Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Short and sweet today, as when you get the opportunity to sell one of the world’s greatest white wines at nearly half price not much more needs to be said. Today’s offer? Chateau de Beaucastel’s Chateaneuf du Pape Blanc Roussanne Cuvée Vieilles Vignes. Quite a mouthful, we understand. And the wine […]

To all Best Winers, We caught our first glimpse of summer here in SoCal last week and we were definitely caught with our pants down.  No white wine at home, scrambling to chill down some Beaujolais to pair up with the 48 hours of summer we ‘endured’. We got through it, but our lesson was […]

To all Best Winers, When it came time to belly up to the Chateau de la Negly booth at last year’s Vinisud Wine Show in Montpelier we were hoping to see some fireworks.  Of course we were going to get a tasting (drinking?) of the famed La Porte du Ciel from this estate as well […]

To all Best Winers, We aren’t winemakers. We seldom speculate on how many of the world’s greatest wines are produced. Winemakers have their secrets, and they generally don’t let people in on them because it’s, like, a secret or something.  We usually don’t care too much about the ‘how’ something great finds its way into […]

To all Best Winers, Over the last two decades Chateau Thieuley has become one of the premier estates of the Bordeaux AC appellation thanks to the brilliant leadership of the sister and sister team of Marie and Sylvie Courselle. And some of you will indeed notice the fact that this limited library release from the […]

To all Best Winers, “Egly-Ouriet remains one of Champagne’s leading small growers. From top to bottom these wines impress for their inimitable class.” -Antonio Galloni Francis Egly’s wines put the ‘grower’ in Grower Champagne. His Egly-Ouriet Champagnes were some of the first estate-bottled bubbles to be introduced to America and capture the essence of what […]

To all Best Winers, Everything about today’s offering is cool. The labels are cool, the wines are cool, even the owner/winemakers name, Adi Badenhorst, is cool. There’s almost a danger of this offering being too hip. In wine terms, Adi Badenhorst is one of South Africa’s up and coming rebel rock stars.  He left a […]

To all Best Winers, Nobody in the world is better at dealing with a difficult vintage than the Bordelaise.  Good thing, because in 2012, Mother Nature made all the chateaux in Bordeaux run her gauntlet. To watch Tristen’s in-depth interview/analysis of the vintage with Jeff Leve of the The Wine Cellar Insider, click here. So […]

To all Best Winers, There’s a reason why the Grand Cru red wines from Burgundy are usually pretty darn ‘Grand’. It’s because they are produced from the finest Pinot Noir vineyards in the world. Vineyards that, in certain special vintages, flex their muscle even further, producing wines that generate shivers, oohs, aahs and keep us […]

To all Best Winers, Wow. That’s about all I have to say regarding today’s offer. Coralie Goumarre has come a long way since we first started tasting her wines several years ago. Maybe it’s her ‘mad skills’, maybe it’s the greatness of the 2010 vintage. Maybe it’s a bit of both, but Good Lord are […]