Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Champagne stories get no cooler than this. Lilbert-Fils is a super-duper, eensy-weensy, teeny-tiny, insanely high quality Champagne ‘house’..literally. As in, their cellars are, like, underneath their house. The Lilbert family has been cultivating their tiny plots, totaling 8.6 acres, since the 1700’s. Their ‘backyard’ vineyards are scattered around Champagne’s Cote des […]

To all Best Winers, Beautiful people. Beautiful land. Beautiful wines. That pretty much sums up Gritsch Mauritiushof, one of the finest wineries in the ‘bling’ Wachau appellation of Austria. The Wachau is pretty much Austria’s Napa Valley, it’s where many of their finest vineyards are located and it’s where almost all of the country’s in-demand […]

To all Best Winers, This isn’t the Battle of Britain. This is the Battle for Brittan… Brittan Vineyards is the hottest producer of Pinot Noir in Oregon right now…and we got ‘em. That feels good to say! Robert Brittan left behind the ‘corporate’ winemaking trappings of Napa Valley (he pretty much ‘ran tings’ at places […]

To all Best Winers, Sometimes you have to make some pretty tough decisions in the wine business.  Decisions that no one that produces fine wine wants to make, but have to for economical or even, gasp, practical reasons. Boroli was faced with just such a decision, they made the right one, and we’re benefiting from […]

To all Best Winers, Jonathan Maltus has quickly become the darling of Bordeaux. His Bordeaux line-up from the 2010 vintage received incredible marks across the board including the coveted 100 points from Robert Parker for his top-of-the-line wine, Le Dome. Today we’re offering what we think is arguably his finest quality-to-price ratio wine, the stunning […]

To all Best Winers, It’s one thing to make enological history, it’s another to sustain it. How many wineries were once trailblazers then, for whatever reason, be it bad business skills, indifference, what have you, fell by the wayside, into mediocre wine oblivion? More than you think. I won’t name names but the list is […]

To all Best Winers, A Star is Born. Contrary to our supplemental graphic, no, I’m not talking about the Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson ‘star vehicle’ remake of the 1937 and 1954 versions of the same film. Digressing, Rita Coolidge and Tony Orlando rocked it playing ‘themselves’ in that 1976 version! Anyway, the ‘Star’ in […]

To all Best Winers, Like with any business, the wine biz has its share of tough sells and easy sells. This is one of the easy ones. Wow, is this wine good. I remember having it in 2012 as a tank sample at one of importer Eric Solomon’s big tastings. I remember loving it then. […]

To all Best Winers, Tibor Gal may not be a household name to many of you reading this but his legacy is extreme, to say the least. Tibor became one of the founding fathers of the current Bolgheri movement when he helped take the famed Tenuta dell’Ornellaia winery to a whole ‘nother level back in […]

To all Best Winers, No question. Argentina’s hottest producer right now is Chakana. And it’s fun to say. Chakana! Chakana! Chakana! And fun to drink. If wineries were rated on a 100 point scale of ‘pleasurable beverages’ then Chakana would rate ‘101’. Chakana is the product of the passion of a lot of very determined […]