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To all Best Winers, I guess you learn a thing or two when you spend 15 years working at Argentina’s greatest winery. TintoNegro was born of the long time friendship and professional collaboration of Alejandro Sejanovich and Jeff Mausbach, colleagues at Bodega Catena Zapata for those 15 years. As Wine Education Director for Catena, Jeff travelled the world preaching the gospel of […]

To all Best Winers, Some things come in a surprising way…   So, I am at a tasting of 2011 Bordeaux barrel samples at one of the largest negocients in Bordeaux. Things are moving along, the 2011’s are well made and there are some highlights; but after the success of the 2010 vintage, it was difficult […]

To all Best Winers, Dude! The Roussillon rocks! Totally! Jeb is now getting the luxury of finding that out as he becomes the new full time Languedoc and Roussillon correspondent for the Wine Advocate. Hey, we’ve always known that France’s finest value offerings outside of the occasional killer Cotes du Rhone are generally pulled from […]

To all Best Winers, Hey, ‘scores’ happen.  We can try to take some kind of ‘merchant high road’ and say we don’t care about scores but we’d be lying. They do play into what we do and do feature on our daily offers. They are a factor, but they are not THE factor. A wine […]

To all Best Winers, My desert island white wine?   Condrieu. Not Viognier. Lets be clear. Though Condrieu is made from 100% Viognier, most Viogniers ARE NOT Condrieu. Sorry if that sounds high-falutin’ or snobby but is true. There’s a reason why Viognier is Viognier but Condrieu is Condrieu.   Most ‘Viognier’ producers would never have the guts […]

To all Best Winers, Raising the Cote des Bar. I had that line all prepped for the leader to this piece, until I found out Champagne guru Peter Liem had already used it in a Wine & Spirits article detailing just how exciting this once-forgotten Champagne region has become. The Cote des Bar is way […]

To all Best Winers, 1986…   Mike Tyson becomes the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history.   Seven million Americans join hands in "Hands Across America"   The Fly with Jeff Goldblum hits theaters.    IBM unveils the first Laptop computer…   Did you also know 1986 was a great year for Bordeaux?  It was the […]

To all Best Winers, Where to start, where to start, where to start? Lets just say that if anyone in the Rhone had the opportunity to pretty much compose their  ‘dream’ vineyard scenario, we’re pretty sure Chene Bleu’s enviable layout would top the list. The Rolet family really stumbled on to something here when they bought […]

To all Best Winers, Spain is it’s in own worst enemy. I know they’re trying to create a premium wine culture in Spain right now. There are a whole bunch of new start-up projects that are trying to fetch $50 or $100+ for their new releases. And you know what? Many of those wines are […]

To all Best Winers, The wells are drying up. A couple of years ago, when we would take our now-annual trips to Burgundy, one of the greatest joys we would have would be tasting through the older library stocks of some of the region’s finest producers, selecting only the cream of the crop at the […]