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  • Sale! 2020 Paydirt Going For Broke Red Wine California

    2020 Paydirt Going For Broke Red Wine California

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

    “Headed your way. Blue shorts, gray tee-shirt. Not my winemaker uniform!” Duckhorn alum and Coup de Foudre winemaker Kent Jarman gave us the heads-up before we met up at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market, but there was no way we were going to miss him—especially carrying the hedonistic Paydirt Going for Broke Red Wine.  A brooding…

  • Sale! 2020 Remedy Set: Making The Most Of Your Quiet Time

    2020 Remedy Set: Making The Most Of Your Quiet Time

    Original price was: $197.00.Current price is: $98.50.

    As far as years go, 2020 is a stunner. We give you permission to interpret that however you see fit. With the pandemic upending all the things we normally do, it’s like the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher just keep lobbing lemon after lemon. Thankfully, there’s wine—the perfect tonic after your gin and tonic….

  • Sale! 2020 Remedy Set: Sprucing Up Your Home-Cooked Meals

    2020 Remedy Set: Sprucing Up Your Home-Cooked Meals

    Original price was: $153.00.Current price is: $76.50.

    As far as years go, 2020 is a stunner. We give you permission to interpret that however you see fit. With the pandemic upending all the things we normally do, it’s like the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher just keep lobbing lemon after lemon. Thankfully, there’s wine—the perfect tonic after your gin and tonic….

  • Sale! 2020 Remedy Set: The Everlasting Election Season Sipper

    2020 Remedy Set: The Everlasting Election Season Sipper

    Original price was: $56.00.Current price is: $28.00.

    As far as years go, 2020 is a stunner. We give you permission to interpret that however you see fit. With the pandemic upending all the things we normally do, it’s like the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher just keep lobbing lemon after lemon. Thankfully, there’s wine—the perfect tonic after your gin and tonic….

  • Sale! 2020 Remedy Set: The Instant New Hobby

    2020 Remedy Set: The Instant New Hobby

    Original price was: $143.00.Current price is: $71.50.

    As far as years go, 2020 is a stunner. We give you permission to interpret that however you see fit. With the pandemic upending all the things we normally do, it’s like the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher just keep lobbing lemon after lemon. Thankfully, there’s wine—the perfect tonic after your gin and tonic….

  • Sale! 2020 Stephane Ogier Le Temps Est Venu Cotes du Rhone Rhone Valley

    2020 Stephane Ogier Le Temps Est Venu Cotes du Rhone Rhone Valley

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

    Stéphane Ogier is one of the hottest 100-point winemakers in all of France, and if you want to experience his bar-setting Rhônes, you have a few options: You can spend $300+ on one of his collector-coveted Côte-Rôties, you can shell out double that to enjoy one with a MICHELIN-starred meal in NYC in Paris—or you…

  • Sale! 2020 Sullivan Estate Coeur de Vigne Rutherford Napa Valley

    2020 Sullivan Estate Coeur de Vigne Rutherford Napa Valley

    Original price was: $79.00.Current price is: $39.50.

    Jim Sullivan knew he’d gotten his hands on some of the best vineyard land in California. The late Napa Valley icon settled on the dusty, gravelly Rutherford Bench back in 1972, four years before the Judgment of Paris made Napa a household name. It would be two decades before Rutherford would earn AVA status and…

  • Sale! 2020 Tenuta degli Dei Le Redini Toscana

    2020 Tenuta degli Dei Le Redini Toscana

    Original price was: $25.00.Current price is: $20.00.

    When you open your first bottle of Tenuta Degli Dei’s Le Redini, make sure your closest connoisseur friends are close by. Ask them how much they think it costs. The product of a stupendous vintage and a member-favorite winery—owned by the notoriously detail-oriented Roberto Cavalli—the 2020 Le Redini shows off the kind of quality-to-price ratio…

  • Sale! 2020 Tenuta Luce Luce Toscana

    2020 Tenuta Luce Luce Toscana

    Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $55.00.

    When it comes to Super Tuscan icons, Chianti Classico has Tignanello, Bolgheri has Sassicaia, and Montalcino—the home of Brunello—has Luce. Tenuta Luce is Italy’s version of Opus One, founded by Robert Mondavi and the Frescobaldi clan to showcase the terroir of Montalcino using Brunello-clone Sangiovese plus Merlot. It’s a collectible that will thrill lovers of…

  • Sale! 2020 Tenuta Sette Ponti Oreno Toscana

    2020 Tenuta Sette Ponti Oreno Toscana

    Original price was: $90.00.Current price is: $45.00.

    The Super Tuscan landscape was once teeming with steals. Now, the top bottles have hit the big time, price-wise: Ornellaia and Sassicaia go for $250+, Solaia’s pushing $400, and Masseto’s on another planet, with the iconic Merlot commanding over $900. It’s enough to make collectors wonder where to look. We’d point the savviest of them…

  • Sale! 2020 Three Wine Company Old Vines Field Blend Contra Costa County

    2020 Three Wine Company Old Vines Field Blend Contra Costa County

    Original price was: $18.00.Current price is: $14.40.

    Fields once covered Contra Costa County, an area today known better for suburban sprawl. But between the high-rises and strip malls, Matt Cline has been working tirelessly to maintain the vineyards that offer a window into the Contra Costa of yore. There are no trellises, rose bushes, or mansion-like tasting rooms. In these vineyards, there’s…

  • Sale! 2020 Xavier Vignon Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Cotes du Rhone

    2020 Xavier Vignon Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Cotes du Rhone

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

    We read the trades as diligently as ever.  From the big ones—Advocate, Spectator, Vinous, Dunnuck, et al.—down to insider rags read by about 11 winemakers and viticulturists, we’re always scanning the publications, looking for a new name to jump off the page.  But we still haven’t hit the jackpot like we did with Xavier Vignon….

  • Sale! 2021 Arnot-Roberts Red Wine California

    2021 Arnot-Roberts Red Wine California

    Original price was: $68.00.Current price is: $34.00.

    Duncan Arnot and Nathan Roberts were practically revolutionaries when they launched their eponymous winery in 2001. They were the vanguard of the “New California,” making throwback wines whose structure, freshness, and purity recalled the great Cali wines of the 70s and 80s, and the Burgundy and Bordeaux that inspired those. Now, with their wines on…

  • Sale! 2021 Baracchi O'Lillo Toscana

    2021 Baracchi O’Lillo Toscana

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

    We had to slip past eager importers and sommeliers at Vinitaly to get our first taste of Baracchi’s O’Lillo years ago. We locked it in that day—and it’s a good thing we did, because a few weeks later, James Suckling sent cost-minded Italian collectors into a frenzy when he made O’Lillo his top-rated bargain of…

  • Sale! 2021 Beckmen Vineyards Cuvee Le Bec Santa Ynez Valley

    2021 Beckmen Vineyards Cuvee Le Bec Santa Ynez Valley

    Original price was: $27.00.Current price is: $21.60.

    From Wine Access head writer Pete Holland:  The first case of wine I bought in my life was Beckmen Vineyards’ Cuvée Le Bec. It was 2008, and it was a serious thrill. Visiting the tasting room, forking over what felt like a serious sum, carrying my box past tourists buying a token bottle or two—it…

  • Sale! 2021 Bodegas Rafael Cambra Casa Sosegada Valencia

    2021 Bodegas Rafael Cambra Casa Sosegada Valencia

    Original price was: $28.00.Current price is: $22.40.

    Twenty-odd years ago, anyone who only paid attention to Spain’s blue-chip regions would have been mystified by Rafael Cambra. He had his pick of locales for his own project, but he eschewed big names like Rioja and Ribera del Duero. Instead, he bought a vineyard in the southeastern corner of the country, between Valencia and…

  • Sale! 2021 Bodegas y Vinedos Raul Perez Ultreia Saint Jacques Tinto Bierzo

    2021 Bodegas y Vinedos Raul Perez Ultreia Saint Jacques Tinto Bierzo

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

    “I’ve been following the wines for 20+ years now,” wrote Wine Advocate’s Spanish maven Luis Gutierrez in his eighth article about Spain’s Bierzo region. “There’s never been better and more interesting wines here than now.”  In the early 2000s, Bierzo surged onto the US wine radar with serious yet deliciously drinkable under-$20 reds that pair…

  • Sale! 2021 Château d'Yquem Sauternes

    2021 Château d’Yquem Sauternes

    Original price was: $380.00.Current price is: $190.00.

    Yquem is perhaps the most revered wine in the world.  It’s so unique in its quality that, when the wines of Sauternes and Barsac were classified in 1855, it got its own category: Most of the great sweet wines of Sauternes are labeled “Premier Grand Cru Classé,” but only Yquem carries the “Supérieur” distinction. For…

  • Sale! 2021 Château d'Yquem Sauternes (375 mL)

    2021 Château d’Yquem Sauternes (375 mL)

    Original price was: $185.00.Current price is: $92.50.

    Yquem is perhaps the most revered wine in the world.  It’s so unique in its quality that, when the wines of Sauternes and Barsac were classified in 1855, it got its own category: Most of the great sweet wines of Sauternes are labeled “Premier Grand Cru Classé,” but only Yquem carries the “Supérieur” distinction. For…

  • Sale! 2021 Chateau Minuty Rosé Prestige Cotes de Provence

    2021 Chateau Minuty Rosé Prestige Cotes de Provence

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

    There are VERY few rosés that belong in the same sentence as the words “world-class.”  Minuty is one of them.  The Provençal icon can be found on the wine lists at the world’s top French restaurants. Its sun-kissed vibrancy, crystal-clear red fruit purity, incredible subtlety, and delicate floral complexity define the Côtes de Provence and…