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To all Wine Exchangers, Carmelo Patti is one of the most respected winemakers in Argentina.  Migrating from Sicily on a small boat when he was just a baby, he would eventually become one of the instrumental figures in raising the level of quality in Mendoza back in the early 1980’s and to this day is […]

To all Wine Exchangers,   It was an interesting time in the mid-1990s, watching the south of France (Roussillon and Languedoc) realize they could take their sunshine, terroir and old vines and create world class wines.  We were able to chronicle those early days and were among the first on board with groundbreaking labels like […]

To all Wine Exchangers, One of Brunello’s hallmark estates is absolutely killing it right now.Is anyone hotter than Altesino? I tell you, it appears the property can do no wrong right now, and their always-outstanding wines seem to have kicked things up another level. It’s pretty easy to determine why.  Altesino was one of the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, At this point we will assume everyone has heard the one about how good the 2014 white Burgundies are in general, and how Chablis in particular had a superb harvest.  As a quick note, here’s a summary line from Wine Advocate’s Neal Martin who proclaimed, “…in respect to 2014, they have one of the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Looks like the Swiss have some serious ‘A’ game doing something else besides watches and banking.  Though, at this juncture, the Widmer family can probably say they’re truly Tuscan themselves. It was in 1981, when the Swiss couple Brigitte and Bruno Widmer fell in love with the, at the time, abandoned […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Did you miss the 1986 Bel-Air Lagrave?  Well, whether you missed it or not, have we got another chateau-direct jewel for you! For all us ole-timers, 1996 was arguably the best vintage of the decade on the Left Bank of Bordeaux, with maybe the exception of 1990.  It was a warm […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yup, if you missed this Spanish value star the first time around he’s your chance to, on this first day of the World Cup, score some for yourself. Your goal should be to grab a case or two of this reload of one of our most popular ‘slates’ ever from one of the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There is more than just a passing resemblance between the label on Paul Jambon’s lengthily titled Domaine du Pavillon de Chavannes Côte de Brouilly and one of our benchmark sources from the Cote de Brouilly, Chateau Thivin.  There is a whole lot of history as well, not to mention one of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “The Courbis brothers have hit a home run with these 2015s, the finest wines I’ve tasted from this brilliant estate…the single vineyard Cornas are incredible wines.” – Jeb Dunnuck The origins of the Courbis family estate date back to the 16th century but the real fireworks started once Dominique and Laurent […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They’ve done it again. Ho hum, another year, another incredible line-up of finely-priced wines from one of Italy’s white wine stars. The Schiopetto name is legendary among Italian wine producers.  The name is spoken of in their home region of Collio the same way Antinori, Gaja, Braida and Biondi Santi are […]