Category Archives: Featured Selections
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Don’s April Collector’s Series Top Picks
We have several inspired offerings in store for you this month, but I have to admit the French really did their homework this time around. Consequently, my two Top Picks this month go to Château Laplagnotte Bellevue’s stunning 2010 St. Emilion Grand Cru and Verget’s outstanding 2011 Pouilly-Fuissé. For starters, Château Laplagnotte Bellevue is a Read More
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- April 30, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s April Premier Series Top Picks
This month’s Top Picks provide a little personal drama. For starters, Querciola’s Barbera d’Alba and Domaine de la Collonge’s Macon-Fuissé have been perennial favorites, but then so have Casa Silva’s delicious Reserva Carmenère and Lawson’s Gewurztraminer. Yet, I have to admit that one would be hard pressed to find a better Barbera d’Alba than Querciola’s Read More
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- April 26, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s March Premier Series Top Picks
This month’s first Top Pick goes to Pietra Santa’s 2009 Sassolino. Winemaker Allesio Carli has fashioned an exemplary Super Tuscan style red in California from Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that should absolutely not be missed. And although this year’s Sassolino could be labeled as Sangiovese (as it contains 80% of that varietal), Pietra Santa Read More
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- March 14, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s February Collector’s Series Top Picks
I really like the variety as well as the quality of this month’s features, so I may as well throw a dart at the labels of this month’s offerings and whatever labels the first two darts land upon get to be Top Picks. All right, I suppose that won’t do. Consequently, it would be a Read More
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- March 6, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s March Collector’s Series Top Picks
This month’s two Top Picks have earned a place at my table, and from the recent reviews of these wines quite a few folks will wish they had discovered these beauties when we did, before their reviews came out in the international press. For starters, the 2006 Valenciso Reseva Rioja earns this month’s first Top Read More
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Don’s February Premier Series Top Picks
This month’s first Top Pick is a no brainer. The 2009 Château Barreyre clearly stands out as an extraordinary example of what Bordeaux can deliver for a price most of us can afford. The prodigy of an overachieving Petit Château in a fabulous vintage the 2009 Château Barreyre delivers everything one could ask from a Read More
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- February 27, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s January Collector’s Series Top Picks
With Rhône wines on my mind and a plethora of splendid wines from the Rhône Valley from which to choose, my first Top Pick this month is a no brainer. Domaine du Vieux Lazaret’s 2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pape covets the first spot. It’s a wonderful Châteauneuf-du-Pape from an outstanding vintage. Enjoy it now or lay it away Read More
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- January 29, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s January Premier Series Top Picks
It’s a new year with a whole new set of wines from which to choose! Decisions, decisions. This month’s Premier Series features represent outstanding quality and value across the board, but preferences being what they are my first Top Pick goes to Errazuriz’s excellent 2011 Estate Reserva Carmenère. The wine is top notch, and I Read More
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- January 24, 2013
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s December Collector’s Series Top Picks
Collector Series Top Picks are always the most challenging. How do I exclude a wine our tasting panels have deemed highly desirable and chosen as a monthly feature and then say “sorry, guy, you’re good but your two buddies are better . . . you’re out of here.” Harsh, don’t you think, and not exactly Read More
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- December 20, 2012
- by Don Lahey
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Don’s December Premier Series Top Picks
My first top pick this month has to be the 2004 Château Laronde Desormes. This exceptional effort came straight from the château’s cellar. It highlights just how good a Petit Château Bordeaux can be from a serious producer such as Laronde Desormes. In addition, mature Bordeauxis hard to find and typically fabulously expensive. To offer Read More
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- December 18, 2012
- by Don Lahey
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