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To all Wine Exchangers, OK, we know what you’re thinking. Is this $10 wine really 95 points? Y’know, it was to these guys, and we’re talking some big-time palates! The Decanter Wine Awards is a series of blind tastings around the world with judging by serious wine professionals, Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers and other […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Believe me, we were just as surprised as you are.  It truly was a shock when we got ‘the call’ and had the chance to score another batch of one of the Wine Spectator’s wines of the vintage…at its original price! Andrea Mantengoli and his brother started La Serena in 1988 […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Miss this morning’s Artadi offer? No worries, its ’94-point Spanish wines under $20’ Round II with this epic, ‘big city’, old-vine Garnacha. Even though we’ve been championing the old-vine Garnacha wines grown just outside the city of Madrid for quite some time, we recently ‘found religion’ in a number of new […]

To all Wine Exchangers, You say you want stories? Here’s a doozy for you… Some of you long-time Winex customers will be familiar with the wines of Artadi.  This cutting-edge Rioja estate helped to put the region back on the map in the mid-90’s with the release of their iconic El Pison and Pagos Viejos bottlings, […]

To all Wine Exchangers,   America’s Greatest Winery?   I gotta say, the résumé speaks for itself:   Appearing on the Wine Spectator Top 100 list on five separate occasions… An unbeaten six 100-point scores from Wine Advocate in the last decade… Nearly 40 wines over 95 points from Wine Advocate named Food & Wine’s […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Let us begin by apologizing for our typo mistake on the original email this morning. We didn’t double check our pricing on Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 1ere Trie 2015 before we sent and it ended up looking like we were attempting to deceive with a lower price on the email. This was […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are some outrageously great 2015 Bordeaux’s under $20 dollars that have just landed in our last shipment.  And as with the Puygueraud we offered last week, this trio of wines are incredible vis-a-vis their price-point.   All three scored over 90 points and are made with the same attention to detail as […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Anyone that has been a part of the California wine scene has heard the name Mayacamas.  Purchased by Robert Travers in 1968, it was a visible member of the first wave of boutique California wineries.   Under Travers, the winery gained international fame, particularly for its Cabernets and their legendary longevity.  Arguably […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are many ways to deliver the message, but the message itself is constant.  The 2015 vintage in the northern Rhone is one of the best of our lifetimes.  The wines have plenty of classic ripe blackberry fruit, sexy mid-palates for the genre, and tender edges, refined tannins and exemplary balance. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, So, it’s baseball season, and you’ve got a guy that has hit home run after home run.  What are you going to do…bench him?  Of course not!  We feel the same way about Jean-Marc Lafage, a vintner who has had a great record over the years and, over the last eighteen […]