Uncategorized

To all Wine Exchangers, It has been nearly six years since we were first introduced to the wines of artisan producer Chris Berg and his Roots label. It has been an interesting road and it’s never a bad thing to find someone who makes truly soulful Pinot Noir and doesn’t take himself too seriously. How […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s here! We’ve all been waiting for the 2004 Lusseau St. Emilion Grand Cru to hit our shores. We were getting thirsty. Talk about the perfect Bordeaux for the here and now at a sensational price, the 2004 Lusseau offers big-time flavor and complexity from one of Bordeaux’s greatest winemakers, with […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Surely a good many of you have traveled to the wine country and visited wineries.  You go in the ‘front door’ and you see exactly what they want you to see, taste wines that are ‘only available at the winery’, and probably get pitched to get on their mailing list/club.  Tourism […]

It’s our last day in France, but the memories of 2015 Bordeaux are still clearly etched in my mind. We know many of you are curious as to what we thought of the wines. So, from my (tiny) hotel room in Paris I thought it prudent to jot down a few bullet points of the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “ I’ve been beginning to feel that the Sauternes 2005s are turning out to be better than they showed on release, nudging the 2001s for quality, if perhaps not quite surpassing them at the very top end… the 2005s come from a lower base of expectation (in part because the reds stole […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Dave Corey is one of those wine-geek types that seems always intrigued by the next challenge.   In fact, he may have a few too many irons in the fire as he makes more than 30 different wines among four labels!  He works a variety of terroirs in the Santa Barbara area […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Being the first to discover the next hot Barolo ahead of the crowd gives you ‘street cred’, but only if people remember that when the winery starts getting accolades.  But it is also mostly academic.  Most folks aren’t drinking Barolo every day anyway.  Heck, even the Piemontese don’t drink Barolo every […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Seems like it was only a couple months ago that we featured the previous vintage of this world-beating Ribera del Duero red. And, it in fact, was December. Looks like things are moving fast at Hacienda Monasterio, but with good reason, the wines are phenomenal. Do we still need to harp […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “This is a fabulous set of wines from Habit and proprietor Jeff Fischer. Native fermentations, aging on the lees, manual punchdowns and low levels of new oak are some of the stylistic choices that allow the flavors to emerge with striking purity in these delicious, incredibly pleasing wines.” – Antonio Galloni […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Attenzione! This is an Oreno alert… Tenuta Sette Ponti is one of Tuscany’s benchmark producers. It is also one of Tuscany’s most consistently outstanding producers and Oreno is their top wine. Since 2008, the wine has received 95-97 points from James Suckling, including 97 points for this 2013, of which he […]