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Released Only in the Best Vintages If you want to taste an authentic red Rioja crafted in an epic, modern style, boasting a nearly-black hue, ultra-concentrated, with an endless, mouth-filling finish, today’s 2015 “Dioro” is for you. The Escudero family’s Bodegas Vinsacro, one of Rioja’s top producers, has been making wine since 1825. Dioro is…
From the Cradle of Value, A Médoc-Style Red In case you missed every single article published in the last year alone on the utterly explosive scene taking place in South Africa, let today’s missive be your cliff notes. In two parts, we break down why today’s 2015 Botanica Arboretum Bordeaux Blend from Stellenbosch by a…
Rolling Three Cherries on the Sommelier Slot Machine The sommelier species is an interesting one. The best of them can charm like George Clooney, taste like Robert Parker, and crunch numbers like Warren Buffett. Creativity and individuality are defining traits, which is why getting three sommeliers to agree on anything is basically impossible … or so…
The Under-the-Radar White We Love Few under-the-radar whites excite us as much as dry Vouvray—so why do we offer it so infrequently? Because the amazing Loire whites we have tasted in our time have set the bar high, and not much of the Vouvray that makes it to the States, and to our tasting panel,…
When our importer friend urged us to take a bottle of this rare 2015 Grimaldi Camilla release home from a trade tasting, of course we wanted to take it, but at first we politely declined. In Italian fashion, he shoved the bottle in our backpack and shouted: “Forget about it! This won’t last!” What’s not to love about…
Canonica a Cerreto boasts a world-renowned vineyard site in the heart of Tuscany, and a winemaker Food & Wine called a leader of Italy’s “generation next.” That makes their 2015 Sandiavolo a massive all-around win—one that delivers a combination of vintage, terroir, and talent at a price that doesn’t come around very often. The Sandiavolo…
Great Brunello from the now-legendary 2015 vintage in Tuscany rarely comes with this kind of price. Especially when the bottle has an impressive 95-point score from the Decanter World Wine Awards that called it “excellent,” and a rave from James Suckling, who ended his review on an exclamatory, “What a wine from the only cooperative…
Ever since we discovered the outstanding Caparzo Brunello on a buying trip to Tuscany in 2011, it’s become one of the most beloved and sought-after offerings on Wine Access—and with 95 points for just $40, this bottle reaches a whole new level of value. Never before has there been a year quite like 2015 in…
An Unbeatable Spanish Value Priorat makes dense, weighty, powerful reds that are among Spain’s most expensive wines. A few miles away, Montsant produces elegant, complex, beautifully perfumed reds that are among Spain’s most riveting bargains. Today, we’re offering another shot at possibly our greatest Spanish red deal — Celler de Capçanes is “one of my…
A Blind Tasting Surprise: Languedoc’s Ultimate Red Discovering the Capitelles des Fermes Les Mûriers wasn’t our most elegant moment: after one sip of this decadent French red—which exploded with layers of wild berries, fresh red roses, and lilacs—we abandoned our the polite chit-chat and began elbowing our way through the Napa house party where we…
It’s extraordinarily easy to miss the left-hand turn to Caprili while careening along the Strada Provinciale 117 in the Tuscan town of Montalcino. We might wax too poetic about these hillside towns in Italy, but how can we not? Imagine the grandest view of the Catskills in upstate New York, only dotted with ancient cypress…
“This is no ordinary Petite Sirah” At the northern end of Napa Valley, winemakers in Calistoga turn out big, bold, red wines from the warmest section of the Valley where ripeness reigns supreme. Some of the finest bottlings aren’t even made from Cabernet Sauvignon. For the better part of the last decade, Mike Officer of…
100-Points With Best-in-Class Pricing “Pure perfection in the glass,” is what Jeb Dunnuck calls the 100-point 2015 Carte Blanche Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley. This wine truly has nothing but strengths: It was crafted by 2012 Food & Wine magazine Winemaker of the Year Helen Keplinger under the auspices of proprietor Nicholas Allen, whose family’s wine…
Unforgettable Sonoma Chardonnay, Grapes From a Late Legend A Wine Access favorite, Carte Blanche is back with an unprecedented release: a ravishing Sonoma Chardonnay from the famed UV Vineyard, a wine of Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru-like opulence. Longtime fans know this winery’s fine pedigree: operated by the same family that owns First Growth Château Haut-Brion, and…
Single Vineyard Pinot From Sonoma’s Most Exciting Subregion Helen Keplinger, a 100-point winemaker and Wine Spectator cover star, is the face of a new generation of young vintners in California, and the 2015 Carte Blanche Sun Chase Vineyard Pinot Noir is a silken red that epitomizes the new California. Backed by true First Growth pedigree,…
Blue-Chip Cabernet-Dominant Napa Red If you’re among the Wine Access faithful who saw “sold out” on our previous offer of the 100-point Carte Blanche Cabernet, consider this redemption day. As blue-chip Napa estates go, Carte Blanche is at the highest level, up on the top floor with Bryant Family, Colgin, and Opus One. We consider…
Châteauneuf-du-Pape producers are shaking in their boots over wines like today’s 2015 Casa Castillo Las Gravas from southern Spain’s Jumilla region, because this rich red blends classic Rhône-style Grenache and Syrah and their irresistible spice in a value package that rivals the France’s top bottlings for ⅓ the price. With 94 points from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate,…
European Red Value Drinks Like a Baby Châteauneuf On a recent trip to NYC, I stopped by Danny Meyer’s new restaurant at The Whitney Museum and was introduced to this 2015 Casal do Ramil Red, which is easily one of the best value reds from Europe currently being poured in the U.S. It reminded me…
The Brightest Star from Chile’s Top Winery of the Year — Two Years Running Our annual sojourn to Chile’s lush Casablanca Valley is among our most picturesque trips — and one of our toughest assignments. Regardless of the quality of the reds and whites we discover in the country’s top viticultural region, most Americans are…
Anyone seeking to educate a palate or build a cellar that can speak to the full complexity of Chianti Classico should leap at the chance to acquire the magisterial 2015 Castell’in Villa—especially at $25 per bottle! Operated by a reclusive Greek princess with rigorously traditional standards, this small Castelnuovo Berardenga winery is “deeply admired and…
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