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100 Points… Sheer perfection… If you were to ask what some of the most memorable bottles of Bordeaux were that I’ve ever tasted, several wines from Margaux’s Chateau Palmer would be at or near the top of my all-time favorites. It’s an estate that I personally collect and it’s hard for me to find the words that can accurately

There are lots of ways to look at this, but perhaps the one that makes the most sense is as an opportunity. Importer Neal Rosenthal dances to his own beat and is well entrenched in the wine world after some 40 years in business. He has earned the right to go his own way and is established enough

The wine world is a much bigger place now than it was a couple decades ago. Since the early 1990’s we’ve seen Spain, Italy, Australia and New Zealand all ‘step up their game’ and start producing wines that rival the best that France and the U.S. had to offer…

Y’know, there’s a lot of chateaux in Bordeaux. And even with our ‘fingers in every pie’ of the Bordeaux business so to speak there are a certain few which fly underneath our radar…

We’ve told you the story already of Podernuovo a Palazzone, a new wine estate in Southern Tuscany, close to San Casciano dei Bagni, at the border to Lazio and Umbria, but it bears repeating.

One might presume that, given the long time we have been at this, it would be pretty hard to surprise us. That might be true to an extent. There are a lot of things that are definitely ‘the same old thing’. But there has always been an energy underlying the wine business where some people that have

It seemed like only yesterday (it was actually November 2017) we were excitedly prattering on about the return of one of our favorite go-to Riojas after a long absence from the marketplace. At the time, probably a decade or so ago, we were presented with the Valsacro Dioro 2001. It was love at first sip and we kept

Gang, this is the second-highest scoring Chianti in the history of the Wine Spectator. Let that settle in. In over 6000 historical reviews of Chianti over the last 30+ years, only seven (7!) wines have scored higher than the Viticcio Chianti Classico Riserva 2015, only by a single point and with two of those selling for over $200 a bottle

‘Every picture tells a story’ they say. We would suggest you could say the same thing about a wine. For each glassful of finished juice there are lands, grapes, and people that contribute to that end result. If the site, or the winemakers have their own unique history, all the better. We have been telling those

Miss that screaming deal on the Liparita Atlas Peak Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 a few weeks back? The doors literally blew off the store when we sent that out. And yes, that was a silly Anniversary Sale deal we cannot replicate… But we can come close, with perhaps an even greater wine.