December 2018

To all Wine Exchangers, There is only one Raul Perez.  Very few winemakers in the world have his talent, creativity, and fearlessness.  We met Raul a few years back on his home turf in Bierzo where he grew up.  We were invited into his cellar where we saw his concrete egg (pretty avant garde equipment ten years ago), and tasted...

To all Wine Exchangers, If you’ve been following your vintage charts, 2015 in the Margaux appellation is considered to be one of the best ever and today’s 2015 Margaux we're offering has to be one of the greatest values in even in this terrific vintage. Regarded as one of the oldest wine estates of the Médoc region, Château d’Arsac has...

To all Wine Exchangers, Frequency owner/winemaker Zac Wasserman is in it for all the right reasons.  Winemaking was Zac’s destiny it seems, after graduating from UC Berkeley (Go Bears) in 2009 with a degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Zac began his professional career in laboratory research.  It only took him 3 months to learn that this was not his...

To all Wine Exchangers, Yeah, the pic above kind of speaks for itself.  We've literally waited since 2009 to see this wine, the moment we discovered that 2008 was going to be one of the finest Champagne harvests ever. Just one slight problem, we and Veuve Clicquot had to sell through a whole string of good-not-great vintages to get to the...

To all Wine Exchangers, We first stumbled across the wines of the Les Vignerons de Tautavel Vingrau (VTV for short) a few years back when their 2012 Silex scored a whopping 95-points from Jeb Dunnuck and he compared the wine to Clos des Pape’s fabled Chateauneuf…at a fraction the price. We sold that wine out without even issuing an e-mail...

To all Wine Exchangers, Every so often a story comes along regarding wine that transcends the subject and makes an impression on the broad populace.  Perhaps the most famous is the Sixty Minutes piece on the French Paradox that asserted the French had lower incidence of heart attacks because of their regular consumption of red wine.  No report we can...

To all Wine Exchangers, Markus Molitor started in 1984 with four hectares of vines and is now cultivating far more than 100 today, in many of the Mosel’s top sites, and looking for more.  According to Markus himself he is currently in negotiation with dozens of vineyard owners, looking to score a micro-parcel here or there of these famous sites...

To all Wine Exchangers, Today’s offer comes from an estate we’ve been following for many years and in 2015, their outstanding harvest produced Antonio Galloni’s top wine of the vintage under $30 dollars! Chateau Cote de Baleau had been in the Reiffers family for hundreds of years, a fine chateau that really needed an injection of energy.  That energy arrived...

To all Wine Exchangers, Unless you’ve been living under a caillou (rock) you must have some sense of just how awesome Washington State Syrah truly is.  There are a number of producers absolutely lighting it up in the Great White north, including Winex alumni K Vintners, Reynvaan, Force Majeure and, of course, Cayuse. But there’s another very important name to add...

To all Wine Exchangers, Miss the St. Damien…again?  Don’t worry, we got your back…again. Here’s a bevy of Ravishing Rhones on this rainy SoCal Wednesday that should certainly get your gander.  All of these in-stock bad boys scored at least 95-points and all hit the shelf for under $50.  Can your Napa Cabernet do that?  Didn’t think so… So, without...