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To all Wine Exchangers, What is a Super Tuscan?  Tignanello, Ornellaia, Sassicaia, and Solaia.  Everyone pretty much agrees that these iconic efforts are what started the whole discussion about having their own category because they were something beyond what had been done before.  After that, it starts to get a little murkier.  We read several […]

To all Wine Exchangers, On my last buying trip to Bordeaux in March I was fortunate to book a few days stay at Chateau Cantemerle.  This estate is truly one of the most picturesque chateau in all of the Medoc with its park-like setting and spacious grounds; truly a magnificent place. One morning the director […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When it rains, it pours. We’ve just received another shot at one of the greatest Australian wine deals we’ve ever been presented. There’s Shiraz and then there’s…SHIRAZ. I can count on one hand the number of wines that are SHIRAZ. These wines are not only the top of the food chain […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yeah they had us at the Ruché, but we were thrilled by two other efforts from this house.  The Montalbera Grignolino d’Asti Grigné 2013 was a beautifully done rendition of this relatively underexposed Piedmont grape. Light in color yet with a surprising viscosity to the lifted, nervy fruit, this is a […]

To all Wine Exchangers, So, is this going to become an annual thing? Amazing Chablis from one of the region’s hottest new producers hitting the market at a sensational closeout price? I hope so. For serious Chablis fans out there, Patrick Piuze needs no introduction. Many Burgundy geeks already know his background over the past […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Lisini is simply crushing it right now. It’s hard to find a Brunello property more adored by a wide spectrum of consumers and pundits, on a more consistent basis. And when you taste the wine, you see why. I was blown away by the 2010 Lisini Brunello di Montalcino at the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Jim Suckling has nosed out another rock star value from South America for you. One thing you can always count on with Suckling, the wines he digs are wines that taste good. Dude doesn’t a have lot to prove. After being one of the premier global wine critics for the last […]

To all Wine Exchangers, With all of the wine choices out there these days, we have to be cognizant of not falling into some sort of pattern.  There are new areas performing all the time, vintages change and there are fresh, new faces on the scene regularly.  Yet with all of that, it’s still hard […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If you wanted a history of how premium wine developed in the South of France, after centuries of producing oceans of utilitarian juice, following Puech Haut would be a great way to do it.  Back in the mid-90s this house was one of the first of the ‘new and improved Suds’ […]

To all Wine Exchangers, A number of you out in wine land might remember the days before cell phones.  A few of you might even remember back to watching T.V. for the first time.  Many new things have come along in the last few decades that are simply now such a part of everyday life […]