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I gotta admit, the ‘new’ Chile is pretty frigging cool. And it’s cool for one particular reason, the same reason why Priorat is cool, or Bierzo is cool, or the Languedoc is cool, it’s essentially re-discovering something that was here the whole time.

Fun to see a delicious bottle of wine at a hot price from an old (new) name. Some of you may remember the Gordon Bros. wines that we’d sold off and on over the years here at the store. Good, honest wines that were a bit ahead of their time in Washington and available at excellent prices for the quality.

Today we’re turning back to a property that we just can’t get enough of. We featured two tremendous library Nebbiolo wines from them before and now we’ll take a hard look at what actually put Malvira on the map…Arneis.

For those of you going through Esprit de Pavie withdrawal…fresh off the boat is Gerard Perse’s beautifully made 2014 and it’s a stunner once again!

We never stop looking out for the rare, amazing deal. These can come at any time, from anywhere, and we have turned more than our share of these kinds of opportunities over the years. But, frankly, given what is currently available in the marketplace, something has to be pretty spectacular to get our attention. This one is.

Oregon is ‘blowing up’ right now, and there’s a whole next generation setting up shop that’s adding some serious fuel to the fire. But no Oregon label may have more going for it than Maison L’Envoyé.

Mourvedre is a pain in the rear. We see it first-hand even in our own little vineyard out in front of the store. It’s one of the last to do everything, leaves, flowering, fruit set, ripening. You almost think something is wrong with it every year it’s so far behind the Grenache and Syrah. Because its late it is also

To all Wine Exchangers, Torbreck’s come a long way since the ‘early days’ in the mid-90’s of founder Dave Powell rummaging through old, decrepit Barossa Shiraz vineyards, nursing them back to health, then striking deals with the growers to use the fruit if he kept farming it. That policy served Dave well as that fruit […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yes, we managed to score another cache of one of our fastest-selling Rioja deals ever.  And, since our last report, the wine has picked up not one, but two 93-point scores!  If you weren’t convinced of this terrific modern spin on Rioja the first time there’s no way to avoid this […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “My visit to Fèlsina was one of the many highlights of my most recent trip to Chianti Classico. I tasted a wide range of wines with Giuseppe Mazzocolin and Giovanni Poggiali. Even after a long day, it was frankly hard to leave the tasting room. The wines were every bit that […]