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To all Wine Exchangers, Man, I don’t think I’ve tasted a more ravishing, riveting bottle of Sangiovese in the last year, and I taste a lot of Sangiovese. This Piaggia Carmignano Il Sasso 2015 is just a mind-bendingly great bottle of wine.  How good? I think maybe once or twice a year I have to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When we tasted through the 2015 Chateauneufs, we were pretty convinced that this was an epic vintage. Needless to say, we wasted no time in casting our net…wide.  Sure we played nicely with the local sources when it made sense.  But money is an object and we love the opportunity to […]

To all Wine Exchangers,   UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming response to this morning’s offer (we sold out in 30 mins!) we immediately contacted our sources in France to see if there was any possible way we could get a smidgen more to sell to you. After short deliberation and a few well placed phone […]

Funny. I was reminded by how long I’ve been in this business when I walked past our front counter yesterday. At the counter, displayed proudly, was a powerful stack of the Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port 2003, one of the greatest ports produced in the last 100 years. It reminded me of when I first started […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When you’re worth about 300 million dollars, are an avid wine-collector and just happen to be the Secretary of the Treasury of the world’s largest economy, what wine would you bring to the President of the United States son-in-law’s house? How about a wine made by the rising superstar Benoit Touquette, known […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today’s offer? Truly one of the ‘wow’ wines we’ve tasted in the past year. Rhone Insiders already know Jerome Bressy’s name, as well as the name of his Domaine Gourt de Mautens. But, I must say, one has to be deeeep inside to know it. The wine sees little to no […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Winex Burgundy aficionados will know this domaine, but maybe not today’s wine from that domaine. We’ve enthusiastically sold Frederic Esmonin’s wines since the late 1980s, when holdings that the family had leased on metayage (a kind of multivariable sharecropping) came back under the family’s control, including parcels of important Premier Cru […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Even in an industry as laid back as the wine business, there are occasional significant flashpoints.  One of the more significant experiences along those lines was the Mount Veeder Winery Cabernet 1990.  When this wine got a ‘94’ point review in the Wine Spectator in the fall of 1993, literally all […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What’s this? The Trimbach Riesling Frederic Emile Alsace 2008 being released more than a year after the 2009? Yup. The Trimbach’s march to the beat of their own drum, releasing their top cuvees only when they feel the wines are ready and not a moment later.  No ‘market pressure’, no ‘money […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The Haut-Medoc is actually a series of several different locales along Bordeaux’s Left Bank, each spot providing some spectacular value in top, sunny vintages, when they’re unique terroirs can really shine.  In a vintage like 2015, these wines manifest more like their ‘neighbors’ to the north and south but at some seriously crazy pricing. […]