Past Offers

To all Best Winers, “I tasted the 2012s over a 7 week period and by the end of it they reminded me of the 1985s as they’re fleshy, balanced, delicious and should drink well both young and old.  Those readers that have been collecting for a while may remember that the 1985s were largely dismissed […]

To all Best Winers, Through extensive research (okay, Wikipedia), I found out a Marqués Is not a Duke, nor is he a Count. A Marqués is somewhere in the middle. Apparently, these in-the-middle guys pretty much lucked out when it came to the ‘bequeathed Rioja vineyard land sweepstakes’. Marques de Murrieta and Marques de Caceres […]

To all Best Winers, A recent stroll down the aisles chez Best Wines turned up some “Whoa there!” moments in our Cab section. Actually I found a quartet of awesomeness of which we had a few bits and pieces left to share. I love Napa Cabernet, it’s just that most of the time I can’t […]

To all Best Winers, This wine might find a home with most of our ‘locals’ who bleed ‘Dodger Blue’ but, beyond that, we think this wine will find a lot more homes out of state when people get a taste of it. California and Syrah go together like Laverne & Shirley, Bonnie & Clyde, Captain […]

To all Best Winers, There is no better a roster of Cotes du Rhone wines produced than Marc Besnardeau’s line-up at his Domaine Les Grands Bois. I mean it. This guys is beyond-good at what he does. In a few short years this cat has crafted a stable of reds that are the envy of […]

To all Best Winers, Whenever I’ve gone to Germany on buying trips, there’s been one producer in particular that I’ve never missed. He’s the sweetest guy and, guaranteed, if we’re staying for dinner we’re always in for a serious treat. One by one, wine by wine, he heads down to the cellar, selecting a wine […]

To all Best Winers, More Bolgheri! Awesome!  By the way, it is pronounced bowl-gary (emphasis on the ‘bowl’) for those of you who might be a bit curious seen as its kind of a strange word in Italian. You guys like Bolgheri wines! Great, because I do too. It’s one of Italy’s most happening wine […]

To all Best Winers, It’s not too often we get a ‘jaw-dropper’ through here. Very rarely, almost never, do we taste a wine that literally makes us stop talking, stop everything, really, and focus on the experience we’re having at a given point and time. This is a ‘jaw-dropper’ of the first kind. After 27 […]

To all Best Winers, Where there are unfavorable economic times there are opportunities. Serious deals begin to appear. When everybody was crying doom and gloom in early 2009, it was the wise investor who stepped in and took advantage of a depressed, oversold stock and floundering real estate markets. And guess what…those smart investors made […]

To all Best Winers, Bobal. Is there a funner (okay, ‘more fun’) grape variety to say? BOBAL! Yet, for all the fun in saying it, the Bobal grape takes itself very seriously. It’s been the heartbreak of many a winemaker who has attempted to crack the code, and make a profound wine from this potentially […]