The best wishes....
“Best wishes to you” would be more grammatically correct. However, it is a very passive tense lacking much empathy with the person you are addressing. You want to take ownership of the statement. A more empathetic way of saying it would be, “With warm regards,” or a little more formally, “I wish you the best in all of your endeavors.”
It is always 'best wishes'. Only if you are going to mention a specific 'wish', do you ever wish anybody ONE wish (and then you'd say something like 'my best wish for you is....').
You might also use 'best wish' if you are talking about the best among several choices of 'wishes', in which case you aren't actually wishing a blessing on anybody, but are commenting on the choices someone else made (or even a choice you yourself made):
for instance: Harry and James both made wishes but Harry's wish was the best wish.
Or, I wished for health, wealth and happiness, and got all three, but the best wish was the one for happiness.
Something like that. However, in general, when speaking to someone, in person or in closing a letter, you will always say 'best wishes' because you are expressing the hope that everything good will happen for that person see more...
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