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2012 Anderson’s Conn Valley “Right Bank” — Parker’s “Cheval Blanc Look-Alike” In July 2012, we trekked the manicured rows above St. Helena, where Conn Creek flows off of Howell Mountain. We’ve visited Napa Valley every summer since the early 1990s, but we had never seen so many perfectly formed clusters. It was as if Walt…
Bryant Estate is one of the few wineries that elicits agreement among wine collectors around the world: The name evokes the absolute pinnacle of Napa Valley winemaking, and a single bottle will sparkle as the crown jewel of any cellar. And today, we’re thrilled to bring you a library release from the Bryant Estate Cellars on…
A Stone’s Throw from Gaja After earning a degree in enology, Angelo Gaja began working at the family winery in 1961. He would introduce French concepts to winemaking in Barbaresco, with the use of barrique, hybrid bottle formats, longer corks, and even clonal selection in the vineyard. These concepts would catapult Barbaresco to the heights…
“Skyscraper-like texture and fabulous purity … Close to Perfection” — Robert Parker When we returned from Bordeaux in April 2015, we, like so many other importers and négociants, tried to get our arms around an irregular 2014 vintage. Still, the biggest news on the Place de Bordeaux had nothing to do with the en primeur…
A 94pt Click on a Macbook Air: Robert Parker Shocks the World We’ve been working in the wine trade for almost 35 years, ever since we blew off law school in the fall of 1981. Our first purchase of Classified Growth Bordeaux was on the futures market of 1983, when we locked into a few…
We firmly stand behind Robert Parker’s statement that Château Palmer “should be upgraded to a Médoc first-growth.” Here’s why. Château Palmer racked up 96 points from Parker in 2012 who called it “one of the vintage’s most remarkable efforts” and a “superstar.” Palmer positively crushed Château Lafite-Rothschild (91/$563), while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with its rival Château…
Under-$20 Right Bank Bordeaux As It Should Be …. But Rarely Is Since January 27th, 2015, when we posted our first story from the Place de Bordeaux, giving the WineAccess membership the opportunity to purchase the highest-rated 2009s, 2010s, and 2012s directly from the cellars where they were bottled, we’ve become reacquainted with America’s age-old…
David and Goliath on the Right Bank The term most often used to describe the wine that brought fame to Jean-Luc Thunevin and his wife Murielle — “garagiste” — doesn’t quite do the job. Yes, they worked out of a borrowed garage to create the first batches of Valandraud in the early 1990s, lacking the…
Parker’s 2012 Bordeaux Mea Culpa In early 2015, Robert Parker quietly announced that he’d be revisiting Bordeaux’s 2012s. The critic many have come to call “The King” wrote that, compared to early tasting notes from Pomerol, St.-Émilion, and Pessac-Léognan, the vintage was far more impressive than it had first appeared. In his revised 2012 vintage…
#1 Sommelier in America’s Favorite: 93pt Matthews Claret Michael Madrigale first honed his palate at Burgundy Wine Company on West 26th Street, before landing a cellar job at Domaine de l’Arlot in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Years later, Madrigale was recruited by chef Daniel Boulud, who recognized Michael’s talent for matching unusual wines with Boulud’s classic French cuisine and entrusted…
2013 Poster Child — Anderson’s Conn Valley “Right Bank” POWERHOUSE By now, WineAccess members are familiar with the praise heaped on Napa’s 2013 vintage from all directions. Conditions were as perfect as they come, from bud and bloom to fruit set, maturation, and harvest. In the second consecutive drought year, not a drop of rain…
Parker’s Wine Advocate: “Impossible to Resist” Bob Betz, a Master of Wine, is Washington’s kingpin winemaker — a title that was his long before Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate proclaimed his wines to be “the best of Washington State.” Betz’s 2013 “Clos de Betz” earned 94 points from the Advocate, which gushed, calling it “sexy, supple,”…
The Argentinian Vintage Stephen Tanzer’s Been Waiting For Stephen Tanzer remains the world’s most eloquent critic — and its stingiest. Writing ever-restrained prose from his perch on the Upper East Side, Tanzer has tended to reserve his toughest judgments for the wines of Argentina. Most years, Tanzer’s ratings for Mendoza’s wine haven’t ventured outside the…
Stags Leap’s Clos du Val: Wine Advocate’s “Greatest Vintage in 37 Years” It used to be that even in the most exceptional vintages, even the most revered estates in Napa Valley would craft special blends for 5-star hotel chains, hedging their bets against a down market. But with the high-end market never more robust, that…
The “Outstanding” 2013 Vintage and Parker’s “Lafite-Rothschild of Washington State” In Napa Valley, many growers and winemakers will tell you that allowing fruit to shrivel just a little bit before harvest appeals to those who appreciate bigger extraction and New World opulence. The Bordelaise, however, will tell you the opposite — shrivel equates to over-ripening….
From Silver Oak to Stags Leap: 92-94pt Matthews Claret at 63rd and Broadway When Wine Enthusiast named Michael Madrigale the #1 Sommelier in America, many in Manhattan wondered what took the magazine so long. A half-dozen years ago, Daniel Boulud discovered the acuity of Madrigale’s palate and lured Michael to Bar Boulud. The lists at…
When Your “Second Wine” Lands on the Top 100 If you want to know how and why a Claret from Washington’s Columbia Valley landed at #27 on Wine Spectator’s most recent Top 100 list, you have to go back at least to 1999. That’s when Aryn Morell passed up a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering…
Highest-Rated Italian Red from the 2013 Vintage Soon after leaving University of Wisconsin’s School of Journalism, James Suckling moved back west in pursuit of a newspaper career. He responded to an advertisement from a brand-new magazine called Wine Spectator based in San Diego with 800 subscribers. Suckling was hired by Marvin Shanken in 1981, and,…
Thomas Keller’s French Laundry and Parker’s Greatest Napa Valley Vintage in 37 Years At age 15, Thomas Keller found himself washing dishes at the Palm Beach Yacht Club for $4/hour. But even as he sponged plates and polished silverware, young Keller couldn’t keep his eyes off “the line.” Several months later, he was promoted, trading…
“Gold Medal” quality in Pauillac’s 2014 Classic Vintage The early scuttlebutt on the 2014 vintage in Bordeaux suggests that it’s the best vintage since the watershed 2010. After tasting more than 200 samples of the vintage at Cipriani in NYC two weeks ago, we wholeheartedly agree with the likes of Robert Parker and Wine Spectator….
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