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To all Best Winers, Welcome to the latest installment of ‘Numbers Don’t Lie’! Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not a numbers chaser, but in this case the aforementioned numbers we will be getting to shortly only validate what we’ve known for years. Todd Anderson’s Conn Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has been one of the […]

To all Best Winers, Was anyone hotter than Jonathan Maltus in 2009? Seriously, the guy batted a thousand and cemented his position as a player in the Bordeaux hierarchy with his Parker-impressing line-up in this classic vintage. Of course there are those who will be looking for his 99 point Le Dome (sold out, but […]

To all Best Winers, Have you seen the prices of Napa Valley Cabernet? Crazy! It almost appears as if the hard times that gut-punched the rest of the country never made their way, at least from the outside looking in, to the Napa Valley, where $100 bottles of wine are business as usual. Nicolette Christopher […]

To all Best Winers, Marsannay, you’ve been so good to me. Every time I get the “I can’t afford real Burgundy” blues you come along and reassure me that, yes, I can drink great Burgundy at a reasonable price and, yes, everything’s going to be alright.   Marsannay. Not a household name. Yet. But for […]

To all Best Winers, Castello di Ama was one of the first estates I had the pleasure of visiting in Chianti Classico. I remember pulling up to the winery and being warmly greeted by proprietress Lorenza Sebasti Pallanti, surrounded by the pitter patter of children’s footsteps.  Lots of smiling, running, just an all-around good vibe.  […]

To all Best Winers, Combine the former owner of Napa’s greatest Cult Cabernet, Screaming Eagle, with one of the world’s greatest winemaking consultants (also previously at Screaming Eagle), then toss in one of South Africa’s greatest wineries, and what do you get? Fabulous Rosé, of course. That’s right, instead of lush, impossible-to-get $1200 a bottle […]

To all Best Winers, Merlot, when vinified correctly, is one of the world’s greatest red wine grapes. Bordeaux’s most expensive wine, the fabled Chateau Petrus Pomerol, is 100% Merlot. It sells for $4000 a bottle. One of Italy’s greatest red wines, Tenuta dell’Ornellaia’s Masseto, is also 100% Merlot. Impossible to acquire at its $500 release […]

To all Best Winers, The 2012 En Primeur Bordeaux campaign is slowly winding down with the recent release of some of Bordeaux’s biggest names. From the “Right Bank” this week we saw the opening of La Conseillante (WS 92-95), Beausejour Duffau (WA 93-95+), a really smart buy with Larcis Ducasse (WA 93-95), Cheval Blanc (WS […]

To all Best Winers, More fun from the balmy, smokin’ hot slopes of Mount Etna! Sicily, literally, is on fire right now with this current eruption of wines from the terraced vineyards of Etna. Sales of our previous offering from Passopisciaro were brisk to say the least and everybody that bought the wines seemed to […]

To all Best Winers, Today? A trio of what could be the greatest German wine deals we’ve ever seen. Willi Schaefer’s wines from the precipitously steep vineyards around the town of Graach are some of the greatest Rieslings produced in the world. No simpler way to see it. Willi and his son Christoph work their […]