite. Scoop them up now…

The history I have with Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot, is a long one, going back nearly two decades. Over the years I’ve stayed at the estate many times, having morning coffee with Juliette Becot’s mother before my day of tasting, being invited to their beach home in Cap Ferret for barbecues and collaborating on many dinners and tastings both here

We’ve sold a lot of wine over the years, from many wineries both here and abroad. We literally could not add up the number of ‘entities’, both virtual (with no winery of their own) or ‘actual’ that have passed through our store’s shelves over time.

Vintage knowledge is particularly important in all wines, but nowhere does it matter more than Burgundy. Sandwiched between two very flashy and ‘critically ordained’ vintages (1999 and 2002), the 2001 vintage has been an excellent source for surprising Burgundy gems over the years. The wines were a bit reticent out of the gate, and it probably didn’t help matters

Incumbent in doing what we do is trying to educate and explain why we have made a particular recommendation. There are a lot of factors in buying anything from cars to homes to, well, bottles of wine. Perspective is one of them. Maybe we think too much about this stuff. But we speak to a

We’re crazy for Carmenere! And I gotta say, it certainly took Chile long enough to figure out their ‘home team’ grape. I mean, honestly, kind of tough to do the whole ’we have Carmenere’ thing and then not really make a good one for, like, a decade.

No one was more surprised than we were when we were offered the opportunity to sell the Champagne de Barons de Rothschild Brut at roughly half price a short while back. You know the story, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild of Château Clarke, Baron Eric de Rothschild of Château Lafite Rothschild, and the late Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, along with

Never in the past two decades of the Wine Advocate has there been a 98-100 point score on a wine that was priced under $100 dollars. As you may know, the 2009 and 2010 Pontet-Canet both received 100 points and are now selling for $250 dollars! In fact, as crazy as it may sound, I save ALL my

This is one of those stories that kind of defies the odds. The tale itself is simple enough as told by the ‘creators’. Four friends from New York decided to descend upon the Napa Valley. Not unlike most visitors from the outside, they toured and tasted over the course of four days. On the fifth day they had decided

“Vietti’s 2016 Barolos are stratospheric. I have been following the wines for several years, first as separate lots, then as young wines in barrel. In all of those tastings, the wines were never anything less than mesmerizingly beautiful and full of potential. Now that they are in bottle, that potential has been realized. These are, quite simply, the most monumental