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To All Wine Exchangers, Well, dang, November's here!  It's never too early to start thinking about getting your gift-giving together, especially with the freight companies already experiencing delays and, as the packages mount, their on-time deliveries will be taken to task.  Start scheming, start planning and let us help you make this 'sheltered' Holiday the best […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Sometimes you find crazy deals in the oddest places, and for the silliest reasons.  Of course, ultimately getting the deal trumps everything, but it’s OK to chuckle at the reason it came about.  This is one of those times. Albino Pestoni emigrated from a Swiss town near the Italian border to […]

To All Wine Exchangers, As we said in our last update some six months ago, in the unpredictable world of fine wines, Brunello is perhaps the most predictable.  Serious Brunello buyers come out when an epic vintage comes along and buy heavy, then disappear until the next top-flight vintage.  You could say that about almost […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back when we started in 1982, you could buy good Napa Cabernet for around $10.  A lot has changed in 38 years, including exponential jumps in Cabernet prices here at home and a lot of previously unheralded areas outside the country raising their game substantially.  In recent times, it has been […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Chanin’s back with another sensational deal! We’ve done great (and so have you) with Chanin's 2014 and 2015 Sanford & Benedict Pinots in these recent missives so when I got the call the other day from Gavin wanting to know what else we could do I thought it best for us […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We interrupt this normal Friday Bordeaux offering to bring this special presentation! Over the years, I’ve been traveling to Bordeaux on a regular basis and in that time, I’ve had some incredible experiences tasting (and drinking) some of the region’s greatest wines.  But back in 2007, I decided to venture out […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back in 1995, the team at DeLille Cellars, one of Washington’s pre-eminent producers of Bordeaux-inspired red wines, wanted to do something different. They’re ‘different’? Since the winery was Bordeaux-inspired from the get-go, the team thought it apropos to create  a wine that paid homage to the famous Bordeaux Blancs, wines such […]

To All Wine Exchangers, Cold, rainy weather hit the southland yesterday and we couldn’t have been happier.  The rain washed away months of grime, smoke, you name it, that had collected and we all woke up this morning to a different world, fresh, crisp…winter is coming. And it really does feel like the holidays are […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It has been a somewhat unprecedented time for a number of reasons, not all of them positive. But one unexpected result of the last couple of years is that a lot of new and interesting labels have surfaced, perhaps in part because the market provided unique opportunities and, perhaps, because the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Fattoria le Pupille proprietor Elisabetta Geppetti is one of the pioneers of premium wine in the Tuscan appellation of Morellino di Scansano. She’s taken every step she could over the years to make the very best wine possible, starting with hiring Giacomo Tachis (the founding father of Tignanello and Solaia) in […]