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To all Wine Exchangers, It wasn’t that long ago that wines from northwestern Spain, called “green Spain”, were novelties.  You saw a little Albariño out in the market but not much else.  Bierzo and its native Mencia grape were pretty much unheard of internationally until Riojano outsider Alvaro Palacios came to the region and started […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back in March, we featured the 2009 version of this wine and it sold out almost instantly; and for good reason…the wine was spot-on delicious. Today, we’re featuring Clarendelle’s just-released 2010 and guess what?  It’s better! The Clarendelle label was created in 2002 by the grandson of Clarence Dillon, owner of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Y’know, Adam Tolmach’s story would probably make a pretty interesting movie. Adam’s one of the true Central Coast pioneers. He, along with Jim Clendenen (his early partner at Au Bon Climat) and Bob Lindquist (Qupé) was instrumental in the development of the Central Coast as a premium, viable wine-growing region. Their […]

To all Wine Exchangers, ”Two thousand ten has turned out to be a superb vintage for Brunello di Montalcino” – Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media “The 2010 vintage is a new benchmark for Tuscany’s icon wine, producing reds with wonderful intensity, structure, and energy.” – James Suckling, jamessuckling.com “These are certainly the highest scores I have […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We love the white wines from the Northern Rhone here at Wine Exchange.  Condrieu, Hermitage Blanc, St. Joseph Blanc, all profound and delicious. Problem is, most of the big-ticket wines that come from the likes of Guigal, Chapoutier, Delas and Jaboulet along with the tiny production wines coming from stars like […]

To all Wine Exchangers, New Zealand Pinot Noir is blowing up right now. A recent run of strong vintages provided ideal conditions to produce some very important wines that true Pinotphiles will embrace. I’ve never tasted Pinot this good from NZ, and Wine Exchange has been featuring NZ’s cutting edge producers since the mid-90’s. The […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Well, this is rather groundbreaking. It appears as if Chile is making another monster push qualitatively. We’ve seen the writing on the wall with wines like the Ritual Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir and Santa Ema’s delightful Cabernet Reserve 2010 that we’ve offered over the last few weeks. Definitely something in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, A few months back you guys bought hard on our incredible closeout deal on the 2009’s from Domaine de L’Edre, one of the Roussillon’s brightest stars. For your review, here’s the story of L’Edre from that offer: It wasn’t that long ago that we had to explain where the Roussillon was […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Prior to my last trip to Bordeaux, I combed through a number of offers and current stock lists in anticipation of my visit, setting up a number of tastings of older wines before I dove into tasting the 2014’s. One particular supplier always has some cool stuff, being that he specializes […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It seems like it was quite a while back (2010 to be exact) when Ruffino’s Tuscan/Bordeaux blend Modus received a scorching-hot review from Wine Spectator.  The writer then was James Suckling, and the frenzy caused by the 2007 Modus was certainly memorable. It was the wine version of the ‘perfect storm’.  […]