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To all Wine Exchangers, Chateau Senejac is one of the oldest and finest Cru Bourgeois estates in the Medoc, dating back to the 15th Century.  Situated in the Southern end of the Haut-Medoc just south of the appellation of Margaux, it a huge property of 350 acres yet only 90 acres are under vine.   It’s […]

To all Wine Exchangers, How do you follow up a legend?  The Faustino I Gran Reserva 2001 was one of the highest volume wines in our 35-year history, it got a 97-point score from Decanter Magazine as well as being named their Wine-of-the-Year for 2013.   What the press did was create a scenario where exponentially […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back in the early-to-mid-90s there was something of a ‘modest’ period for potentially great vintages of red Rhone wines.  Perhaps coincidentally, we started seeing a ‘new breed’ of wine emerging from the South of France.  About that time a number of vignerons came to the realization that, with the warm climate, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Man, the hits just keep coming.  When we were offered this amazing deal on what was already one of the finest Chardonnay deals on the planet, we were frankly speechless. …for a second. Then we calmly blurted out, “We’ll take it all!” Some of you may be familiar with the Ritual […]

To All Wine Exchangers, Wine Detectives. That’s kind of what we have to be once in a while.  Oftentimes, the true story of a property doesn’t pop out at you, the true significance of a wine doesn’t emerge, until you put the work in and figure it out for yourself. Especially with BURGUNDY.  So many […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Because of what we do, it is not unusual for us to be asked what our favorite wines are.  There are a couple of recurring scenarios that occur as we try and answer the question honestly and not sound like we’re too above it all.  If you have only tasted two […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Over the last 20 years, we’ve probably written up Les Grands Marechaux for the Stock Report more than any other Bordeaux chateau.  And the reason is simple, this estate is just so consistent year in and year out.  But what makes this wine even more special is the quality vis-a-vis the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s time for a Crazy-good Cotes du Rhone update. As we wrote a few months ago, we had ‘boots on the ground’ at last year’s Decouvertes en Vallee du Rhone tastings in the Rhone Valley with the intent to check out the highly anticipated 2015s, but perhaps equally with the intention to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Here we go, Part III of a Fantastic Feudi Blowout! Due to a number of events, not involving the consistently amazing quality here, this is our third and final round of offering some sensational pricing on several epic wines from the great Feudi di San Gregorio, one of the premier producers […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “This wine is almost too good to be true.”- Jeb Dunnuck writing for Wine Advocate It’s really pretty remarkable what Jean-Marc Lafage has done, and continues to do.  Vintage in and vintage out he makes some of the most compelling, character-filled, value-priced juice on the planet.  And, while the whole lineup […]