Past Offers

To all Best Winers, “Simply put, 2010 is the greatest young Barolo vintage I have tasted in 18 years of visiting the region and a lifetime of buying, cellaring and drinking these wines.” – Antonio Galloni That is the boldest of comments coming from the man many believe to be the preeminent Italian wine critic […]

To all Best Winers, Sometimes we have to remember that we are in the wine business. Crazy as it sounds, everyone along the way needs to make money doing this thing. It’s the nature of the beast. Thus, it is occasionally up to the wineries to find a way to make their customers more money […]

To all Best Winers, Jon and Elizabeth Bowen’s booth was literally our first stop on the first day of the Vinisud wine show we attended last year. Elizabeth was downright pleasant, Jon was polite but you could tell he was quickly gauging us, working out in his head if we were going to be right […]

To all Best Winers, One of the most thrilling ‘new’ discoveries in white Burgundy has just arrived at Best Wines. But let us tell you why this wine thrills. First, let’s talk Chablis. Chablis is the world’s first ‘naked’ Chardonnay. I know, I know, there are about a hundred ‘inox’, ‘unwooded’ and ‘steel’ Chardonnays from […]

To all Best Winers, Chianti Classico just isn’t the same any more, which is a good thing! The latest releases we’re seeing today from Chianti’s vanguard producers are the finest we’ve ever tasted, hands down. These are pure, elegant Sangiovese wines that have a fantastic sense of place, plenty of fruit and exquisite balance, all […]

To all Best Winers, Sometimes we just have to have something full-throttle, juicy, round, lush. Not every wine can be this ponderous thing. Sure it’s fun to think about wine every once and a while, but gosh darn-it we like to drink it more! And speaking of round, juicy, lush wines, today’s offer gets no […]

To all Best Winers, Besllum is Catalan for ‘a ray of bright light coming through a small opening in a dark background’. Montsant, roughly translated, means ‘holy mountain’.  When I tasted this wine I immediately understood where both of those names came from. Besllum is indeed a ray of light from a holy mountain. Yes, […]

To all Best Winers, Everything old is new again. Cliché, yes, but true. Back around the turn of the millennium, when everyone was planting their Pinot Noir vineyards, the sexy choice among folks putting sticks in the ground was what are commonly referred to as the Dijon Clones of Pinot Noir. If you’ve ever heard […]

To all Best Winers, We here at Best Wines are generally not doom-sayers. We’re happy people, silver lining, glass half full types. But we must be honest and say that the 2013 Rosé wines from France have thus far, with a few exceptions, been dreadful. Flat, insipid, just kind of ‘blah’ wines coming from the […]

To all Best Winers, OK, any guess as to what is the hottest category in the world of fine wine right now? I think you could probably have about 20 whacks at it before you got close, unless you’re truly ‘down’ with all the hipsters in the wine world. So, I’m going to give you […]