Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Ever hear of a guy by the name of Larry Levin? We’re thinking probably not, though you’ve undoubtedly consumed many of his wines. At 22, he was named winemaker at Dry Creek Vineyards and became the youngest winemaker in the nation. Eighteen years – and thousands of medals and awards later […]

To all Best Winers, Fact or fiction? Guigal’s Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde is seldom if ever seen on retail shelves for anything less than $60 a bottle. Fact. Guigal’s Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde is one of the appellation’s greatest examples for the money even at its usual $60 price. Fact. Cote Rotie has an excellent […]

To all Best Winers, Time to play, “Which score is it?”! An exciting new game show that pits wine critics from the same magazine against each other in a rating duel to the death. Whose score will reign supreme? In one corner we have Jay Miller, formerly the Spanish correspondent for the Wine Advocate. In […]

To all Best Winers, I recently headed out to the Bordeaux and Burgundy regions of France with one mission, to find great wines at fantastic prices.  Specifically, extremely limited library wines that we’re bringing in direct from the source, all perfectly stored at the Chateau or Domaine.  Which leads us to today’s offering… one that […]

To all Best Winers, Save the ocean. Help National Geographic. Own a bottle of one of California’s best sparkling wines! Most of the crew around here at Best Wines are major National Geographic nuts. We have subscriptions, we watch their channel. The work they do to help preserve wildlife both in and out of the […]

To all Best Winers, We caught some grief from many of you for not having enough of the Mitolo Cabernet we sent out a couple weeks ago. Selling out in two hours is usually a good thing but you and I were both lamenting the fact we didn’t have enough. Regardless, we needed more wine. […]

To all Best Winers, The Haut-Medoc region in Bordeaux can be a confusing one.   Most people I know think the Haut-Médoc is actually the upper part of the left bank of Bordeaux, north of the commune of Margaux. After all, it is called the Haut (or, upper) Medoc as opposed to the Bas (lower) […]

To all Best Winers, If there’s ever a Best Wines Online ‘sell-out’ e-mail, this is it. Yes, we will sell out of Raymond Usseglio’s 2010 Imperiale Chateauneuf today.  At 99 points and $99 a bottle it is more than likely the least expensive 99 point Wine Advocate red wine for sale in, like, the whole […]