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New Allocation and Q&A with a Next-Generation Duncan of Silver Oak After a day-long visit with Matt Duncan at his family’s Silver Oak property in Alexander Valley, we returned to Wine Access HQ with a recording of our interview with Matt, and a newly-minted allocation of the 2014 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. A…
This Simonnet-Febvre Crémant de Bourgogne is the object of our current obsession. It’s a wine that was unfamiliar to us until Louis Latour’s Bernard Retornaz sent us a bottle and told us to meet him at Point Reyes for oysters and slabs of Cowgirl Creamery Mt. Tam triple crème. You bet we obliged. Bursting with…
Napa Cabernet: Galloni’s “Best Value” On the eastern slopes of the valley between St. Helena and Rutherford, you’ll find the Snowden family ranch, just 23 acres of vines surrounded by 160 acres of woods and pasture the Snowdens treasure. A stone’s throw away lay the vineyards of Phelps, Sloan, and Seavey. In 2014, the Napa…
“Close Your Eyes … Just Smell” The first time was in Alsace. We were walking the vines above the Hansel and Gretel hamlet of Wettolsheim with our friend, winemaker François Barmès. It was October 2008 and after a dry growing season, the small-berry clusters of Pinot Gris were golden. The sun was shining, the leaves…
2014 Oregon Pinot Noir: “No Finer Value in the World” We first tasted the stunning 2014 Oregon Pinot Noirs from barrel in April of 2015. Wine Spectator confirmed our inkling, dropping a blazing 94-97 points on the vintage overall, fueling the fire every week with each new score of 94 points or more. Soon after,…
Winemaker Mark Vlossak’s “Earth-Shattering” 2014 Pinot Noirs In August 2015, we traveled to Willamette Valley and tasted Oregon’s 2014 Pinot Noirs just before they went into bottle. We listened to one grower after another describe a miracle growing season that was sensational both qualitatively and quantitatively. Before we flew home, we made a gigantic bet…
We’re deeply humbled and also sincerely excited to present our first-ever offer from Staglin Family Vineyard. In 2011, Master Sommelier Sur Lucero met Shannon Staglin for the first time. She was dining at Oenotri in Napa, where Sur was working the floor, and she beautifully described the kind of white wine she wanted. It sounded to…
Chapoutier and Guigal’s Loss. Your Gain. Wine Spectator dropped 94 points on Michel and Stephane Ogier’s 2014 Condrieu La Combe de Malleval, calling it “refreshing and vivacious,” with “excellent energy,” and “a rarity.” If you find a Chapoutier or Guigal Condrieu, be prepared to shell out $180-225 per bottle. Instead, we have 400 bottles of…
Kid Gloves Come Off For No-Holds-Barred Angeli For years running, WineAccess has been gobbling up Sashi Moorman’s supercharged Syrahs at a record pace. You’d think after sending thousands of cases to members’ doorsteps, Pete Stolpman would step up to the plate and be a sport. But just try mentioning Angeli to him: That’s Sashi’s annual…
When The Grape Whisperer Keeps His Cool Twenty-one years ago, Manfred Krankl of Sine Qua Non put a block of Syrah at Stolpman Vineyards onto the world stage. Krankl bought most of the fruit that went into the Sine Qua Non Syrah from Stolpman’s “Originals” block in 1995, and then watched as the 95- to…
Lychee, Pear, and Beeswax: 91pt Stolpman Viognier Lots happened in the wine world in 2015. California suffered through its fourth consecutive drought year. Bordeaux, if we’re to believe early reports out of the Place (admittedly tough to trust those guys!), had still another miracle harvest, with some suggesting a magical combination of 2009 and 2010….
Rare Flagship Cabernet Prize Almost a year ago, we offered the last cases of Stone the Crows “Fallen Feather” Napa Cabernet. But the winery’s flagship bottle was off-limits—until today. The 95-point 2014 Stone the Crows Napa Valley Cabernet was produced by the Wall Street Journal’s “most successful winemaker in California,” who this past November landed…
Vines Planted by Harlan’s Napa Valley Reserve Crew In the pantheon of successful American winemakers, no one can hold a candle to Thomas Rivers Brown. The Wall Street Journal’s Jay McInerney has called him, “the most successful winemaker in California.” With at least 25 100-point scores, including the only California Cabernet Wine Spectator ever gave…
From his perch atop Spring Mountain, Stony Hill winemaker Mike Chelini has spent an astonishing 40+ years turning out the most brilliant, chiseled mountain Chardonnays Napa Valley has ever seen. This 2014 Stony Hill Chardonnay is a sublime effort of bright, lemon-peel intensity, with a righteous mineral-driven and juicy acid backbone. Culled from a perfect…
Once Every 40 Years in Stags Leap District Founded in 1972, well before Stags Leap earned its AVA status, Clos Du Val leaped to the top after Pierre Brejoux, a judge in the famous 1976 tasting, rated Clos Du Val’s Cabernet above Château Montrose and Léoville-Las Cases. In a 10-year anniversary rematch hosted by the…
The Best of the Old World But Unique Unto Itself Almost a thousand miles south of Jerez, off the coast of Morocco lies one of the most untouched, surreal terroirs in all of winemaking: the Canary Islands. The New York Times’ Eric Asimov said of the island’s wines, “I was especially taken by the reds,…
The Gang of Five Down Under and the Awakening Winemaker Bruno Tait could have just played it safe. He’s used to raking in the critical praise for his Shiraz, which Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate says compete with “the very best” of Australia’s blockbusters at “a fraction of the cost.” Twelve straight vintages of his Shiraz-dominant…
The Outlier in Parker’s Gang of Five It’s been almost 25 years since Jim Clendenen first introduced us to the Talley family’s Rosemary’s Vineyard Pinot Noir with an epic late-’80s bottle from Au Bon Climat. Adam Tolmach would soon follow suit at Ojai, grabbing every cluster the Talleys would sell to him. Bryan Babcock came…
Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc As It SHOULD Be … But So Rarely Is! It was John R. from Rosemont, PA, who put it best when he posted his 5-star review of Steve Gill’s ultra-mineral Te Mania Sauvignon Blanc. “Who needs Cloudy Bay?” John wrote. Who indeed? The vast majority of the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc found…
Joey Tensley’s 2014 “Tenshen White” … Wine Spectator’s Top 100. 256 words We’ve been doing a rope-a-dope. Ducking and dodging. Keeping elbows in to protect our mid-section. But finally, yesterday, the hammer came down. Moving forward, we were told, we’re “on the clock.” We’re spending too much time writing “too many offers where there’s too…
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