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To all Wine Exchangers, This. This is why we do this. To tell stories like this. To sell wines like these. Boutique Italian wine importer Oliver McCrum walked into the store the other day with a bag full of cool, exciting, topical greatness from…Valtellina. Valtellina? Where the $%&* is Valtellina? Here: Valtellina is crossed, in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today we’re offering up Part I of a trinity of truly amazing Spanish wine deals we inked over the summer. The boats have arrived and each wine will be equally compelling in its presentation, quality and price. For the money, we were knocked out, maybe even more than usual, by these […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When former Wine Advocate German wine correspondent David Schildknecht wrote that Markus Molitor’s 2011’s, “…proved to be the most exciting collection I have yet tasted at this address, and indeed among the most exciting of its vintage anywhere.”, I’m sure many of you thought David may have been some kind of […]

One of the more interesting things we have observed over the last several years has been the rise and fall of a number wine trends.  In the 70s, the Blue Nun craze hit the market.  German wine took years to recover from everyone’s impression of what they thought German wine was about… sweet and insipid.  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, I love Zin. Have I ever told you that? To me, as much as Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel embodies the true heritage of California grape-growing. Its ability to deliver rich, intensely flavored, lightly tannic wines makes it the perfect accompaniment for the cuisines of winter, wood-roasted meats, root veggies, the works. And, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What makes a ‘Super-Tuscan’? In the question lies the problem. There are no real rules for what may be considered a ‘Super-Tuscan’ other than the fact that it is approved by some random board as a wine ‘typical’ of the designation and area. That’s it. Oh yeah, it has to be […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Looking for that Cabernet to take you through November and December…and beyond?   Looking for that one bottle to bring to parties, buy by the case to hand out as gifts, or knock back on a weeknight with something from the nuker, and won’t break the bank?   No horsing around, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Since we were diligently counting our bottles on Monday and didn’t get a chance to throw you our regular Monday offer, here’s what was initially scheduled to go out on yesterday, we think you’ll dig it… Cabernet and Shiraz, two great tastes that taste great together! I could explain the whole […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Explaining the title would probably be a good place to start. The term ‘shady’ here isn’t referring to anything underhanded. The term is actually meant quite literally. But it was the cause of one of the better Cabernet deals we have come across this year. It all starts with one of […]

The holidays are fast approaching and, since the two mailing lists were combined, it's hard for us to know who has seen what with regards to the variety of pieces we have done outside of our normal daily offers and newsletter work.  It seemed a good time to go over our basic guidelines for the […]