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To all Wine Exchangers, After 20 years of waiting, finally. Great Western is part of Central Victoria’s Grampians wine region – locale for some of Australia’s most historic and highly regarded vineyards. Situated along the Western Highway, 450 miles west of Melbourne, Great Western lies between the township of Stawell and Ararat. Basically? The middle […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Now this doesn’t happen very often.  Getting a top-flight Pouilly-Fuissé from a great vintage at half its opening retail cost is a cause for celebration.  But don’t get too excited, this is a one-time shot. The Burriers have been a prominent winegrowing family in southern Burgundy since the 15th Century and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The 2015 Vieux Chateau Certan Pomerol is without a doubt one of the top wines of the vintage.  With a Wine Advocate score of 98-100 points, a Galloni score of 97-100 points, a James Suckling score of 98-99 points and a Wine Enthusiast score of 97-99 points, you get the picture… […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There is always the fear that an Olympic year will germinate all kinds of ‘Olympic’ themed promotions on the part of people trying to sell things.  We apologize in advance for our reference, but then we don’t really need an event to give us additional things to say about wine or […]

To all Wine Exchangers, One of our best-selling Chianti Classicos is back and, apparently, better than ever. We recently checked in on Antonio Galloni’s brand-new report on Chianti Classico in Vinous and were frankly shocked when we read it. Part of the headline? “Surprising 2014’s” Okay, but from what we tasted thus far, the 2014 […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ll open with the obvious question: How many 95-point, sub-$10 reds have you seen, bought or tasted in the last year? We can probably guess the answer is certainly ‘not many’, and likely ‘none’.  Well, the Santa Julia Reserva Mountain Blend Valle de Uco 2015 is exactly that, a gushing red […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This wine comes from a special place in the Languedoc, and has a story that’s a little different from most that we have told.  The place is La Clape, a classified massif, a “pile” of pebbles in Occitan, that was an island until the Gallo-Roman times before the Aude river decided […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yeah, even though our job here at Winex is to find you the coolest, newest, cutting edge values from around the word, we still do indeed have our ‘house’ wines as well, wines that consistently deliver a great bottle year in and year out, without fail. One of those wines is […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Do you remember when we sent the 1996 Bel-Air Lagrave? It was an instant sellout. Deals like that just don’t happen anymore!  Well guess what?  We were able to snag the last remaining bottles of the sensational ’96 and what’s even better…they’re in Magnums! Too cool!! 1996 was a great year […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The Bordeaux 2015’s are starting to arrive and although this is not the first 2015 we’ve offered, it certainly is one of the greatest values of the vintage. The 2015 Chateau Durand-Laplagne Puisseguin Saint Emilion was, as a future, one of our best sellers of the vintage… Why?  Well, typically, Neal […]