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To all Best Winers, Goodness. Let me start by saying I absolutely love the color of today’s wine. That deep, dark, inky purple to the rim, where just a hint of ruby pops up to lighten the moment. It’s that opaqueness that you just want to drink…and drink. That’s the Ispiri Petit Verdot Rockpile 2009. […]

To all Best Winers, Before the Santa Cruz Mountains became the trendy ‘it’ appellation in California. Before the Santa Cruz Mountains had Rhys, the current mailing list-only darling. Before they had the Varner brothers and their world-class Chardonnays. Before there was an Arnot-Roberts and their impossible-to-get wines. Before all that…there was Mount Eden Vineyards. Since […]

To all Best Winers, When it rains it pours and, for some reason, we’ve been absolutely deluged in August! Remember when we said last week that The Table 2010 Pinot Noir was our Pinot Noir find of the year thus far? I think it’s fair enough to re-phrase that. Let’s call The Table our California […]

To all Best Winers, First of all, I’d like to extend a hearty and heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to Rioja for acknowledging our passion and commitment to the wines of Rioja. Look at that beautiful award! We are humbled by the honor we received on our recent trip to New York to attend the annual Vibrant […]

To all Best Winers, So this is Chablis made by the great Bernard Raveneau that sells for $30? Well, kind of. Yes, Bernard Raveneau, grower/winemaker of the most sought-after, in-demand Chardonnays on the planet, is indeed involved in this project he spawned with Kermit Lynch and the Collet family, caretakers of several of Chablis’ finest […]

To all Best Winers, Who was Saxum before they were SAXUM? Who was Linne Calodo before they were LINNE CALODO? I had the pleasure of selling both of those winery’s earliest releases on a retail level back in the days before they got zillion point scores and went ‘mailing list only’. Those were exciting times. […]

To all Best Winers, It's here! Last September we offered up this spectacular cellar-direct deal from La Vieille Cure and its American owners Colin Ferenbach and Peter Sachs. It was an instant sell-out so we called the chateau for more. They obliged, actually selling their final stocks of this terrific aged Bordeaux deal to us. […]

To all Best Winers, It’s the return of The Table! The sommelier’s secret is back, but this time in a completely different incarnation. We know you loved the 2009 Cabernet we sold a few months back. It was an instant sell-out and you guys clamored for more. Sorry, we bought all they had…and sold it […]

To all Best Winers, It looks like the 2011 Douro reds are a ‘thing’. Talk about your smokin’-hot categories! You know a genre is hot when you bring in a huge slug of a wine that you’re planning to send an e-mail on and most of it sells out…before you write the offer. It looks […]

To all Best Winers, 2007 was perhaps the greatest Cotes du Rhone vintage of all time. Although much has been made of the many ‘best-ever’ candidates in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, it was in fact the lesser appellations that benefited from the sunny, picture-perfect 2007 harvest. I remember tasting these wines like it was yesterday.  Every southern Rhone […]