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To all Wine Exchangers, “As for the wines, they are gorgeous. At the end of the day, that is what counts.” – Antonio Galloni Just when you think you’re doing everything right, there’s someone out there that’s looking to rain on your parade. Poor Kevin Law. This guy has been through the meat-grinder when it […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Talk about a great Riesling deal that came out of nowhere! Funny thing is, with Frankland Estate we are speaking in a pretty literal sense.  While we respect Frankland (we see them as one the top five Riesling producers in Australia and definitely a major league talent on the world Riesling […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We have told this story early and often.  We’re telling it again.  Is it because we are running short of material?  Hardly.  This is simply one of those wines that has kept ‘giving’ since we worked with some of the earliest versions roughly a decade ago.  Amancaya may be the name […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Try the most "simple" Pinot Noir Molitor is bottling and you are already in the upper class of German Pinot Noir. His three starred Pinots are mind-blowing and can compete with prestigious Grands Crus from Burgundy.” – Stephan Reinhardt, eRobertParker.com OK, honestly, it doesn’t get any cooler than this. If you’re […]

To all Wine Exchangers, During his first 20 years of operation, Marietta Cellars’ founder Chris Bilbro did everything himself – sourcing the grapes, making the wines, and even selling the wines. Today the winery, named after Chris’ great Aunt Marietta, is a little different with Chris’ sons (Jake and Scot) at the helm.  But the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are a few facets to this story.  You’ve got the always interesting and elusive topic of affordable Burgundy. You’ve got a domaine that has provided us with a number of really juicy, well priced examples of that endangered species.  Finally, both of those facets are brought to a new level […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The second vintage of our intergenerational, transgeographical, polyexperiential Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2013 Holler is a tour de force. – Sparkman Cellars Little did we know that when we bought this rock-solid slam-dunk Cabernet value from Washington state’s Sparkman Cellars that all heck would break loose a few months later. But hey, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We here in America love the phenomena known as a “world vintage”. It’s what aficionados and collectors truly seek out when buying wine as an investment for their cellars. When everything is great (Bordeaux, Burgundy, Napa) the ‘year’ has an even healthier reputation. "Is it good?" "It’s a 2015, buy it!" The […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Not long ago we did a piece on the exciting new Beaujolais project from Joseph Drouhin in conjunction with the Hospices de Belleville.  Even as long as we have been doing this, we still get surprised, and that trio of Beaujolais really got our attention.   But within the context of that […]

To all Wine Exchangers, La Vieille Cure has become one of the darlings of Bordeaux over the past thirteen years going back to the 2000 vintage when Robert Parker gave the estate its first 90-point score.  His first sentence of his review was “Wow, what a sexy wine!”.  Since that review this chateau has never […]