Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Dolcetto. Ever hear of it? For years this was a grape that wallowed in mediocrity. Not even Dolcetto’s very own growers in the Piedmont region of Italy gave the grape its due. Outside of the very special place I’ll be talking about today, it has traditionally been planted at the bottom […]

To all Best Winers, My road trip a few weeks back to New York for a little ‘Rioja immersion’ proved incredibly fruitful. I got the chance to re-acquaint myself with some old friends (whose wines you will be seeing soon!) and I also got the chance to re-acquaint myself with some older friends. Like, seriously […]

To all Best Winers, David Schildknecht wrote in his massive Wine Advocate article on Molitor that his 2011’s, “…proved to be the most exciting collection I have yet tasted at this address, and indeed among the most exciting of its vintage anywhere.” You guys were apparently smitten as well, as our offer on his 2011 […]

To all Best Winers, We usually send out our white wine offers on Saturdays. But this one was too hot to ignore. I’m drinking your offer right now. Actually, a sizable percentage of this offer may be consumed by our staff this evening (see the margin). It’s a Best Wines party and you’re invited. The […]

To all Best Winers, Selling out of a wine is love/hate relationship for us. On one side of the coin, we love it because we sold all of it! Always a good thing in this business, actually selling stuff. On the other side, we don’t have any more. That’s no fun, and we probably could […]

To all Best Winers, Opportunity knocked and we’re opening the door! We recently purchased a special offer from Europe on one of the greatest Chateauneuf du Pape’s ever made, the 2010 Domaine Pegau Cuvée Reservée. This is a spectacular chance to cash in on one of Chateauneuf’s finest vintages ever, at early-in-the-game prices. Pegau proprietor […]

To all Best Winers, Back before the North Coast of California would become what it is today, a heavily direct-to-consumer oriented business, I used to make road trips up to Sonoma to check out who was new, what was hot, search for new labels. Y’know, do my job. One year I came back with a […]

To all Best Winers, "La Fleur Morange Mathilde (100% Merlot) is bottled early in order to give consumers a joyous, fruit-driven, hedonistic wine with a whopping 14.5% natural alcohol. A sleeper of the vintage, it offers copious notes of blueberry confiture interwoven with kirsch, spring flowers and subtle oak. This medium to full-bodied, full-throttle, delicious, […]

To all Best Winers, So I went to this tasting last year called In Pursuit of Balance. This California movement is all the rage with the sommeliers right now as a bunch of wine types are having an allergic reaction to wines that are ‘over the top’, ‘ponderous’ and/or too high in alcohol for their […]

To all Best Winers, Summer’s coming! I don’t know about you but I love drinking Beaujolais during the summer. A little chill on it, a plate of grilled veggies, maybe some pork tenderloin or a chicken paillard and bam, there you go, the perfect summertime meal. We are nearing the end of the line on […]