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To all Wine Exchangers, Lots of storylines here, but the important one to you folks is that here is a spectacular buy on a Napa Valley Cabernet from an outstanding vintage, with some bottle age, for a song.  Yes we have rolled out a number of killer deals this year thanks to the pandemic, restaurant […]

To All Wine Exchangers, Miss the Judd’s Hill? Well then, heck fire, do NOT miss this Last Call on a trio of Killer Cabernet Deals.   All three of these wines are at the end of the line for us, no more to be had…and with 2020 shaping up to be a non-vintage in Napa […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If it seems like we have talked quite a bit about Tolaini’s wines over the last couple of years, guilty as charged.  These folks are hitting the mark on several fronts from their ‘traditional bottlings’ like Al Passo and Valdisanti to some bold ventures ’outside the box’ like their Cabernet-based ‘Legit’. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Nearly a year ago, we featured the great 96-point 2016 Chateau Meyney St. Estephe and sold out of it immediately. And for good reason, the wine is brilliant and the best-ever from this estate. Fast forward eight months and a recent article written by veteran wine journalist and guru Jancis Robinson […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Another year, another brilliant Chardonnay from El Enemigo.  Our top-selling ‘foreign’ Chardonnay is back with another exciting vintage! Alejandro Vigil is one of the world’s most decorated winemakers, having manned the helm as Chief Winemaker at Bodega Catena Zapata since 2007. During that time, he has crafted some of the greatest […]

To All Wine Exchangers, Well, dang, November’s here!  It’s never too early to start thinking about getting your gift-giving together, especially with the freight companies already experiencing delays and, as the packages mount, their on-time deliveries will be taken to task.  Start scheming, start planning and let us help you make this ‘sheltered’ Holiday the best […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Sometimes you find crazy deals in the oddest places, and for the silliest reasons.  Of course, ultimately getting the deal trumps everything, but it’s OK to chuckle at the reason it came about.  This is one of those times. Albino Pestoni emigrated from a Swiss town near the Italian border to […]

To All Wine Exchangers, As we said in our last update some six months ago, in the unpredictable world of fine wines, Brunello is perhaps the most predictable.  Serious Brunello buyers come out when an epic vintage comes along and buy heavy, then disappear until the next top-flight vintage.  You could say that about almost […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back when we started in 1982, you could buy good Napa Cabernet for around $10.  A lot has changed in 38 years, including exponential jumps in Cabernet prices here at home and a lot of previously unheralded areas outside the country raising their game substantially.  In recent times, it has been […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Chanin’s back with another sensational deal! We’ve done great (and so have you) with Chanin’s 2014 and 2015 Sanford & Benedict Pinots in these recent missives so when I got the call the other day from Gavin wanting to know what else we could do I thought it best for us […]