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To all Best Winers, We believe there can be multiple tiers when it comes to the quality of an ‘entry level’ wine.  For example, La Goulée is an entry level Bordeaux for those who already drink some pretty serious stuff, as opposed to something like, maybe, Mouton Cadet, which is built for folks who might […]

To all Best Winers, Azienda Agricola Paitin co-proprietor Giovanni Pasquero-Elia is a really nice guy.  People like him. He doesn’t burn bridges. He’s congenial, friendly and, along with his brother Silvano, has produced some of the finest Barbaresco wines in the entire zone, especially considering the reasonable prices charged. But you could tell Giovanni was […]

To all Best Winers, The Wine Advocate 2010 Bordeaux scores are out and, while many merchants (including myself) are out chasing the 100 point ‘surprises’, I have to keep reminding myself that the ‘meat’ of any great vintage lies in its values. So,  knowing the quality of the year going in, I managed to secure […]

To all Best Winers, “At this price, it would be hard to find a better Cabernet. 90 points” -Neal Martin, erobertparker.com #204 I thought I’d get the obvious sales tool out of the way early. Fact is some of you may be clicking through right now. Great! We love it.  But for those of you […]

To all Best Winers, Josh Klapper gets it. You can hear it in the way he talks about his wines. No fuss, no pretense, he merely explains to you how he goes about making some of the greatest Pinot Noir in the state.  After his ‘restaurant years’, picking up some serious wine chops at Daniel […]

To all Best Winers, OK gang, its last call on the amazing 2010 Saint Siffrein Chateauneuf du Pape. Our killer price on this 94 point gem from Robert Parker has caused a stir throughout the wine industry. In fact, we are actually getting offers to buy every last bottle of our remaining stocks. Must be […]

To all Best Winers, Ok, this is cool. To celebrate the winery’s 150th anniversary, the house of Louis Jadot in Burgundy decided to put together a special cuvee from their treasured vineyards in their hometown appellation of Beaune. It is designed, we think, to provide a snaphot of the true character of Beaune, pieced together […]

“The Villa Symposia 2008 Coteaux du Languedoc L’Equilibre… is still as usual largely Syrah, around 30% Carignan, with a bit of Grenache, matured in one-year-old barriques and demi-muids. Dark cherry and blackberry of palate-staining intensity…here there is a savory saline streak that really gets your juices flowing to meet the juiciness of the berries half […]

Can you ever have too much half price Bordeaux? We say no. But we’re biased… Chateau Haut Brisson is the home away from home for Peter Kwok, the current owner. Peter has done well for himself conducting business in Asia and, accordingly, had the means to take this once moribund chateau and restore it back […]

Funny. I never knew until I started doing some research that the French translation for a ‘second wine’ from a Bordeaux estate is, in fact, second vin. How easy is that? For years I was thinking you had to call it a deuxieme vin or something fancy like that. No, second vin is just fine. […]