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To all Wine Exchangers, This is a story that spans three centuries, from a place that is not the first one people think of when they are talking about California wine.  We are speaking of the historic Cienega Valley located near Hollister between Hwy 101 and the 5 Freeway.  Probably the only time most folks […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Clarendon Hills proprietor Roman Bratasiuk doesn’t speak very much. He lets his wines do his talking for him. Or should we say shouting? Clarendon Hills wines are unique. Nothing else tastes like them. Don’t try to group these into the ‘Aussie fruit bomb’ category, because they’re not. They also aren’t in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We love finding obscure producers vinifying under a rock somewhere and present them to you as the newest ‘find’, but sometimes you have to give the old guard their due when they deliver the goods. Alois Lageder is definitely part of the old guard, the winery having been founded back in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Domaine de la Mordoree’s winemaker/proprietor Christophe Delorme passed away last month. He was a passionate, energetic man dedicated to two of the lesser-known yet truly outstanding appellations in the southern Rhone, Lirac and Tavel. I’d met him multiple times, talked shop, and enthusiastically consumed his wines since we sold his first […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Every day we get up, come to work, and try to find the best values we can in the world of wine.   For the most part we do quite well.  But occasionally events unfold that create unpredictably remarkable buying opportunities.  There’s no way you could make this happen.  It can only […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Not to sound redundant, but nobody brings the value drama like the Spaniards.  If I were confined to that ‘desert island’ choice of only one genre of wine it would be Spain and, specifically, Rioja.  Why? Ageablility, versatility, dependability, all of the ‘ilitys’, delivering far beyond their typically modest price points […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When it rains it pours. And here we thought we were going to kind of cruise through July. No way. Quite the opposite. If you’ve checked the New Arrivals tab on our website you’ll see that we are being bombarded with brilliant wine in the middle of frigging summer. Including these […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They say don’t look a ‘gift horse’ in the mouth.  Now being city types we aren’t necessarily sure what that means exactly.  We don’t know all that much about horses.  But we do know about wine and are able to read between the lines a little bit as well.  The message […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We sent an offer on the 93 point VML Pinot Noir Russian River Valley 2012 a few weeks back with a lot of enthusiasm as well as a prediction that it would not last long.  It didn’t.  In fact 120 cases sold out in 48 hours.  Hey, with a Wine Spectator […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Did you know Caymus Vineyards and Winery just turned 41? Gosh, do I feel old… And after Chuck’s kid, Joe, just sold the winery’s Meiomi label to Constellation Wines yesterday for $315,000,000, I’d say there’s a bit of partying going on up in Napa today! How did they get $315,000,000 for […]