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To all Wine Exchangers, Chateau Bel-Air Monange 2010 – $200 Chateau Ausone 2010 – $1650 Chateau Beausejour-Duffau Lagarosse 2010 – $350 Chateau Clos La Madeleine 2010 – $39.98 What do these four Chateaux have in common? Everything, except the price! I’m a terroir nut.  For me, the study of why a wine tastes great in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What happens when one of Barolo’s superstars decides to do something a little different? Well, it’s news from the standpoint that this is a region and a people that don’t take change lightly.  Yet in 2011, the great Domenico Clerico chose to do something different, though, unless you know the man’s […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Nicky’s back! We’ve told the story in these pages before of Roche de Bellene founder Nicolas Potel, the son of Gerard Potel, the former owner of Domaine de la Pousse d’Or in Volnay. When Pousse d’Or was sold in the 90’s Nicolas, with wine coursing through his vines, established his own […]

To all Wine Exchangers, OK, stay with me on this one, it’s a doozy… Today we’re featuring two wines that are actually other wines. Confused? Don’t be. This happens all the time. Fact of the matter is its pretty common for wineries to produce an alternative private label of their wine for a particular entity. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Easily one of the top estates in the Languedoc (if not southern France), Chateau Puech-Haut…produce(s) a number of cuvees, with their entry level efforts representing superb values, and their top cuvees being able to stand toe to toe with the greatest wines in the world.” –Jeb Dunnuck, eRobertParker.com #211 Yeah, we have […]

It’s tough to know how to broach a subject like this.  We know a lot of restaurateurs, but it’s primarily from the best places because they are the ones that have active wine programs and are at some of the wine events we attend.  Here in the O.C., however, when we go out to dinner, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s another installment of our ongoing series, “St. Aubin & You”! As we discussed in our piece from a month or so ago, St. Aubin is THE appellation for top, value White Burgundy, though prices on wines from this appellation are steadily on the rise. That being said, these are wines […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Thierry Germain is a nut. A wonderful, caring, driven, passionate nut. Though his family’s winemaking background was rooted firmly in Bordeaux, Thierry decided to set up shop back in 1991 in, of all places, the Saumur-Champigny region of the Loire Valley. Now let’s get one thing straight. This was prior to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, And, we’re off! The 2015 Bordeaux Futures campaign kicks off in earnest today with a couple of brilliant new releases from one of the most dynamic new enterprises in Bordeaux. Hong Kong financier Peter Kwok’s new company, Vignobles K, is a no-expense spared operation dedicated towards getting the absolute most out […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In typical Winex style, here we are today presenting a new-release Luxury cuvee Chateauneuf from one of the region’s greatest vintages ever at a super-reasonable price. Just another day at the office. Jerome Quiot is one of the largest landholders and most influential political figures in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. And, with his 125 […]