See the full list at www.wineexpress.com for today’s sale.
It begins with a 2016 Bordeaux for $7.47 which is 75% below retail
There’s also the 2015 Napa Cellars V Collection Pinot Noit 50% off.
After checking out the sale items, look at the other featured wines. You’ll find great wines like Caymus Special Select Cabernet and Heitz Martha’s Vineyard Cab, wines rarely offered online.
Read the following detailed review to see why we selected wineexpress.com as the best website for High-end wines in 2020:
BEST FOR HIGH END, Luxury Wines
winexpress.com tries to balance “value and service” which suggests it is neither a giant warehouse nor a down-and-dirty discount site. It is the exclusive online wine shop partner of The Wine Enthusiast catalog and website. So it is well-financed and has an excellent facility for storage and shipping.
So far in 2020, it has risen to the occasion and has picked up many once allocated wines from California and has vastly improved its high-end imported selections.
It really leads the field in upgrading to big-named wines like Gaja, Dominus, Sassicaia, Shafer, Caymus Special Select, and, yes Perrier-Jouet and Dom…all slightly discounted with the Sassicaia 25% below retail.
I’ve not yet seen anyone else offer Phelps Insignia or Cakebread’s Reserve Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon. And recently it secured an allotment of the luxury Corton-Charlemagne from Louis Latour and a 2017 Puligny Montrachet, Les Folatieres.”
Add the Pahlmeyer Merlot and Chardonnay to the recent offerings and the point is clear: wineexpress.com is getting first dibs on many wines once exclusive to top restaurants and/or sold direct from the winery.
The site works through the usual sorting procedures with click on searches by variety, price and region. It also offers several wine club options and gift packages.
One special touch is a series of videos taking you through tastings that are conducted by Josh Farrell, its Wine Director.
He often runs through the daily wine special which can then be purchased. He is one excellent swirler, BTW, and he encourages decanting and/or aerating young wine.
You can learn a lot about judging wine by watching a few of his videos.
And it continues to offer several good value wines under $20.
But overall, this online site sticks to the high road ($50 and up) and allows some wriggle room for choices within each category.
Norm Roby's Unfiltered Guide to Savvy Wine Shopping 