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Miss the MCK? No worries, here’s another double 96-pointer from the SAME winemaker! Many of you don’t know Brennon Leighton but you certainly know his wines. He’s the Director of Winemaking at K Vintners, working with proprietor Charles Smith to craft some of the finest wines not just in Washington, but the world.

You normally wouldn’t think of the Languedoc as a hotbed for some seriously delicious, crisp white wine, right? I mean, the picture one gets of the Languedoc is this hot ‘breadbasket’ type place that spins out oodles of tasty, high-octane Syrah, Grenache and Carignane that feeds the thirsty masses looking for a deal. And that, my friends, is correct. But the Languedoc is

They’ve done it again. Ho hum, another year, another incredible line-up of finely priced wines from one of Italy’s white wine stars.

As we mentioned in our earlier offering of the Maison Berthaude Chateauneuf ‘Tradition’ 2017 (one of the best Chateauneuf values we have introduced this year) this is not your typical story. Sure you’ve got old vines and vintners that have been on the land for generations. More importantly, you’ve got delicious efforts from exceptional vintages at prices well

The story of Salvestrin is your classic Napa Valley tale. In 1932 Italian immigrants John and Emma Salvestrin settled in the Napa Valley and purchased an old estate along St. Helena Highway. Their farmhouse was originally built in 1860, by Dr. George Belden Crane (1806-1898) one of the first wine pioneers in Napa.

The Cristom boys are at it again. Three guys, together since 1992, honing their skills and crafting some of the finest Pinot Noir in North America. Three guys that have learned together, grown together and watched their vineyards and winemaking mature into something exceptional. Truly exceptional.

Ah, a tradition unlike any other. I don’t know what it is about Casa Castillo, but we always seem to offer their wines in trios, and today is no exception!

Cue trumpets! This wine is a BIG deal. I mean, like, HUGE deal. It’s not often we see a winery that is already at the forefront of premium value on the planet delivering to us a literal vintage of the century for a wine already unmatched for price/quality (except for their neighbors in Rioja) when it comes to complexity, bottle age

One of the objectives here at the Exchange is to advise our clients to the best of our ability which wines are good investments. While we’re not licensed by the SEC (all joking aside) we have over the many years provided our clients Bordeaux wines that are and will be good investments down the road. But wine is

“I was very impressed by the quality of what I found here and the Bourgogne is a knockout for its level.” – Allen Meadows, Burghound Pierre-Yves Colin, Thierry Pillot, Thomas Pico, Arnaud Ente, all of these vignerons weren’t ‘known’ until they were. For all these guys, there was a point in time where they were making wines of superior quality,