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To all Wine Exchangers, The domaine of Christophe Billon is one of those tiny, unassuming properties that you’d bump into all the time in a place like Burgundy except for one thing, they’re in Cote Rotie.  Actually, many collectors look at Cote Rotie as essentially the Burgundy of the northern Rhone, what with its refined, […]

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, I bet you thought we were done. Yeah, I bet you thought we were done unearthing MORE Red Burgundy deals from the epic 2015 vintage. We weren’t.  We aren’t. Though both 2016 and 2017 will be producing a number of delicious wines that will be on the market in the coming […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today?  The newest release of a Winex staple for years, a brilliant blanc from Bordeaux that kick-started an entire genre!  But what’s different about this blanc is that it hails from sweet wine country, Sauternes.  And it doesn’t come from just any Sauternes house, but one of the top estates in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Swiss entrepreneur Silvio Denz bought Chateau Faugeres from Corinne Guisez back in 2005 and has never looked back.  The winery, under the guidance of Michel Rolland, was already making some of the finest wine on Bordeaux’s Right Bank prior to the sale, but Silvio wanted to ‘kick it up a notch’ and has done just that. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Sorry for the ‘cut and paste’ today but when we started to come up with a way to tell the story of Les Pallieres, one of the legendary estates in Gigondas, we began to reference the background history from importer Kermit Lynch himself and then just said, ah screw it, why […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If you’re a bargain Cabernet drinker (like most of us) you should thank your lucky stars for Australia. With a 100+ year track record of growing and producing Cabernet Sauvignon, Australia is just as comfortable with this King of red grapes as the Napa Valley, though they’re not as inclined to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, One Thursday morning we were treated (OK, yeah, it’s work) to a lineup from the estimable estate of Bernhard Ott.  Our reference to the ‘Wizardry of Ott’ was not only to make a tongue-in-cheek connection via a phonetic similarity to a popular story, but, man, the guy is something of a […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Chateau La Prade is located in the Cote de Francs, which is the smallest of the Bordeaux appellations, occupying only around 1000 acres on the highest slopes of the Gironde (Right Bank), halfway between the valleys of the Isle and the Dordogne, to the east of Saint Emilion.But what really makes […]

To all Wine Exchangers, As we’ve ‘waxed’ about before in these pages, Altos Las Hormigas is a ‘dream team’ project consisting of several major players, including: Alberto Antonini- Global Consulting Enologist extraordinaire. His client roster is too numerous to mention but I can pretty much guarantee you’ve consumed a bottle of delicious premium wine from […]