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The Sommelier and the ‘Soup Nazi’ We met Michael Madrigale for dinner not far from Bar Boulud, where he shot to fame as Wine Enthusiast’s #1 Sommelier in America. Michael poured a 2006 Patrick Jasmin Côte-Rôtie and proceeded to tell us about the last gift from the “Soup Nazi” of NYC importers. “I was told…
Spectator’s 92pt Rocca Winery Grigsby Vineyard Syrah … A Buster Posey Throw from the Stags Leap Line In 1996, Mary Rocca purchased a 21-acre property situated in the northwest corner of the intersection of Yountville Cross Road and the Silverado Trail, just a Buster Posey toss from the Stags Leap line. The soils were comprised…
Called a “prodigious effort that possesses overflowing richness and depth,” in The Wine Advocate’s 99-point review, this is a full-bodied Syrah that defines the heights attainable on California’s Central Coast. *Due to the exclusive nature of this limited release, all offers are final sale. Some labels may have minor superficial damage such as scuffs or…
Helen Turley and 94-Point Martinelli Zio Tony Ranch In critical circles, Helen Turley is nothing short of a force of nature, having earned 90 reviews of 96 points or more from Wine Spectator and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate — and seven perfect 100-point scores. Turley’s résumé? As Wine Spectator reported in 2010, “Turley was instrumental in creating the mystique that became the…
This impeccable bottling is far more thrilling than the name would suggest, garnering glowing reviews from The Wine Advocate for its “poise and underlying energy.” *Due to the exclusive nature of this limited release, all offers are final sale. Some labels may have minor superficial damage such as scuffs or minor staining. Bottles will be…
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate summed up this extended-cellar release from the unmatched Sine Qua Non perfectly: “About as good as it gets across the board, these singular, incredible wines are the result of an obsessive attention to detail at all stages of the wine making process.” *Due to the exclusive nature of this limited release,…
Rare Lake County Gem Reveals Shadows of First Growth Quality Today’s 2010 Alienor Cote de Castelero is one of the most profound library releases we’ve ever laid our hands on. The last 100 cases in the world have sat, quietly resting, for almost a decade, and these mint-condition bottles of Syrah are showing the intense…
Manfred Krankl has again lived up to his lofty reputation, bottling a Syrah that “seems to gain intensity with time in the glass, leading to a huge, explosive, saline-infused finish,” says Antonio Galloni, and is “straight up gorgeous” according to Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. *Due to the exclusive nature of this limited release, all offers…
A 5-star winery and its 95-point Shiraz Australia’s Frankland River is half a world away from Sonoma’s Russian River. But both exert a crucial influence on winegrowing, with the Frankland River, towards the southern tip of the vast expanse of Western Australia, doing for Shiraz what the Russian River does for Sonoma’s Pinot Noir and…
Purity and Youthful Hedonism in the Northern Rhône Perhaps Robert Parker was hedging his bets when he wrote: “There is no winemaker on planet Earth who has produced so many compelling wines, irrespective of vintage conditions, as Marcel Guigal.” Maybe, in some other yet undiscovered galaxy, Parker got wind of another Frenchman crafting more extraordinary…
A Helen Turley Script at Martinelli Zio Tony Ranch In the early 1880s, at just 16 and 19 years of age, Luisa Vellutini and Giuseppe Martinelli eloped, leaving a small village in Tuscany for Northern California. Giuseppe quickly landed a job planting a vineyard for a landowner in Forestville, saving nearly every nickel he made….
Bob Lindquist’s Qupé — An Early Champion Of American-Made Syrah If you asked us to list some of our favorite American Syrah producers, we’d tell you about Ann Colgin and Joey Tensley, and about the few times we’ve been lucky enough to try Elaine and Manfred Krankl’s Sine Qua Non. We’d tell you about our…
Jeb Dunnuck effusively praised this release for its “perfect overall balance,” with “plenty of underlying structure,” in his 98-point review for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, nicely summarizing this “blockbuster-styled” Syrah. *Due to the exclusive nature of this limited release, all offers are final sale. Some labels may have minor superficial damage such as scuffs or…
Fruit Bombs, Take a Back Seat to This Syrah For lovers of powerful California Cabernet Sauvignon, it’s getting harder and harder to find quality that won’t break the bank. Today’s 2012 Skylark Syrah from Rodgers Creek Vineyard is a show-stopping alternative— a wine thateasily competes on complexity and power with Bordeaux-variety wines selling for four…
Bargain Shiraz off 120-Year-Old Vines! Vines that are 120 years old produce great grapes — they just don’t produce many of them. The ancient block of Shiraz at Nottage Hill in McLaren Vale, planted in 1891 by Sir Thomas Hardy, produces less than a half-ton per acre. Andrew Hardy, best known as the man hand-picked…
Deep Roots and Biodynamics on Purisima Mountain: Parker and Galloni RAVE In July 2013, we spent three days at Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona. Sedona, if you haven’t been, is high desert, the land of red rocks, vortexes, and mysticism. We’d stayed at Enchantment seven years earlier during the summer months (when the rooms are…
Côte-Rôtie “Volar de Noche” on the Santa Barbara Coast Over the past several years, we’ve focused considerable attention on the Syrahs grown on the Santa Barbara coast. Unlike the more bombastic renderings coming out of Paso Robles, where torrid summers tend to blister fragile clusters and make for Port-like reds, the top Syrah vineyards in…
Sta. Rita Hills’ best-kept secret NO MORE Around this time of year, the annual “best-of” lists start falling fast and heavy and causing those of us in the wine business an office-holiday-party-sized headache. The sleeper hits and niche finds we’ve discreetly kept to ourselves for months are inevitably outed, driving up demand and prices and…
A Diary of 126 Years of Shiraz Excellence The diaries start from Day One: Feb. 2, 1891, the day Herbert and Frederick Kay took possession of the McLaren Vale property they’d bought a few months earlier. They tell of the backbreaking labor required of these tough Australian pioneers to plant 90 acres of vines in…
Screaming Eagle, Sine Qua Non, Kind Cellars … and a 168mph Fastball On April 1, 1985, Sports Illustrated published a cover story about a walk-on at the NY Mets training camp, a pitcher who had already been deemed unhittable. Headlined “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch,” author George Plimpton reported that Hayden Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch…
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