Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Amidst the doldrums of the lackluster 2013 Bordeaux futures campaign, we’ve just received a strong reminder of why we love, drink and collect Bordeaux… I remember when the 2000 La Croix du Casse first arrived on our shores over twelve years ago. I was excited to think I could actually afford […]

To all Best Winers, The year was 2000. I had already booked my ticket to attend the annual Z.A.P. (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) Tasting in San Francisco, even though I already knew the vintage being featured, 1998, was perhaps the weakest Zinfandel vintage since 1990, the year in which Zinfandel began to enjoy its latest […]

To all Best Winers, The 2012 Red Burgundies are starting to arrive! The vintage is, in many appellations, outstanding, and a true miracle considering the conditions with which vignerons were faced. Outside of locusts and frogs, Mother Nature threw everything but the kitchen sink at the fine farmers of Burgundy in 2012, but somehow, some […]

To all Best Winers, As a big-time Viognier/Condrieu fan I’ve been licking my lips waiting for this one… You have to hand it to Francois Pinault, the man has a keen eye for property. He’s one of the world’s richest men…and he loves wine. So when he sees a truly unique vineyard come up for […]

To all Best Winers, Everybody needs house wine and party wine, right? We’re often asked by our clients about what we have ‘in house’ that sells for a song yet will provide an honest glassful of red or white for parties, larger get-togethers, and so on. Apparently, we all don’t sit  around drinking Romanée Conti […]

To all Best Winers, Barolo geeks, this one’s for you. The Barolo region and the Nebbiolo grape are near and dear to me. The symbiotic relationship between food and wine achieves its zenith in Piedmont. Drinking Barolo and having a plate of agnolotti del plin or tajarin con tartufo bianco is, to me, about as […]

To all Best Winers, Bandol is sneaky. As in sneaky good. If some of you have had these powerful Bandol wines from the Provence region in France before, you’ll know what I’m talking about. It’s the Mourvedre. Mourvedre is the core grape in Bandol wines, ripening perfectly in the Provencal sunshine. In Chateauneuf du Pape […]

To all Best Winers, Shhhh… If we told you the vineyard that produced the grapes to make this outstanding bottle of Rutherford Cab we would have to do horrible things to you to prevent the secret from getting out. Here’s how it works.  A big but prestigious vineyard in the Rutherford area of the Napa […]

To all Best Winers, I knew there was a reason this wine was so good. I just had to dig for it. Saiagricola, the larger concern that owns Fattoria del Cerro, as well as Colpetrone in Umbria and La Poderina in Montalcino, has a secret weapon at their disposal. No, it’s not the vineyards, though […]

To all Best Winers, Ok, now this is exciting. Wilde Farm. These wines give me the same kind of goose bumps as when I tried Mike Officer’s Carlisle wines the first time, or when I tried Pax Mahle’s wines the first time. Didn’t know who they were, just knew that the juice in the bottle […]