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  • Sale! 2017 Vega Escal Priorat DOQ

    2017 Vega Escal Priorat DOQ

    Original price was: $19.00.Current price is: $15.20.

    A 94-point bottle from one of Priorat’s great villages is a wine to be reckoned with—serious in every respect, usually including price. This dark, stony cradle of legends known as Gratallops is the source of iconic, collector-worthy bottlings from Clos Mogador, Clos de l’Obac, and L’Ermita, whose only equals for intensity and brawn are found…

  • Sale! 2017 Vermillion Red Wine Blend California

    2017 Vermillion Red Wine Blend California

    Original price was: $35.00.Current price is: $28.00.

    It shouldn’t be this easy to score an under-$40 bottle from a cult winemaker like Helen Keplinger. One of Napa’s most sought-after superstars, she’s graced the cover of Wine Spectator and was named Food & Wine magazine’s “Winemaker of the Year.” Her time as winemaker at Bryant Family Vineyard yielded a 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon that…

  • Sale! 2017 Vina Almaviva Puente Alto Chile

    2017 Vina Almaviva Puente Alto Chile

    Original price was: $145.00.Current price is: $72.50.

    “For the last 10 years, vintage after vintage, Almaviva vineyard has been quietly, consistently establishing a track record as one of the greatest wine producers in Chile, if not all of the world,” declared James Suckling, before honoring the 2017 Almaviva with a perfect 100-point score and naming it the “Wine of the Decade.” At…

  • Sale! 2017 Vina Caliterra Edicion Limitada A Malbec-Carmenere Colchagua Chile

    2017 Vina Caliterra Edicion Limitada A Malbec-Carmenere Colchagua Chile

    Original price was: $29.00.Current price is: $23.20.

    Robert Mondavi couldn’t resist Viña Caliterra.  He looked at Eduardo Chadwick, the vintner whose red wines would come to outshine 100-point bottles from Lafite-Rothschild and Margaux… He looked at the windswept hillsides of Chile’s Colchagua Valley, a region Wine Enthusiast called “more capable of producing world-class red wines” than any other in the land…  And…

  • Sale! 2017 Vista Reserve Red Wine Blend California

    2017 Vista Reserve Red Wine Blend California

    Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $16.00.

    Veteran winemaker Grant Long, Jr.—the man behind $100-per-bottle, mailing-list-only Napa Cabernets for Aonair and Reverie—leaned on his deep network of growers for this inaugural vintage of the gorgeously balanced Vista Reserve Red Wine. To complement Cabernet sourced primarily from Napa, hecontacted the best farmers he knew outside of the Valley, landing Malbec and Petit Verdot from the Sierra…

  • Sale! 2017 Woodlands Clementine Margaret River

    2017 Woodlands Clementine Margaret River

    Original price was: $36.00.Current price is: $28.80.

    For Napa or Bordeaux Cabernet-dominant blends, a 96-point score and a price like this one is an either/or proposition. Even in Margaret River—Australia’s epicenter of Cabernet value—you don’t often see those kinds of numbers side by side, which is why Woodlands’ outstanding Clémentine red virtually never leaves the country.  Yet we scored a tiny allocation…

  • Sale! 2017 Y. Rousseau Son of a Butcher Red Blend Napa Valley

    2017 Y. Rousseau Son of a Butcher Red Blend Napa Valley

    Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $16.00.

    Lavish and loaded with dense, muscular fruit, the 2017 Y. Rousseau Son of a Butcher Red Blend is a smash hit at every dinner table it graces. It’s got all the raffish charm and brawn of southwestern France—the home of the mighty Tannat grape—but with sunny California opulence turned up to 11. From a producer…

  • Sale! 2018 Anderson Conn Valley Vineyards Napa Valley Rose

    2018 Anderson Conn Valley Vineyards Napa Valley Rose

    Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $16.00.

    “A Wine That’s Too Damn Easy to Drink” What do you get when you mix Napa’s “Guide to the Good Life,” and Cabernet mastermind Todd Anderson with the market trend for rosé? “A wine that’s too damn easy to drink,” according to Anderson Conn Valley General Manager Jim Silver. “We haven’t released this yet, but…

  • Sale! 2018 Andis Painted Fields Amador Classico Sierra Foothills

    2018 Andis Painted Fields Amador Classico Sierra Foothills

    Original price was: $22.00.Current price is: $17.60.

    “Lunch is on us.” That was the first thing we blurted out after we shook on the incredible terms we’d negotiated for Andis’ 2018 Painted Fields Amador Classico. It was the least we could do, considering how much we’d relished the wine’s spice-infused, black-cherry opulence—and how much winemaking excellence went into the bottle. Philippe Melka…

  • Sale! 2018 Antiche Terre Amarone della Valpolicella

    2018 Antiche Terre Amarone della Valpolicella

    Original price was: $29.00.Current price is: $23.20.

    Mannerly and majestic, Antiche Terre is more than an awesome expression of Amarone della Valpolicella: It’s BY FAR our top-selling Amarone of all time. Every time we offer it, Wine Access members snatch it up like they’re going underground for a few decades—and we don’t blame them one bit. Balancing the herbaceous intensity and bittersweet…

  • Sale! 2018 Antiche Terre Baorna Amarone Della Valpolicella Veneto

    2018 Antiche Terre Baorna Amarone Della Valpolicella Veneto

    Original price was: $30.00.Current price is: $24.00.

    The Amarone category is synonymous with ripe power, massive structure, and the kind of Lamborghini-esque panache and drama that only the Italians can produce. Single-vineyard expressions—still rare, but increasingly common from elite producers since the popularity of Amarone exploded in the 1990s—take all that to the next level.  Not only are these some of the…

  • Sale! 2018 Azur Rose

    2018 Azur Rose

    Original price was: $36.00.Current price is: $28.80.

    99-point Winemaker’s “Côtes de California” An exquisitely crafted rosé can show the character and complexity of the great white wines of the world, and the first time you taste one, it can be a game-changer. The 2018 Azur Rosé is that kind of eye-opening rosé: a pale, salmon-colored California beauty that rivals the best of…

  • Sale! 2018 Bedrock Wine Company Old Vine Zinfandel California

    2018 Bedrock Wine Company Old Vine Zinfandel California

    Original price was: $24.00.Current price is: $19.20.

    Bedrock Wine Company is one of the hottest brands in California, and their 2018 Old Vine Zinfandel, from 100-point winemaker, California old-vine guru, and Master of Wine Morgan Twain-Peterson, is a stunner. Wine Spectator swooned over its “expressive black cherry, smoky anise and white pepper flavors.” We adore its red and black berries, cracked pepper, and allspice,…

  • Sale! 2018 Bernard Magrez Le Prélat Laudun Côtes-du-Rhône Villages France

    2018 Bernard Magrez Le Prélat Laudun Côtes-du-Rhône Villages France

    Original price was: $16.00.Current price is: $12.80.

    One of our secrets to finding the best values is to look at the names behind the label—or in today’s case, on it. Great producers make great wine, and we’re always searching out humbly-priced bottles from names that are usually associated with the pinnacle of drinking. You rarely see this level of nuance, complexity, and…

  • Sale! 2018 Bevan Cellars Ontogeny Napa Valley

    2018 Bevan Cellars Ontogeny Napa Valley

    Original price was: $95.00.Current price is: $47.50.

    It’s rare that we’re able to offer a Napa Cabernet whose score is higher than its price. But that changes today, with big news for lovers of Napa’s bold, full-throttle reds: We have an icon in the category, the 2018 Bevan Cellars Ontogeny, from the best vintage yet. A 99-point stunner and the #1 wine…

  • Sale! 2018 Big Basin Vineyards GSM Gabilan Mountains Monterey County

    2018 Big Basin Vineyards GSM Gabilan Mountains Monterey County

    Original price was: $39.00.Current price is: $31.20.

    When critic Antonio Galloni departed Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, he took with him a deep passion for the work of Bradley Brown and Big Basin Vineyards. “As good as these wines are—and they are often outstanding,” Galloni had written of the Santa Cruz Mountains winery. “My feeling is that Brown has just scratched the surface…

  • Sale! 2018 Blackbird Vineyards Arise Red Wine Napa Valley Half Bottle (375 mL)

    2018 Blackbird Vineyards Arise Red Wine Napa Valley Half Bottle (375 mL)

    Original price was: $26.00.Current price is: $20.80.

    Winemaker Aaron Pott has been responsible for producing some of the most coveted Bordeaux blends in the US and abroad, earning himself a Food & Wine Winemaker of the Year award and $500+ auction prices for his wines. From a selection of high-profile vineyards like Stagecoach and Star, he’s crafted an Arise blend packed full…

  • Sale! 2018 Bodegas Olarra Clasico Reserva Rioja

    2018 Bodegas Olarra Clasico Reserva Rioja

    Original price was: $22.00.Current price is: $17.60.

    Our Master Sommelier, Sur Lucero, brought this bottle into the office, the dust of Rioja still on his boots and bags under his eyes from a long flight. Pouring a dark ruby-red, the wine was an immediate sensation, knocking us off our feet with an intoxicating, classical bouquet of ripe black raspberry and plum tinged…

  • Sale! 2018 Bonpas Croix de Bonpas Cotes du Rhone

    2018 Bonpas Croix de Bonpas Cotes du Rhone

    Original price was: $16.00.Current price is: $12.80.

    A Rhône wine this bold and mouthwatering would have blown us away at three times the price and with zero press.  Not only does this 2018 Croix de Bonpas manage to push all our favorite Côtes du Rhône buttons at just $16 per bottle, it—incredibly—earned a whopping 96 points. But (luckily for us) not before…

  • Sale! 2018 Canonica a Cerreto Sandiavolo Toscana Tuscany

    2018 Canonica a Cerreto Sandiavolo Toscana Tuscany

    Original price was: $22.00.Current price is: $17.60.

    Canonica a Cerreto’s Sandiavolo never fails to light up the table. Grown on a world-renowned vineyard site and crafted by a winemaker Food & Wine called a leader of Italy’s “generation next,” it’s a 92-point crowd-pleaser that tends to beguile not just casual enthusiasts, but collectors too.  Winemaker Marco Bernabei has consulted for luminaries like…