Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Following in the footsteps of our very successful pre-arrival of the 2005 La Violette Pomerol, our next Bordeaux-direct offer comes directly from the library of Helene Garcin-Leveque, owner of one of Pomerol’s top micro-estates, Clos l’Eglise. It was Sunday, one of the only sunny days during my two week trip to […]

To all Best Winers, “Elio Grasso and his son Gianluca have created one of the finest vineyards and wineries in the Langhe today.” – Monica Larner, from Wine Advocate #207 Monica Larner, the Wine Advocate’s new resident Italian wine reviewer, certainly wasted no time in letting us know who she personally thought was ‘all that’ […]

To all Best Winers, Olivier Hillaire is a cherry-picker, and we couldn’t be happier about it. Hillaire’s domain was originally part of the larger Domaine des Relagnes estate in Chateauneuf du Pape, which had already established itself as one of the best of the appellation prior to the proprietor, Henri Boiron, selling the property in […]

To all Best Winers, Welcome back to the fourth and final installment of James Suckling’s Wine Challenge featuring James and Yours Truly. By now you guys probably know the drill, we pick three wines, James tastes them double blind (which is, like, really really blind) and, if he digs them enough, throws a well-deserved 90 […]

To all Best Winers, How’s this for cool, wine geeky and an absolute must-have? Back in April, the Wine Advocate’s Neal Martin wrote a great article touching base on one of the wine  world’s few remaining, forgotten treasures, the Vins doux naturel wines of Southern France’s Roussillon  region. These ageless sweet wines are snapshots into […]

To all Best Winers, We received a ton of ‘love’ from our William Fevre Chablis Grand Cru offering from a few months ago. Lots of sales, lots of happy people. And why not?  It was the most compelling White Burgundy offer we’ve presented thus far, with $70 wines easily rubbing elbows with wines that cost […]

To all Best Winers, Who’s hotter in the world of California wine than Morgan Twain-Peterson? Following in the old-vine-loving footsteps of his dad, Joel Peterson, founder of Ravenswood, has certainly served him well. His Bedrock label is one of the toughest ‘gets’ out there right now. Seems like people dig on soulful wines produced with […]

To all Best Winers, It’s an American kind of weekend, and that deserves some American kind of wines. But not just any American wines, we knew we needed great American wines, the cream of the crop. That being said, we kick start the weekend with two righteous Cabernet Sauvignons from Napa Valley icon Randy Dunn. […]

To all Best Winers, We’d have to say that at this juncture we’re getting kind of spoiled. Once in a while we have to remind ourselves that the old-vine Garnacha and Monastrell-based Spanish wines that were such a revelation to this market a decade ago (anyone remember that 2001 Las Rocas Garnacha Viña Viejas?) are […]