All of these producers make reasonably priced and cellar-worthy wines that are pretty easy to find. His wines are reasonably priced and most assuredly cellar-worthy, but I don't see them very often. The palate is not as expressive, still pretty tough and rocky, and showing wafts of yeasty cellar that come and go. MORE >>

She has an interesting and slightly frustrating job because the store is a little neighborhood place with no internet sales, they sell bottles to customers who walk in, that's it. Most sales are of the $10 variety, I would guess. And secondly he said that the temperature in the room was too cold - it was cellar temperature. MORE >>

Other rarities in the sale of 2,000 bottles spanning 139 years set record levels. But one aspect of the sale that struck me was the premium paid over retail prices. Last week, Sotheby’s held an auction of wines from Chateau Lafite-Rothschild in Hong Kong that broke many records. “Sheer unbridled enthusiasm,&# he said. MORE >>

One of the few remaining traditionalists, Lopez de Heredia is known for outrageously long bottle aging in their legendary cellars prior to releasing the wine. If Bordeaux pre-sales irk you, then consider Rioja, where some of the producers age the wine for you! Lopez de Heredia. But it was deliciously fun snapshot. MORE >>

A&P grocery stores, which purchased Best Cellars in 2007, filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Speaking of distress sales, a French blogger wonders if a Chinese bidder may emerge for Heidsieck Champagnes. SIPPED: spitting! “The length and precision of the stream are just unbelievable.&# No, this is not something from Urology. MORE >>