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Perfectionist’s Oakville Force of Nature There are just two places you can purchase the Morlet Family Vineyards Force de la Nature Cabernet Franc other than Wine Access: The Michelin-3-star The French Laundry at $695 a bottle, or the Morlet mailing list, for $275. Today, in a delicious twist of fate, we have the last 10…
Morlet’s “Rockstar” Bottles Luc Morlet is a winemaker of impeccable credentials, a French-born master who has trained his formidable talents on California—and has a host of 100-point wines to show for it, having achieved perfection at both Peter Michael Winery, and his own Morlet Family Vineyards. Critic Jeb Dunnuck has summed it up very succinctly: Morlet…
Tanzer’s Highest Rated Under-$12 “long-time Sauvignon Blanc superstar” There are critics you can count on to be effusive with their praise and generous with their scores, even for marginal wines. Stephen Tanzer is not one of them. The founder of International Wine Cellar has always been a straight shooter, and his stingy scores are legendary. So…
A Reserve Cabernet of Serious Value Britt Nichols’ 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is one of the finest wines she’s ever made. Following its initial release, Wine Access clients confirmed as much, doling out 220 combined 4- and 5-star ratings. We weren’t surprised given the provenance of the deeply flavored, purple/black Cabernet Sauvignon that Britt used…
The Tireless Wizard of Ojai & His Pinot Noir Potions He’s the ultimate throwback. Maybe that’s why we keep going back. Nowhere on the coast is a winemaker so utterly obsessed with making signature, single-vineyard wines — with barely an eye for selling them — than up here in the Ojai hills. In three bare-bones,…
500 cases made—we have the last 100 Winemaker David Mahaffey owns two of our favorite insider-wines: Palladian in St. Helena, just below Meadowood resort, abutting Harlan’s sacred vines, and Olivia Brion, a tiny-production Pinot Noir from the Wild Horse Valley AVA. Just 15 minutes east of Napa, Wild Horse Valley fruit is in increasingly high…
Technically, we’d had the appointment for about a month. But realistically, we’d been looking forward to it for years. So on a beautiful August day, the Wine Access offices in the town of Napa emptied. Everyone in the company headed north on Silverado Trail to the Oakville AVA, to make our first official visit to…
The 2014 Orin Swift Papillon earned 94 points from Robert Parker, who called it a “full-bodied, unctuously textured, deep, rich pure wine to drink over the next 10-15+ years.” Phinney — the founder and winemaker of Orin Swift and the original creator of “The Prisoner” — is one of the great winemaking talents of our…
Every famous wine country has its icon bottlings, and few Italian reds have captured as many hearts as Ornellaia. One of the world’s most accomplished wines of the last 35+ years, the legendary Super Tuscan producer is often referred to as “Italy’s First Growth,” a nod to Ornellaia’s ability to stand alongside its $500-$800+ counterparts…
Bill Knuttel’s Claret-like Ottimino Zinfandels have garnered over 500 5-star ratings and reviews from Wine Access clients—one of the highest totals in our history for any winery’s under-$20 reds. Knuttel’s mastery at extracting single-parcel hits from some of Sonoma’s oldest vines is matched by his knack for crafting a cult master blend each year from…
We have just 20 three-bottle packs of this previously-unobtainable cult red from the cellars of Ovid in Napa Valley, and are offering them to a limited group of Wine Access members. Ovid’s waiting list, we’re told, is years long, and today we invite you to cut the line. As always, our allocation of the 2014…
Reserve Caliber Crianza Pioneering chef and proprietor José María Ruiz’s Pago de Carraovejas label has caught the attention of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate in a big way. Ruiz has produced “one of the most reliable Crianzas” in all of Spain, according to the Advocate, which pinned a truly impressive 93 points on this “nicely-balanced,” “full-bodied…
Once Every 20 Years in Oregon Nine years before the 1994 vintage that set Oregon Pinot ablaze on the world stage, Ken Wright drove to the Willamette Valley with 10 barrels of CALIFORNIA red wine, intent to release it under a new label, Panther Creek. The young Wright was unaware that he’d illegally transported wine…
Michelin-Starred Favorite Winemaker’s Bourgogne Blanc I convened our tasting panel after getting a call from a supplier, who told me that the rest of her 2014 Patrice Rion Bourgogne Blanc — a gorgeous white Burgundy from the vintage rated 97 points by Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate — was up for grabs. We tasted the wine,…
Spectator’s 94-97pt “Vintage of a Lifetime” on Freedom Hill In early April, we attended the first “Willamette” Pinot Noir auction, Oregon’s answer to Napa’s Premiere Napa Valley. Hundreds of collectors, retailers, and distributors came to The Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg loaded for bear, ready to drop thousands on 5-to-10-case lots of stunning single-vineyard…
Paul Jaboulet Aîné’s La Chapelle is one of the rare Northern Rhône reds that stands with the most collectible wines in the world. But to experience its full glory, you must wait. Painstakingly grown on the most sacred spots on Hermitage Hill, La Chapelle is a quintessential example of ageworthy Northern Rhone Syrah, and it…
A Dual 98-point Icon Our first-ever offer of Penfolds Grange, a mere 95 bottles of this 98-point “Icon,” as Wine Spectator called it on one 2014 cover, sold out instantly. Because of our unique relationship with Penfolds we secured a second allocation at a knockout price. Grange is one of the most revered and inimitable…
2014 Penya Côtes Catalanes: Parker’s Best Bargain Red of the Year The windswept hillsides of Languedoc-Roussillon have long given birth to the richest and most powerfully structured red wine bargains in the world. But having traveled the backroads from Montpelier to the outskirts of Perpignan for nearly 20 years, we’ve learned that while these two…
Revelations: High Above the Tuscan Fog Line Lucia Sanjust’s Petrolo sits, far from any other prestigious estates, in the center of a triangle formed by Florence, Siena, and Arezzo. When we first visited in 2013, we immediately got a sense of the passion and resolve that go into the upkeep of this world-class vineyard. But…
Philip Togni has made over 50 vintages on three continents, as well as studying under Bordeaux’s father of modern winemaking — Emile Peynaud. Togni made wines in the 1950s at Second Growth Château Lascombes in Margaux, then crossed the pond to work at Mayacamas Vineyards in Napa in the 1960s, before landing at Chappellet where…
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