Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Can you keep a secret? Good, because I sure know that we can’t! We’ve just launched a new, exciting feature to our site at Best Wines Online. Top Secret pricing. It’s pricing so good that we can’t share it with the general wine buying public. Only Best Wines customers get to see just […]

To all Best Winers, Talk about your ‘Sleepers’! If you’ve ever read Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, you’ll notice he uses this term quite often when discussing certain wines from Bordeaux that fit a certain criteria. That criteria is a wine at a really fair price, that completely over delivers for that money. It’s also usually a wine that […]

To all Best Winers, Usually, the northern Rhone is not synonymous with value. All of those hi-falutin’ Cote Rotie, Hermitage and St. Joseph wines will set you back a pretty penny, especially the good ones. Generally, those patches of real estate are simply too expensive for a small vigneron to de-classify. These guys need to […]

To all Best Winers, He is…the Most Interesting Man in the World… Chaim Gur-Arieh has one heckuva story. C.G. DiArie Vineyards and Winery being just the latest installment of what has been a storied career. After immigrating to Israel from Turkey as a teenager, Chaim served as an officer in an Israeli tank division. That’s […]

To all Best Winers, I love to hunt for wine.  In my years as a merchant, nothing in this business thrills me more than finding ‘buried treasure’.  Whether it is a line item amidst a twenty-page list or something that blew me away in a restaurant.  The adrenaline rush of just such a discovery is […]

To all Best Winers,   Well now, this is interesting. At first, we weren’t quite sure what to make of this offer we received from our sources in Europe. Thirteen year old Spanish wine from Priorat? Then again, this isn’t just any old Priorat wine, this is the fabled 2001 Rottlan Torra Tirant. Tough name to say, easy […]

To all Best Winers, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, nothing beats opening an incredibly good bottle of wine and having it be even better than you had anticipated. Being blown away by a bottle of wine, especially after 25 years in the wine biz and 50,000+ wine tasted, is a sincere […]

To all Best Winers, One of California’s truly unique and captivating vineyards has done it again. Melville’s 2012 Santa Rita Hills Estate Pinot Noir is a masterpiece. I guess it’s pretty cool to know that your ‘estate’ wine comes from one of the most highly desirable ‘estates’ in the Santa Rita Hills. It’s literally a smorgasbord of […]

To all Best Winers, The 2011 Gros’ Noré Bandol has just arrived and it is absolutely spectacular.  It is without a doubt one of the most riveting bottles of Mourvedre we’ve ever tasted. It’s truly remarkable what this relatively new domain has done in a very short period of time. I know some of you […]

To all Best Winers, Location. Location Location. It’s the first rule of real estate, but apparently the last rule for Dave Phinney. After selling The Prisoner brand to Franciscan in 2010 for like, a zillion dollars, we suppose Dave can pretty much thumb his nose at any conventional wine thinking with that kind of green […]