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To all Wine Exchangers, There are a lot of moving parts in the whole process of selling wine.  First you have to grow or get grapes, then make the wine, then price it, and then find an avenue to sell it.  Sometimes if you’re lucky, you catch on with a certain critic and he/she becomes […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The Folonari family is one of modern-day Tuscany’s founding wine families.   The family started their business in 1825, already keen on developing, producing and distributing fine Italian wine.   That’s thinking ahead.   In 1912, the family purchased a little Chianti company by the name of Ruffino.   Many of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Talk about a wine that gets under your skin. I had this wine prior to release and remember thinking that it was something pretty darn special. When it finally came time to buy it, I did. I had it again about three months ago when winemaker Peter Gago was in town […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Alright, these are those wines. Those wines that people way cooler than you or I bust out at tastings and win the day. Those wines that the hippest sommelier busts out when he has his hip sommelier friends over and they all go batty because it tastes like (insert white Grand […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Arguably the top gun ‘cult’ producer in the Ventoux, Philippe Gimel unfortunately doesn’t make enough wine to have much of a market presence.  But this is a talented producer with excellent touch that does a surprising job of taming the fruit in this rugged part of the eastern Rhone.  Of course […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Go Big or Go Home! How many times have you heard that? I know, too many. But there’s definitely something to be said for ‘going big’, especially when it come to the world’s most collectible wines. Bordeaux magnums look cool, age forever and, as opposed to those bulky 3 liters and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, For years the term The Burgundy of Italy has been used to describe the Piedmont region and its wines. I have to say, the comparison is apropos. Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo share many of the same characteristics, haunting aromatics, deceptively light color in relation to flavor, proven track record for aging […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s back! Seems as if Pruno is the wine equivalent of the Most Recent Kiss Farewell Tour, if you catch my drift. We sell out, the supplier says there is no more and then, BAM, two months later another batch shows up. Great for us! And you… For those of you […]

To all Wine Exchangers, JAYER CROS PARANTOUX 1990. CHATEAU HAUT BRION BLANC 1989. TAYLOR’S PORT 1927. …SANTA RITA CASA REAL? One might wonder what kind of list would include the following combination of wines.  A legendary Burgundy, an historic white Bordeaux from the appellation’s most renowned chateau, an ancient bottling of one of the Douro’s […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Everything about today’s offering is cool. The labels are cool, the wines are cool, even the owner/winemakers name, Adi Badenhorst, is cool. There’s almost a danger of this offering being too hip. In wine terms, Adi Badenhorst is one of South Africa’s up and coming rebel rock stars.  He left a […]