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To all Wine Exchangers, Think of this as an early warning.  The 2014 Pinot Noirs from Oregon are upon us, and they’re terrific.  This first wave of ‘value’ 2014s is arriving, and we feel the vintage is pretty special.  “Hey, they just came out, so I have some time, right?”  Well, not really, because, in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Here’s the fact. If you were to create a hierarchy of all the wines in the world, Bordeaux’s First Growths would be at the top of the pecking order.  And, of those five First Growths, Chateau Latour, in the opinion of many, reigns supreme. A few years back, Latour’s director, Frederic […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Time to get your Aglianico on! OK, first thing’s first, what’s Aglianico (ahl-YAH-nee-koe)? Glad you asked, because that’s why Al Gore invented the Wikipedia which, I must say, works for me. “The vine originated in Greece and was brought to the south of Italy by Greek settlers. The name may be […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What’s less than ridiculously cheap? I guess it’s laughably cheap! Almost exactly one year ago we featured the insanely brilliant 2013 Herencia Altes Garnatxa Negra, a wine that sold for $9.98 a bottle at that time, shattering all concepts of value we might have previously had for a red wine. Well, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It was a big deal when Jackson Estates bought Pinot Noir superstar Siduri and also the Novy Family wines last year. So when the Jackson Family announced that Adam Lee who, along with wife Dianna built the Siduri and Novy brands from the ground up, was going to stay on as […]

We’ve done a couple of previous pieces on what we see as the future of the pre-arrival/futures program in retail, something that has been an integral part of most major retailers’ program for as long as we have been doing this.  We have spoken on nuance, psychology, history, and even current events.  But it occurred […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They say what goes around, comes around, we just wish Etienne Boileau had come back around a little sooner! Thankfully he made it back just in time before ‘oyster season’ was over. We ran across this label a few years back, sometime after we had our Raveneau epiphany back in the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, I know, I know, Tempranillo two days in a row. But hey, “when it rains it pours”, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”, “insert next cliché here”. The point? You have to ‘strike while the iron’s hot” Doh! Another cliché… We’ve made no secret of our fondness for the wines from […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yup, it’s another ‘Travel Channel’ type deal. Today we are going to talk about a compelling, delicious red at a ridiculous price, from a place you’ve likely never heard of. Yes, the search for sensational values can take you down some roads that you may not have travelled before. But, in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Gualtallary strikes again! And, again, not with Malbec… You guys took full advantage of our offer a little while ago on the wine’s from Alejandro Vigil’s exciting El Enemigo project. Those wines focused on the emergence of Cabernet Franc as a real threat to Malbec’s seeming superiority. But today, heh, today […]