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To all Wine Exchangers, It has been an amazing run for West Coast Pinot Noir, and it looks like the good times are going to continue.  But every once in a while, you have to stop and take stock of where you are.  These are fun times for Pinotphiles with two epic vintages from California […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Sometimes you have to ask, how do we luck into some of these wines that cross our path? Webster’s defines serendipity as, “…luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for…” Yeah, that pretty much describes today’s offer. Never in a million years would […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today? Big-time deals on some big-time Cotes du Rhones. These aren’t your typical Cotes du Rhone wines. Saying that Mourchon or Xavier or Perrin’s Les Hauts de Julien is ‘just’ a Cote du Rhone is like saying a Lamborghini is ‘just’ a car. These are the top of their genre. The […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Ritual winemaker Rodrigo Soto and his Burgundy-inspired wines are back…and this time we’re talking Chardonnay. What he’s doing in these cool-climate vineyards in the Casablanca Valley is unprecedented, producing character-filled wines, full of energy, at prices half to a third his competition. Who doesn’t like a deal? And let me tell […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The hits just keep on coming from this historical wine stronghold.  Back in the ‘old days’ Fronsac was a rather prestigious appellations in Bordeaux.  All the best-looking chateaux were there, it was close to the ‘’big city” (Libourne) so your horses wouldn’t tire heading out for the day, and the wines […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This could qualify as a pretty good story from simply a script point of view.  You’ve got your main character, Lodovico Antinori, brother of Piero, from the 26th generation of Italy’s most famous wine family, stepping away from his brother to found Ornellaia in the early 80s.  The rest is history […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Good Lord, Jean-Marc Lafage, whatever you’re doing, don’t stop! This whole thing going on between Lafage and importer Eric Solomon is flat-out crazy. Wine after brilliant wine, at amazing price, have come from this dynamic duo of wine minds. First there was that Lafage Novellum Chardonnay 2015 we’re selling. For $10.98 […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When you look back into the history of California wine over the last five decades or so, there are many famous labels.  You’ve got the stars of the formative years back in the ‘60s and ‘70s like Mayacamas, Heitz, and Mondavi.  You’ve got labels that even precede that historically like Inglenook […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Think of this more as an announcement as opposed to a juicy sales pitch. Folks, here’s the deal. When this wine rolled in we researched the number of Pinot Noirs in the world that received 93 points or more from Wine Spectator over the last three years and sold for under […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Hartford Family Winery continues to be one of the great success stories in California viticulture…The Zinfandels are certainly among the top half-dozen or so Zinfandels produced in all of California.” – Robert Parker That’s coming guy from a guy who has tasted a lot of Zin, as have we. It’s legit, […]