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To all Wine Exchangers, We have talked about the ‘waltz of the accountants before’.  It is simply a situation where someone in the ‘numbers’ department takes a look at ‘depletion reports’ and decides, given the commitment of money, storage, and opportunity costs, that a product is better off gone.  Of course these are, as we […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “…Nicholas (R. Gibson) and everyone at Firefly Night hope you enjoy our wines and that illuminating moment in time when you are reminded that… life is rich, beauty is everywhere, and there is no better time to celebrate than now.” Like a lot of folks in the ‘hospitality industry’, Nicolas R. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ve been privileged to get a re-load of what was one our most ‘stealth’ offerings last year. This one managed to both slip under-the-radar and completely sell out.  We love it when that happens. As a small foreword to this article we wrote back in December, we recently tried this wine […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This is a story that spans three centuries, from a place that is not the first one people think of when they are talking about California wine.  We are speaking of the historic Cienega Valley located near Hollister between Hwy 101 and the 5 Freeway.  Probably the only time most folks […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Clarendon Hills proprietor Roman Bratasiuk doesn’t speak very much. He lets his wines do his talking for him. Or should we say shouting? Clarendon Hills wines are unique. Nothing else tastes like them. Don’t try to group these into the ‘Aussie fruit bomb’ category, because they’re not. They also aren’t in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We love finding obscure producers vinifying under a rock somewhere and present them to you as the newest ‘find’, but sometimes you have to give the old guard their due when they deliver the goods. Alois Lageder is definitely part of the old guard, the winery having been founded back in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Domaine de la Mordoree’s winemaker/proprietor Christophe Delorme passed away last month. He was a passionate, energetic man dedicated to two of the lesser-known yet truly outstanding appellations in the southern Rhone, Lirac and Tavel. I’d met him multiple times, talked shop, and enthusiastically consumed his wines since we sold his first […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Every day we get up, come to work, and try to find the best values we can in the world of wine.   For the most part we do quite well.  But occasionally events unfold that create unpredictably remarkable buying opportunities.  There’s no way you could make this happen.  It can only […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Not to sound redundant, but nobody brings the value drama like the Spaniards.  If I were confined to that ‘desert island’ choice of only one genre of wine it would be Spain and, specifically, Rioja.  Why? Ageablility, versatility, dependability, all of the ‘ilitys’, delivering far beyond their typically modest price points […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When it rains it pours. And here we thought we were going to kind of cruise through July. No way. Quite the opposite. If you’ve checked the New Arrivals tab on our website you’ll see that we are being bombarded with brilliant wine in the middle of frigging summer. Including these […]