Past Offers

To all Best Winers, Borders. Boundaries. Fences. Whatever you want to call them, they carry a certain power, whether they’re physical or imaginary.  It’s crazy to think that a simple line could be the difference-maker between a wine that sells for $350 and another that sells for $30. But it does, as we have seen […]

To all Best Winers, Can a $70 or $80 bottle of white wine be considered a deal? We posed that question to ourselves recently as we were discussing the 2010 vintage Chablis wines from William Fevre.  Most of us said, “Heck, yeah they’re a deal!” knowing the quality behind the label, the strength of the […]

To all Best Winers, As the Hawkes winery website so bluntly states: “(Jake Hawkes) occupations were various. A construction worker in Rodarte, New Mexico, nightclub doorman in New York, woodchopper in California, grape-picker in Australia, alcoholic in Mexico, metal worker in Oakland, English teacher in San Marcos, Texas, but one common thread ran through all […]

To all Best Winers, Maxime Cheurlin is a 20 year old wunderkind who is now in charge of one of Vosne Romanée’s greatest estates, Domaine Georges Noellat. Georges was Maxime’s grandfather and, since his passing in the late 90’s, Maxime’s grandmother was in charge of the domaine, selling the vast majority of their production to […]

To all Best Winers, Observation. The 2009 white Bordeaux wines kind of came and went without a whole lot of fanfare, even though critics like Parker used such terms as ‘dazzling’ and ‘fascinating’ when describing the vintage. Problem is, that was all that we heard from the pundits until the wines were actually released. All […]

To all Best Winers, I love it when a wine is good. I really love it when a wine is great. And I really, really love it when, in the moment, a wine is better than great. World? Meet better than great.  The Domaine des Bosquets Gigondas 2010 completely rent asunder all of my already- […]

To all Best Winers, “I know some readers will find it hard to believe, but the 2011 Nostre Pais Blanc’s aromas and rich, honeyed, full-bodied texture reminded me of the famous white Chateauneuf du Pape made by Beaucastel, which sells for three or more times the price. An amazing blend of 90% Grenache Blanc, 5% […]

To all Best Winers, What to do when you’re handed the keys to one of the greatest Nebbiolo vineyards in the world? You learn to drive it, or else you’ll crash. That’s why Olek Bondonio, proprietor of Azienda Agricola Olek Bondonio took it upon himself to work at other wineries around the world, honing his […]

To all Best Winers, Morocco? Really? Yup. Why can’t Morocco make great wine? Is there some kind of law that says all African wine has to stink? We know for a fact that full-bodied, fiery African wines had been (currently are?) the secret blending agent in many a feeble French vin de table for decades. […]

To all Best Winers, None other than Mr. James Suckling himself cruised into the Best Wines Online offices the other day to film several installments of ‘Wine Challenge’, his online video series where he’s presented a series of wines, served blind, by the country’s premier wine merchants, who in turn have to bite their nails […]