November 2017

To all Wine Exchangers, Ah, ‘Tis the season.  And, with the Holidays coming you and I both know it’s never too early to put your Champagne house in order. And, we have just the wine for you! The house of Pommery is one of Champagne’s ‘gold standard’ properties.  Founded in Reims in 1856, Pommery has long-term contracts on almost 2,000...

To all Wine Exchangers, It is probably a good idea to mention that we aren’t given to excess.  Every deal isn’t the best deal of our lives, every wine isn’t the greatest ever made, and every vintage isn’t the ‘vintage of the century’.  We are well aware of the hyperbole some merchants use to sell things.  We consciously try not...

To all Wine Exchangers, Bordeaux… the land of many of the world’s top estates.  Yet, in this land of over 10,000 Chateaux, there are only a chosen few that are household names we all recognize.  But as customers of the Exchange, you know it’s our mission to dig a little deeper.  We travel, we fly, we taste and we constantly keep an...

To all Wine Exchangers, In the wine business, looking backward never gets ‘old’. Who doesn’t like to have something direct form the source, with bottle age, for the same price at the current releases? Answer? No one. Except, maybe, Steve Martin in The Jerk, “Bring us some fresh wine! The freshest you got!” With all due respect to Steve, the...

To all Wine Exchangers, They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  But when the ‘old tricks’ are like this Cabernet, why would you want to?  The story all starts with one of the Napa Valley’s most iconic sites, the Herb Lamb Vineyard. For over a decade this vineyard was the source of those legendary Colgin Herb Lamb...