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To all Wine Exchangers, Silver Oak’s 2011 Alexander Valley bottling was just released this past weekend at their winery in Sonoma and it’s a star of the vintage.   Big changes have been afoot at Silver Oak over the last several years. Wine Spectator’s James Laube was truly impressed with the latest efforts to come […]

To all Wine Exchangers, So what if you make America's best Tannat?  In a Cabernet world, it might not mean a lot. The grape doesn’t have a lot of exposure in the wine world beyond its native Madiran in central France and in Uruguay.  But clearly, under certain conditions, this can be an exciting option […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Based on the huge demand we received for our Force Majeure offer from a week or two ago, it seems you guys are down with top-of-the-line world-class Washington Syrah. This is an updated addendum to a piece we wrote back in January (featured below) concerning the amazing wines of Charles Smith […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In the world of Cabernet, if you can get something that says Napa Valley on it and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, you’ve hit the jackpot.  And nowadays, with Napa Cab prices spiraling out of control that can be a very tall order. Last November, we sent out an […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Hey, nothing sells better than a little controversy. As such, today’s offer will simply be about reporting the news as it was reported to us. Luca is an extremely tasty project established by the masterful, multi-tasking Laura Catena of Catena Zapata winery fame. Laura wanted to have a winery that focused […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The top wines from Bordeaux’s 2014 vintage are a 100% slam-dunk futures ‘buy’.  Our last feature offering from the 2014 Bordeaux Campaign proved just that with two outstanding, high-scoring, 100% Grade A Margaux wines for under $25 a bottle. Today’s feature 2014 is perhaps even more special than scoring killer Margaux […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They went and did it again. Our ‘broken record of the month’ award this month goes to the Rhone’s Michel Gassier, Philippe Cambie, and their incredible value Costieres de Nimes Rouge, Nostre Pais. Selling this kid of juice at this kind of price never gets old. The funny thing is, with […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yes, $29.98 can get you a severely great bottle of Brunello di Montalcino from one of its finest vintages ever. And yes, this wine is a legit ‘93+ points’. You can have your Brunello and drink it too. That being said, this is perhaps the rarest of species. After some extensive […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The 2011 harvest was a watershed event for the Duoro’s dry red wine programs. The constant refrains of “Best ever!” rang from the cellars of one Quinta after another, the vintage just about perfect. Same could be said for Quinta do Crasto who, in 2011 produced what may be their finest-ever […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are so many ways to spin this wine… There’s the fact that the wine is made with minimal intervention using “old world” winemaking techniques such as whole cluster and native fermentation. Or perhaps it’s the organic and biodynamic farming practices in which the estates vineyards are 100% sustainable with low […]