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When it comes to old vine California Zinfandel, Seghesio almost always has the last word. The family practically invented the category after all, and Zinfandel lovers are willing to pay top dollar year after year for their signature bottlings. That’s why we’re thrilled to offer our best Seghesio deal ever on this double 94-point 2015…
Grown in one of Bordeaux’s greatest vintages ever, this second wine of Second Growth Rauzan-Ségla showcases the estate’s prime Margaux terroir without the burly tannins—or the price tag—of its big, expensive brother. And it’s drinking at its peak right now. Rauzan-Ségla has been famous for its bold red wines nearly as long as the modern…
2015 Seifried “Old Coach Road”: Stunning Judges at a Stunning Price Most who travel to the South Island of New Zealand do so for the swimming, windsurfing, and kayaking. Summer days in the seaside paradise of Nelson feature bright sunshine and turquoise skies, even as the mercury barely touches 80 degrees. At night, we pull…
Robert Mondavi and Eduardo Chadwick created Viña Seña in 1995 with the express purpose of challenging the world’s greatest red wines. It was a gauntlet thrown down to Oakville and Pauillac from the wind-streaked foothills of the Andes. 2015 will go down in the history books as a vintage that Viña Seña winemaker Francisco Baettig…
Nine months of winter. Three months of hell. That’s Ribera del Duero, the hot, dry region known as Spain’s Napa Valley, where extreme conditions push the Tinta del Pais grape to decadent plushness. The region’s top wines—names like Pingus and Vega Sicilia—are some of the most expensive in the entire country, commanding three- and four-figure…
When It Feels Right To Be Wrong… We were led to believe that all 16 bottles of Shiraz on the table were over $50 at a recent blind tasting in Chicago. But after the first pass of tasting, our host revealed with a smile that he’d snuck in one value bottle that regularly goes for…
“Best New Winery” in Just Three Vintages Since its debut vintage in 2013, Silkman Winery in the Hunter Valley has exploded out of the gate. Just three vintages in, Australia’s top wine critic, James Halliday, has named Silkman one of the Top 10 Wineries Down Under. Its specialty isSémillon, the crisp, lemony, and mineral variety,…
Napa Valley might seem quiet this time of year, but the first Saturday in February is one of the biggest days on the California Cabernet calendar: It’s Silver Oak’s Napa Valley Release Day, wine lovers’ very first shot at the new vintage of Silver Oak’s iconic and opulent Cabernet. Once a year for three decades,…
Silver Oak’s 1-2 Punch: Early Release. Magnums. This weekend, we shared our interview with Silver Oak’s Matt Duncan, the third generation behind America’s First Family of wine. It was in that interview Matt said something we won’t forget: “There is so much talent pouring into the California wine business, I think the quality bar keeps…
Napa Valley might seem quiet this time of year, but the first Saturday in February is one of the biggest days on the California Cabernet calendar: It’s Silver Oak’s Napa Valley Release Day, wine lovers’ very first shot at the new vintage of Silver Oak’s iconic and opulent Cabernet. Once a year for three decades,…
Raising the Winemaking Stakes Before winemaker Chris Pittenger founded Skinner Vineyards, he’d cut his teeth at the iconic Williams Selyem and Helen Turley’s legendary Marcassin. Skinner Vineyards was named one winery of “Four to Watch” by Wine Spectator. Jon Bonne’s The New California Wine includes Skinner as a “Top Producer” and calls Skinner a “serious…
The tiny-production Small Vines winery started with a pickup truck and a shovel. Now their exquisite Russian River Pinot is claimed by their mailing list, plus restaurants like The French Laundry and SingleThread. Fruit Intensity Oak Intensity Body Acidity Tannin ABV 13.50% Enjoy right away Now – 2027 % Pinot Noir Serving temperature – 55°…
New York City: For us, it’s part pleasure and part reconnaissance mission. Because so many European wines reach our eastern shores and are claimed by New York restaurants before anyone else gets a shot, we hit our favorite places in the city knowing we’ll get a great meal—and hoping to gather some valuable intel on…
Tiny-Production Sonoma Pinot From Iconic Vines When the 93-point score on this 2015 Sojourn Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast hits in early February in Wine & Spirits, Sommeliers from San Francisco to New York will come calling to Sojourn for their allocation. But I’ve just come from the winery’s appointment-only tasting salon just off Sonoma square…
The 2015 Vintage in Willamette Valley — A Stunning “Four for Four!!” It was while trekking the vines above the Hansel and Gretel Alsatian village of Wettolsheim that we discovered the rich, aromatic glory of Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer. It was October 2008, just a few days before harvest. The Pinot Gris berries were small…
Today’s 2015 is another world-class knockout Malbec grown by the godfather of Argentinian wine. It earned 93 points from Tim Atkin, who hailed it as “a nuanced, skillfully oaked Malbec with precision, focus and impressive palate length.” The story of this wine, and how it could land at your doorstep is the type of tale…
Napa Insider’s Powerhouse Value Play The Napa wine world is tiny, so we weren’t too surprised to run into two excellent vintners, Anna Monticelli and Kimberly Jones, sitting together at the bar at TORC in downtown Napa. The surprise came when they told us that the bottle of red accompanying their dry-aged NY strip, the…
Josh Phelps has landed on Forbes’ and Zagat’s 30 Under 30 lists, and Wine Enthusiast’s 40 Under 40 — and recently launched a new project called Grounded Wine Company. He worked some magic to land a top-notch winemaking consultant — his father Chris, who learned to make wine at Petrus in 1982, and has since…
From the Steepest Slopes, the Best Riesling [[image1_center]] Dr. Ulrich Stein is more than a winemaker — he is a passionate advocate for the traditional, steep, slate vineyards of the Mosel. Back in 2010, the man widely known as “Ulli” wrote a call to arms against the modern threats to the 2,000-year tradition of German…
The “Butterfly Effect” — A Day Off in Paris One fall day in 2010 in Paris, we did what we never do: We took a day off. After a double espresso and a couple of croissants, we grabbed a bench in the Jardin du Luxembourg, where we read 200 rat-a-tat-tat pages of a James Ellroy…
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