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Since we have spent a couple of decades or so ranting how exceptional the values are from Spain, we’ll let that be our only comment about the ‘big picture’. We hold that truth to be self evident here. The best selling wine in our history was a vintage Gran Reserva from Faustino with about a decade of bottle

Okay, we’re treading on some hallowed ground here. Cerbaiona is serious stuff. Like, really serious. Like, perhaps the best producer in Montalcino serious. Like DRC serious, or Coche serious, or Harlan serious. Seriously!

We know, we know, the Cerbaiona sold fast...too fast. How could we ever make it up to you? How about an incredibly hot price on our most compelling Cab deal of 2019? Intrigued? We certainly were when our distributor gave us an amazing opportunity to clear out what remained in their warehouses at a HOT closeout price. We sold buckets

Many of you veteran Wine Exchange customers may remember a Bordeaux Blanc we featured nearly a decade ago whose fruit source was “secret” but from what was revealed to us, had come from a prestigious “First Growth”. Process of elimination may have helped you narrow things down as only three of the five First Growth’s actually make a

Now that the 2019 En-Primeur campaign Is all but finished, we can look back and say that these fast and furious three weeks were a blur for most… including us! But now that we can settle in, go over our notes of the 150+ wines that were air shipped to us and read the notes and reviews from all

Gavin did it again! We had him to personally thank for one of the finest Pinot Noir deals we’ve offered since folks had been sheltering at home. That Chanin Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Sta. Rita Hills 2014 was a helluva score.

Groth is hot! It’s one of the grand, hallmark names in Napa Valley wine. Its reputation precedes itself. In the 1985 vintage, Dennis Groth and winemaker Nils Venge crafted the first 100 point wine in California history with their historic 1985 Groth Reserve. To this day that wine remains an intensely collectible bottle. Who doesn’t like drinking history?

A little over a year ago we wrote about the Ferraton Cotes du Rhone Samorens 2016. It was a casual blurb about this well made, user friendly Cotes du Rhone during a time when there were still a number of choices on the marketplace from the outstanding 2016 vintage. A lot has changed in the world since then.

We have been saying for some time that there has been a lot of smoke and mirrors in the Napa Valley regarding how much wine is actually selling at the current high price levels. We even had the temerity to suggest that we expected to start seeing juice appearing in all kinds of relatively new ’bargain’ labels coming to

One of the few ‘observations’ that we get from customers who travel through our retail showroom’s pearly gates is that we don’t have enough ‘Paso’ wine on the floor.