Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Don’t go to some big box store and force yourself into a California Sparkling Wine (not that they’re bad, mind you) when you can have REAL Champagne at a ‘Sparkling Wine’ price. I know your next thought. “Which Champagne is it?” It’s Placere Brut Les Filantes. “What?” Placere Brut Les Filantes. […]

To all Best Winers, Michael Twelftree could very well be the most successful Aussie vintner working today. His Two Hands wines are considered the new standard-bearers for South Australian wine. Their unique combination of powerful fruit, inky colors, vibrant acids and moderate oak captured the attention of American wine drinkers everywhere who were looking for […]

To all Best Winers, It’s here. The wine that inspired our quest for older-vintage Corton! The 2002 Louis Latour Corton Grancey was an eye-opener to say the least. We’d never really thought that wines of this quality, with this kind of provenance, from these kinds of vintages, could actually be out there…at these kinds of […]

To all Best Winers, I’m probably starting this thing the wrong way but there’s a reason there isn’t a lot of Swiss wine in America. The Swiss. These people are relentless wine drinkers. They are also fiercely loyal to their local wares. The Swiss have a wonderfully nagging tendency to fervently support their local market. […]

To all Best Winers, Ok, let’s remember something.  Let’s reflect on James Suckling and who he really is. For almost 30 years James was one of the driving forces behind the Wine Spectator, arguably the world’s most popular wine magazine. Let’s call a spade a spade. James ‘ran things’ for the Wine Spectator in Europe, […]

To all Best Winers, If you’re going to give that very special someone the gift of wine this season it doesn’t get any better than handing them a bottle of perfection. 100 points. As good as it gets. For today’s offer we’ll keep it short and sweet and let the wines do the talking. We’re […]

To all Best Winers, We told Morgan Twain-Peterson’s story a few months back but to us it never gets old. Short version? Son of one of the undisputed pioneers of premium Zinfandel (Ravenswood’s Joel Peterson) busts out on his own, taking everything he learned from his old man and kicking it up a notch. His […]

To all Best Winers, Funny. This all started with a label. A very cool label, mind you. I love the black and white, old-school feel to the label on Lorenzo Alutto’s wine. It kind of sucked me in. I needed a Barbaresco right now like I needed a hole in the head but it just […]

To all Best Winers, The passion of the hunt. As importers and merchants, we are enthralled by the next discovery.  It fills our veins, captivates us, and make us feel alive when we find such a treasure. These types of wines don’t just walk into your office.  You have to get off your hind-end and […]

To all Best Winers, How can this wine NOT be fantastic? It has everything (and everyone) going for it. First you’ve got the people. The d’Alfonso on the label is Bruno d’Alfonso, former winemaker/partner at Sanford for over two decades. This guy knows how to make Chardonnay, knows every vineyard in the Central Coast and […]