Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Today’s offer is a very special ‘one-off’ wine from one of Napa’s oldest and most spectacular wineries. Vine Cliff Winery was established in 1871, when 500 acres were carved out of the original George Yount estate (yes, the ‘Yountville’ Yount). One of the first bonded wineries in the United States, and the first in Napa to plant Bordeaux varietals on […]

To all Best Winers, This is it. If you want the Best bottle of Chianti Classico produced in the epic 2010 vintage you got it right here, right now. One of the greatest Chianti Classicos ever made is yours, for a measly $36.98. It’s simple. Fattoria Felsina’s Chianti Classico Riserva Cru Rancia 2010 is, year […]

To all Best Winers, Some of you may remember this piece we wrote back in September of last year. Many of you bought the wines!    Recently, we had the chance to return to these 'secret vineyards' and get a little more in-depth with regards to their amazing locations. Check out the photos, watch the […]

To all Best Winers, Andrea Bosco. Remember the name. This guy has skills. Mad, crazy Nebbiolo skills. I’ve been following his path for a number of years and would get a little more excited each year as Andrea’s talents unfolded, as we slowly watched him learn his craft, watched him grow as a winemaker. Well, […]

To all Best Winers, “…these are some of the richest and most textured wines being made anywhere in the world.” – Antonio Galloni “Dal Forno’s wines throw so much at you at once, in machine-gun rapid-fire succession, you need extra time to recover from the whiplash, gather your thoughts and assess them correctly. They are […]

To all Best Winers, Here’s the deal. For years there has been one producer in the Burgundy commune of Givry that was acknowledged as the ‘top dog’, the best, the one Givry you needed in your cellar. His name is Joblot, and his wines are very good. Francois Lumpp changed that. There’s a new sheriff […]

To all Best Winers, What a vintage. Y’know, it’s only after the smoke clears that we in the wine business can properly determine just how great or not-so-great certain vintages may be. Sometimes the hype is justified, other times we settle in, take a look at a supposedly great body of work and go, “meh.” […]

To all Best Winers, “The 2007 Imperial Gran Reserva is again a great wine in the making.” – Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate What do you do if you’re suddenly the hottest Spanish wine producer in America right now after your 2004 Imperial Gran Reserva was voted Wine of the Year by Wine Spectator? I […]

To all Best Winers, On Saturday we sent you a compelling e-mail offer on a wine from a winemaker, Chris Ringland, who had managed to craft six different 100 point Wine Advocate wines over the course of his career. Well, today we did you one better. Pierre Seillan, as far as we can tell, has […]

To all Best Winers, Ah, nothing like watching the kids grow up. I had the pleasure of getting in on the ‘ground floor’ of this now-legend winemaking operation back in the difficult 2002 vintage. I remember thinking that the partners, Jorge Ordoñez, Dan Philips and Chris Ringland, though a formidable line-up, were crazy to start […]