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Who Knew? This year marks the 10th anniversary of WineAccess. Our first story was published on November 2, 2006, a short missive about three vintages of Michael Havens’ “Bourriquot,” a Right Bank blend that Robert Parker once called a “a Napa version of the famed Cheval Blanc.” While we were uncertain as to the potential…
Napa Elixir Meets Every Decadent Expectation “Drink graciously.” That’s the tagline for 1849 Wine Company, a Napa newcomer and producer of today’s 2013 “Anonymous” Red Blend. And you can, because we are offering 1,200 bottles at the lowest price in the nation by far—just $21.99 each at 45% off the release price. “Anonymous” is a…
The “Epic” 2013 Vintage: Albino Rocca’s 95pt 2013 Barbaresco Ronchi The week before VinItaly in April of 2016, we had the opportunity to connect with some of our favorite producers from Barolo and Barbaresco, including Sergio Germano, Elio Grasso, Luigi Pira, Moccagatta, and Albino Rocca. We were greeted at the door of Albino Rocca’s Piedmont…
Barolo and Burgundy Lovers’ Best Kept Secret For the third year in a row, Alpha Estate’s ancient-vine red earned 94 points from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate — a first for a Greek winery. Long considered the finest winery in all of Greece, Alpha has now earned its place alongside the elite of Napa, Bordeaux, and…
Wine Advocate: “This Is My Kind of Brunello” Upper-echelon Brunello di Montalcino is one of the things we get most excited about here at Wine Access. The boldness, vibrancy, and purity offered by the top bottlings make for ethereal wines that hit the sweet spot between pleasure, charisma, and elegance. High up on our list…
Channeling California’s Marquee Red Blend Sitting on a blind judging panel at the San Francisco International Wine Competition, our man Eduardo Dingler swirled an opaque ruby wine, then took in its massive aroma: dark cherry mingled with fresh bramble, cocoa, and espresso tones. It had all the telltales of one of the blockbuster names of…
Our #1 Client-Rated Napa Cabernet Half-Off Much like the rest of us, the Andersons consider the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Reserve to be the greatest vintage in the history of this blue-chip estate — arguing for 15-25 years of cellar slumber. After a second tasting, Antonio Galloni upgraded his score to 94 points calling it…
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…
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…
Cabernet Pinnacle of Antinori’s Patience in California The ultra-concentrated 2013 Antica Cabernet Sauvignon isthe best Antica produced to date, having garnered Trifecta 94-point ratings from Robert Parker and James Suckling and Wine Enthusiast. This watershed vintage release represents the culmination of years of fastidious efforts at Piero Antinori’s spectacular Antica Estate near the summit of…
Unprecedented Barolo Blend Captures Magic of 2013 It’s very rare to find a top-notch Barolo for under $30—rarer still to find one from an outstanding vintage like 2013, and that’s already drinking beautifully now. So you can imagine our excitement to have scored 100 cases of the 2013 Arnaldo Rivera Undicicomuni Barolo, the one-in-a-thousand shot…
Bryan Babcock’s $15/btl Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir?? If the name of your winery is Sea Smoke, Au Bon Climat, or Babcock and you make Pinot Noir in the Sta. Rita Hills, in nearly every vintage you’re challenged by daunting economics. Harvest often extends into late October, with yields rarely exceeding more than 2 tons…
The Once-Lost Clone Responsible for Legendary Napa Wines In 1938, the owner of Beaulieu Vineyard, Georges de Latour, made a trip to France to find a new winemaker who could perform a daunting task: Revive the California wine industry after Prohibition. The man he brought back made that task look modest. His name was Andre…
A Purisima Mountain Toast to Jean-Louis Chave In the summer of 1992, we met Tom Beckmen, an entrepreneur who had just sold his music company on the Tokyo stock exchange for several hundred million dollars. Beckmen is good at a lot of things, but retirement didn’t turn out to be one of them. Almost immediately,…
“Grenache? It’s like my kids! It misbehaves!” — Steve Beckmen on Purisima Mountain It had always been a mystery to us. While thousands of acres on the coast are planted to Syrah, little high-quality vineyard land has been devoted to Grenache, the more floral and voluptuous variety that is the backbone of the great wines…
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…
“Making Amends” with WineAccess Members The first world-class Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon we tasted was the 1974 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Reserve. Crafted by Russian-born André Tchelistcheff, the most influential winemaker of his time, the BV Reserve was a wine of style and elegance. What it gave away in concentration and power, it made…
Italy’s Secret World-Class Bubbly Among sparkling wine enthusiasts, it is known that Franciacorta makes bottles capable of rivaling the famed estates of Champagne. What is less well understood is that the Italian region, an hour outside Milan, actually abides by even stricter requirements than the rigorous French AOC. Maximum allowed yields in Franciacorta come in lower than…
Wine Advocate’s 94pt Bernardus Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir — DON’T Tell Your Friends! Robert Parker called Pisoni Vineyard “the grand cru of the Santa Lucia Highlands.” Since the early 1980s, some of the most lavish, flamboyant Pinot Noirs in California have been drawn from fruit harvested from this extraordinary vineyard, perched at 1300 feet in…
Rosella’s Vineyard – Santa Lucia Highlands ‘Grand Cru’ After honing his winemaking toolkit with stints at legendary Burgundy producers Leflaive, Lafon, and Morey, Dean De Korth returned home to Monterey County in the nineties with an enviable C.V. and the determination to make world-class wine on the Central Coast. Growers Gary Pisoni and Gary…
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