Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Introducing…Domaine Meuneveaux! We’re picky. Very picky. And we do our research. Lots of research. So when we went to Burgundy back in March for the bi-annual Burgundy Days tastings of the excellent 2012 vintage our list of viable, new candidates for our Burgundy section was a short one. Freddy Meuneveaux was […]

To all Best Winers, I know, we just sent you a 100+ year-old vine offer yesterday, but we just can’t help ourselves. To our credit, this one’s a bit different. Today’s offer is even a bit rarer in the world of older vineyards as these centenary vines produce white grapes…sort of. Most of the wine […]

To all Best Winers, It’s more craziness from Ridge. This is history on the grandest scale. No one has done it better, for longer, than Paul Draper and his passionate winemaking team. Ridge was doing ‘native yeast’ before any of the hot labels on the market today. They were doing ‘old vines’ before anyone else. […]

To all Best Winers, 100 points. In the world of fine wine it gets no better. Perfection. Triple digits. The hundred-meister! Perfection generally comes at a steep rice. Nowadays, the least expensive 100 point wine you can purchase will run you upwards of $200-$300 a bottle, if you’re a smart shopper. Problem is most of […]

To all Best Winers, This past March, Robert Parker of the Wine Advocate conducted a Masterclass in Shanghai, China designed to showcase two great vintages of Bordeaux, 2000 and 2009.  In Parker’s description of 2009, he raves that it’s a “more modern vintage with lusciousness, opulence and voluptuous, showy, flamboyant personality.  It is similar, but […]

To all Best Winers, This wine epitomizes what we love about the humbling nature of the wine business. Just when you think you know it all… We go to Bordeaux at least once a year. We taste the wines, visit the estates, talk to the insiders. We have a pretty firm grip on what’s happening […]

To all Best Winers, Boy, lots to cover on this offer, so stay with me! First, let’s talk Mark Tarlov. If the name isn’t familiar to you I’m sure his wines are. He’s a pretty low profile dude that makes high profile juice! You may remember some of the wines from the first project he […]

To all Best Winers, Drinking wine is not a crime. It’s a pleasure. A joy. Like laughing, or getting pushed on a swing. Just go with it. Sometimes the less we think, the better. I know once in while all I want to do is haul off and crack a bottle of something red, something […]

To all Best Winers, It’s still summertime and for some reason incredible wines at truly knee-weakening prices are crossing our desks as fast as we can taste them. This almost never happens during this traditionally slower time of year. In spite of the drought here in SoCal it’s raining great wine. The other day this […]

To all Best Winers, Talk about your nice ‘upgrades’. This is like going from ‘business’ to ‘first’…on your own jet! Guigal’s 2010 Cote Rotie Ampuis was reviewed as 94-96 point wine from barrel by both jeb Dunnuck and Robert Parker. Obviously, things changed. We opened the most recent Wine Advocate and what did we find? […]