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Super Tuscan of Opulence and Beauty Founded in 1977, Grattamacco is second only to Sassicaia as Bolgheri’s oldest Super Tuscan, blazing the path for Ornellaia, Gaja’s Ca’Marcanda and Antinori’s Guado al Tasso.The 2015 Grattamacco Bolgheri Rosso is an overachiever, delivering incredible pedigree at $29.99 per bottle. I was thrilled with the beauty and purity of…
At $20, the 2015 Hook & Ladder Tillerman Red Blend ranks among the best Sonoma Cabernet values we’ve tasted in years. To the delight of many Wine Access members, we recently learned that Sonoma legend Cecil De Loach came out of retirement to quietly make $20 wine in the Russian River Valley under his Hook &…
Stealing the Show in Florence The nearly four-inch thick beef steak at Florence’s Buca Lapi doesn’t go with just any wine. As we learned last month at the lamp-lit, 140-year-old restaurant, this chargrilled wonder pairs exceedingly well with a bottle of Il Borro’s coveted Super Tuscan. Bursting with dark berries and etched with violet and…
Never submitted for review, never released to the public, and never done before—that pretty much sums up the 2015 Italics Winegrowers Sixteen Appellations. To our knowledge—and please let us know if we’re mistaken—there is no other Cabernet-based wine that includes grapes from ALL 16 American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) in Napa Valley, at this quality level….
We’re very excited to be sharing a small allocation of the outstanding 2015 Jonata Fenix with you today. Viscous and muscular with brooding aromatics, it’s among the most seductive releases we’ve encountered yet from 100-point talent Matt Dees, “one of the most brilliant winemakers of his generation,” according to Vinous’s Antonio Galloni. Wines like the 2015…
“You absolutely can’t beat this unbelievable value from Tuscany.” That is the unambiguous endorsement from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate of the 2015 La Massa Toscana IGT. Giampaolo Motta has made La Massa one of the greatest Super Tuscan estates, thanks in large part to his hiring Bordeaux legend Stéphane Derenoncourt—who has been called “the world’s…
A Winemaking Legend’s Alexander Valley Red Blend If Miro Tcholakov is involved in a wine, we’re on board, and the latest testament to his mastery arrives bottled in the fleshy and decadent 2015 Trentadue La Storia Cuvée 32. This Sonoma red blend, builds and improves upon Miro’s 18 vintages of excellence. He uses grapes from…
Napa Valley collectors can break the bank trying to secure absolute first-class quality for the cellar. The 98-point 2015 Larkmead Vineyards LMV Salon Proprietary Red brings the rare kind of power and elegance that collectors chase, yet comes at a fraction of the price of its brethren. Even better, Wine Access members at an incredible price,…
Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s “Wow” Vintage The 2015 Le Clos du Caillou “Les Safres” is a richly textured, organically-grown Châteauneuf-du-Pape. When Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate hails a red wine “as seamless and sexy as they come,” and awards a stunning 93-95 points, we pay attention. Clos du Caillou’s regular Chateauneuf du Pape is highly regarded, but today;s “Les…
2015 was a dream year across France: Growers in every region marveled at the warm, dry weather that made farming easy and allowed them to pick at perfect ripeness—and once the wines started hitting the market, collectors got the memo FAST. That’s why we feel extremely lucky to have scored a cellar-steal from one of…
A Star is Born—This Red is Proof In the Napa Valley, the whispers have become increasingly audible. Randy Hester, who cut his teeth under 100-point winemakers Andy Erickson, Michel Rolland, and Helen Keplinger, is fast becoming a star. For now, his wines are what sommeliers dream of—under priced and over-delivering—but if the market has any…
Two-Time Winemaker of the Year’s Must-Case-Buy Portugal’s reputation for over-delivering on quality is built on wines like the 91-point 2015 Luis Duarte Rapariga da Quinta Colheita Seleccionada Alentejano. Luis Duarte is one of the country’s most decorated winemakers, having placed two wines in the Wine Enthusiast Top 100 — including one at #2 — and…
Our members can’t get enough M. Brugnon Champagne: It’s one of our top- and we sell TWICE as much Brugnon as we do the all-time-favorite bubbly, Billecart-Salmon. This is undoubtedly one of the jewels of the Brugnon collection. A back-vintage bottle from one of the top Champagne seasons in the past decade, it’s a vivid…
The Napa Insider’s Italian Inspired White I subscribe to the Massican mailing list for the same reason that many of Napa’s elite winemakers do, and it isn’t because Dan Petroski, 100-point winemaker from Larkmead and Massican’s founder, is the San Francisco Chronicle’s reigning Winemaker of the Year. It’s not because of the Michelin 3-star restaurants…
“Can you imagine if you’d discovered Jacques Selosse before anyone else?” No name in the Champagne world carries more cachet than Selosse. So when our friend—a Master of Wine who wrote a book about Champagne—asked us that question as he drove us alongside a hillside en route to Champagne Maurice Grumier, our interest was beyond…
Nittardi’s bold, richly regal 2015 Nectar Dei is a Super Tuscan value find we can’t stop crowing about. Boasting 95 points, born of prime terroir from a 1,000-year-old estate, it can confidently claim to belong in the conversation with regional standard-bearers like Ornellaia, Sassicaia, and Ilatraia. “The nose here is just the sort that pulls…
Just Don’t Call It Asado When the smoke started, it seemed like a good time to leave. It was Sunday, the day after a trade tasting on our last trip to South America, and Matías and his crew of Argentinian sommeliers had invited us over to drink some bubbly. But after an hour or so,…
A Napa Master Takes on Spain…And Wins The last place we expected to find a lavish, dense, voluptuous Priorat was in a downtown Napa tasting room. But that’s precisely where we stumbled across this spellbinding Spanish heavy-hitter, fragrant with blackberry, graphite, and violets. Propped against the antique mahogany bar in Alpha Omega’s new tasting room…
We jockeyed to be the exclusive U.S. importer of this “sensational” Super Tuscan the moment we tasted it on the Tuscan coast a couple of years ago. We had no idea the 2015 Podere La Pace Black Label would go on to earn a 94-point score, making our 60% discount off its $75 winery price…
Last spring, we watched a room full of guys who think nothing of uncorking a 1990 Ornellaia on a weeknight get excited about a value Tuscan red. The bottle was the ruby-hued 2015 Poggio del Moro Rosso, which captivated an audience of collectors with its muscular charisma and exquisitely aged structure. The complexity, power, and mystical…
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