The end of the year is often when some of the best bottles get opened, and January is when the cellar shows the impact. This selection of old and rare wines and spirits is designed to restock cellars with bottles chosen for how they age, not just how they impress on release, including mature classics, proven benchmarks, and younger wines with decades ahead of them. You will find fully mature icons alongside bottles selected for long-term aging. For collectors looking beyond current inventory, our wine auctions and spirits auctions remain two of the strongest sources for rare, older bottles and singular releases that rarely reappear once they are gone.

Bordeaux, burgundy, France, Wine NewsletterKate SotoJanuary 5, 2026K&L Wine Merchantsklwines, wine cellar, restock your cellar, champagne, bordeaux, burgundy, italian wine, italy, california cabernet, napa valley

Premiere Napa Valley 2024 and the 2022 Napa Vintage

Last week was the eagerly anticipated, 28th annual Premiere Napa Valley (PNV), a celebration of the best wines of our beloved Northern California valley. It’s one of the most vibrant weeks in the Napa Valley calendar year, particularly for those with a penchant for collectibles. As one may expect from the name, the event bears some similarities to Bordeaux's En Primeur (EP), but also some distinct differences, not just in the terminology of 'Primeur' versus 'Premiere.'

Wine NewsletterChelsea HerholdtFebruary 29, 2024K&L Wine Merchantsklwines, wines, collectible wines, napa valley, california cabernet, wine collection, premiere napa valley, chelsea Herholdt, 2022 napa valley vintage, napa vintage guide, napa vintage report

Golden State, Silver Linings: The Domestic Wine Newsletter

As California finds itself in the midst of another brutal fire season, we release our newsletter devoted to its wines. The timing is coincidence, but the sentiment is sincere: we are passionate about our state and want to support our fellow Californians in this difficult time in any way we know how. The way we know is wine. We’ve enclosed in this newsletter some of our Buyers’ current favorites. And we are publishing it with the hopes that our beloved places and people under siege by fire will soon get the reprieve they so desperately need.

California Wine, Wine NewsletterKate SotoOctober 5, 2020K&L Wine Merchantsklwines, k&l wine blog, k&l wine merchant, california wine, california chardonnay, napa valley, sonoma wine, santa barbara wine, california cabernet, california pinot noir

Celebrate the Red, White, and Blue with Some Red, White, and Rosé

Just in time for the 4th: our Domestic Newsletter! Domestic Buyers Ryan Woodhouse and Kaj Stromer talk old vines, new wines, and the bounty of good juice that lies in between.

California Wine, rhone, Wine NewsletterKate SotoJuly 1, 2020K&L Wine Merchantsklwines, k&l wine merchants, k&l wine blog, domestic wine, napa wine, sonoma wine, california cabernet, california chardonna, paso robles

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