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To all Best Winers, Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc is on the verge of extinction. For a wine with such a rich history in the Napa Valley, it is sad for us to see fewer and fewer bottlings of this versatile, complex white grape variety as interpreted by one of the finest wine growing regions in […]

To all Best Winers, That Joni Mitchell, quite the prophet. Who knew that Big Yellow Taxi would relate so well to the current situation that we have the pleasure of addressing as it relates to the northern Rhone Valley? 2009 is one of the greatest vintages ever in the northern Rhone, period. I’ve been selling […]

To all Best Winers, Three Glasses. To most Americans it implies that three people will be having wine with their meal. As in the server at a restaurant saying, “Shall I bring three glasses?” To some hardcore wine geeks it means that you’ll be tasting three wines at the same time, as in “Go ahead […]

To all Best Winers, The ‘2001’ is not a typo. Great story here. So, the sales rep for this shockingly amazing wine walks into our offices the other day with this bottle. “Hey, I got this 10 year old Gran Reserva from Spain that you can sell for $12!” Well, that piqued our interest. How […]

To all Best Winers, I had lunch with Napa winemaking legend Robert Foley (but you can call him ‘Bob’) last week. Dude is a Napa Valley institution. Amazing track record. Some things I knew, some I didn’t. Bob got his inspiration after tasting the 1968 Inglenook Charbono from cask, back in Inglenook’s pre-corporate days when […]

To all Best Winers, You guys following Antonio Galloni’s new site? He’s starting to post some new tasting reports, of which his most recent was a big one on Tuscany. It is, of course, our job as merchants to pore through these reports and break them down to sections, with one of the main points […]

To all Best Winers, The Hickinbotham Vineyard in the Clarendon sub-region of South Australia’s McLaren Vale winegrowing area is one of the most historically significant vineyards in Australia. Ok, that was a lot of info for one sentence. Yet there’s a long story to tell here and I don’t have a lot of space, but […]

To all Best Winers, In the hunt for many consumers to find the ‘Holy Grail’ of Chateauneuf (which we wholeheartedly support!) the fact that the reputation of Chateauneuf du Pape was built around much more than a few micro-production, limited edition bottlings can sometimes be forgotten. What made Chateauneuf du Pape such an acclaimed region […]

To all Best Winers, When the topic of the Greatest Chardonnay on the Planet comes up what area of the world do you think of? Burgundy? Sure, that’s a great place to start. A ton of good Chardonnay out there from Burgundy’s Cote de Beaune. A ton of good, really expensive Chardonnay out there from […]

To all Best Winers, Good Lord, Jean-Marc Lafage, whatever you’re doing, don’t stop! This whole synbergy between Lafage and importer Eric Solomon is flat-out crazy. Wine after brilliant wine, all at amazing prices, have come from this dynamic duo of wine minds. First there was that Lafage Novellum Chardonnay 2011 we’re selling. For $9.88 a […]