About Jeff Leve and The Wine Cellar Insider
About The Wine Cellar Insider
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The Wine Cellar Insider offers close to 4,000 different, searchable, exclusive, wine tasting notes and wine reviews with ratings! We also feature thousands of exclusive photographs, winery profiles, special guest contributors ranging from chateau owners, wine makers, fellow bloggers, consultants, negociants, retailers and more. Many of which will hang out and answer your questions. All our information is updated all the time. While we focus on Bordeaux wine, we also cover Rhone Valley Wines and California wines as well.
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About Jeff Leve
Jeff Leve- Founder, Contributor and Editor of “The Wine Cellar Insider”
The Wine Cellar Insider focuses on Bordeaux wine. Thousands of exclusive, searchable wine tasting notes with ratings, winery histories and profiles, images, in-depth articles, links and up to the minute harvest news. The Wine Cellar Insider also publishes special guest contributors ranging from chateaux owners, wine makers, consultants, negociants, retailers and more. The Wine Cellar Insider is the world’s leading source for Bordeaux harvest news. We also offer a wine and food community where you can talk about wine with others. Wine and Food Talk Forums
Jeff Leve has traveled to the Bordeaux wine region to barrel taste over a dozen times. He’ll be there twice this year. Each visit includes tastings at all the major properties and lasts between 2-3 weeks. He is in Bordeaux once or twice a year. Jeff Leve has been officially inducted into the following important Bordeaux societies:
The Jurade of St. Emilion
Hospitaliere de Pomerol
de l’Ordre des Hospitaliers de Pomerol
Commanderie de Bordeaux, Medoc, Graves, Sauternes
Jeff Leve is a self taught, wine enthusiast who has been tasting, collecting and traveling to wine regions in France, as well as in America for over 15 years.
Jeff Leve has given speeches on wine, most recently in China for the Hong Kong Trade Board at the International Wine and Spirits convention in Hong Kong. His tasting notes appear on numerous serious, well-respected web site including :
Our notes and scores are being carried by several web sites including ours. They are on Robert Parker’s site as well other sites including;
Wine-Searcher – Wine-Searcher
Liv-ex Exchange – Liv-ex Exchange
Farr Vintners – Farr Vintners
Bordeaux Index – Bordeaux Index
Fine & Rare Wines London - Fine and Rare Wines London
Vinalytics – Vinalytics
JJ Buckley – JJ Buckley
Bertrand Le Guren Bordeaux Ratings Overview – Bleguern
Los Angeles Wine Company LA Wine Company
Wallys Wine and Spirits Wallys Wine and Spirits
Manhattan Wine Company Manhattan Wine Company
Numerous other merchants, chateaux and Bordeaux negociants use them as well.
He also writes about Bordeaux wine and the wine market for Tasted magazine, which is distributed to over a dozen countries. He is also the moderator for Robert Parker’s web site. In his home city, Los Angeles, California, he consults numerous restaurants, merchants and private collectors on cellar acquisitions. He’s the former president of the Westwood Food and Wine Society, a Los Angeles based tasting group that has been together for over 4 decades. He is the founder and president of “7 Blind Men”, an important, Los Angeles based wine tasting group, dedicated to tasting wines blind.
Aside from wine, his passions include travel, cooking, music, collecting historic artifacts by 60’s rock music artists and his personality filled Yellow Labrador, Hercules. Hercules, better known as Herky by his friends and fans has his own page on this site as well.
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We prefer you ask wine questions in the Wine and Food Talk Forums but if you want to send wines for reviews, or have business or personal related questions, you can Contact me at jeff (at) thewinecellarinsider dot com. purposely spelled out, so spam bots don’t harvest this email address.
The Wine Cellar Insider was founded and run by Jeff Leve. The web site designer and strategist is Sasha Verhage. Graphic design is done by Todd Pearl Designs.
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